Should i be over clocking?

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#1 hoosin91
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Should i be over clocking my CPU? At idle its temp is 25 and when playing a game its only 30-35. I havent overclocked it yet so should i? If i should, could you send me a link to a cpu overclocking application tnx Oh and its a 3.4ghz P4 CPU
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#2 RayvinAzn
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You don't use an applicaiton to overclock your CPU. Read up on overclocking a bit more before asking any more questions, you need to get familiar with the basics.
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#3 hooded1man
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I would look up the max voltages for the CPU and see how far you can push it. Cpu's work fine until the high 60's Celsius, so I would make sure it only gets to about 50 degrees on load.
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#4 s00kah
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I heart your comp hooded1man
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#5 hoosin91
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Hold on m8, iI do know a bit more than you think its just that i gotta go out in a minute and im rushing da typing. lol, So should i? Dont worry i know how to clock a cpu

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#6 s00kah
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Oh and yea ... you'll need some good cooling to OC and does you MB support OC ? I would suggest you change your CPU and get a dual or quad core, it's not that expensive right now.
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#7 RayvinAzn
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I would look up the max voltages for the CPU and see how far you can push it. Cpu's work fine until the high 60's Celsius, so I would make sure it only gets to about 50 degrees on load.hooded1man

This guy is asking for overclocking software and you're telling him to push his voltages to the max and see how far he can push it? You seriously think that's good advice?

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#8 hoosin91
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I heart your comp hooded1mans00kah

Sorry? Come again?

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#9 RayvinAzn
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Hold on m8, iI do know a bit more than you think its just that i gotta go out in a minute and im rushing da typing. lol, So should i? Dont worry i know how to clock a cpu

hoosin91

You asked for good software. You don't know how to overclock a CPU.

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#10 hoosin91
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I would look up the max voltages for the CPU and see how far you can push it. Cpu's work fine until the high 60's Celsius, so I would make sure it only gets to about 50 degrees on load.hooded1man

M8, I don't want to be doing that trust me! I donethat on a long time ago and it **** my computer. But tnx for the advice anyways.

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#11 s00kah
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LOL, don't OC with software ... use BIOS and to do so you need a mother board that supports OC. OCing with a software is just not the safe way to go.
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#12 hoosin91
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LOL, don't OC with software ... use BIOS and to do so you need a mother board that supports OC. OCing with a software is just not the safe way to go.s00kah

Yh, Thats what i done, I done it using da bios lol

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#13 hooded1man
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What I meant is find out the max voltages for your CPU and don't go past that. Play with the settings and see what you can get out of it. I didn't mean go put it to the max.

If its a application your looking for use nTune, you can get a slight overclock sometimes without increasing your voltage. But if you actually want to get anything out of an overclock just use the bios. Its all about trial and error, it isn't hard at all.

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#14 hoosin91
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What I meant is find out the max voltages for your CPU and don't go past that. Play with the settings and see what you can get out of it. I didn't mean go put it to the max.

If its a application your looking for use nTune, you can get a slight overclock sometimes without increasing your voltage. But if you actually want to get anything out of an overclock just use the bios. Its all about trial and error, it isn't hard at all.

Every time i go to overclock in the bios my computer **** up! Help!

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This can only end poorly...
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This can only end poorly...WDT-BlackKat

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