[QUOTE="NeuroToxino"]

Did you try the online?

GuitarPAaron

It's not that fun

[QUOTE="cmdrmonkey45"][QUOTE="Elann2008"] That's either a bias comment, or a unknowledgeable one. NeuroToxino

[QUOTE="cmdrmonkey45"]Bad Company 2 is extremely mediocre. I can see why it was only 6 bucks. Elann2008

A bit but not worth the extra money/ferret-gamer

[QUOTE="cmdrmonkey45"]Overclocking made sense back in the 90s when CPUs were extremely expensive, slow, and did most of the work in games, and even a modest gain through overclocking could make a huge difference in your framerate.Now with CPU architecture mattering far more than raw clock speed, and most of the work in games being done by the GPU,it's just a gigantic waste of time to overclock, and it makes your CPU unstable and hot and shortens its lifespan for no particularly good reason. If your CPU is too slow, buy a new CPU.I'm not the one with out of date information. You are.OP, don't overclock, especially if you have no idea what you're doing. Considering you weren't even sure what kind of RAM your board takes, I doubt you'll know how to reset a CMOS jumper when something invariably goes wrong. hartsickdiscipl

I'm finding it laughable that somebody would come in here and try to tell someone who has personal experience overclocking a system almost identical to the OP's that it's not worth it. What the hell do you know? Obviously not that much. There are already games on the market that are too much for a stock E8400. While the Core 2 architecture is still good, and an E8400 is still a decent gaming CPU, it's totally worth it to overclock one. I'm going to list a few of the games that are out right now that will show significant performance gains by overclocking it. The primary reason is that these games utilize quad-core CPUs, so by adding 600 to 1000mhz to a dual-core chip, you make up some of the performance that you lack by not having a quad.

-World in Conflict (big performance gains for me when I went from 3.0 to 3.8ghz with an E8400, and even bigger when I got my PII X4)

-Supreme Commander

-GTA IV

-Bad Company 2 (massive difference)

-Call of Duty- Black Ops

-Dragon Age Origins

As far as the heat issue goes, you just have to know what the voltage and thermal limits of the chip that you're overclocking are. That information is easily accessible at the CPU manufacturer's website. It's not that hard to make sure that it's not hitting critical temperatures. It sounds like you've had a hard time with it in the past. Don't presume that everyone is incompetent, or that OC'ing just isn't worth it because it didn't work out for you or someone that you know. 10 minutes of research would show you that you can get big performance gains by overclocking,especiallywith a dual-core CPU. We're entering the age of the quad/hexacore CPU for gaming.. but good dual-cores like the E8400 can still put up a good fight, especially when overclocked.

Remember, this is coming from someone who HAS DONE IT. You just sound silly trying to tell people that it's not worth it. Especially when the TC is someone who is probably planning on upgrading their GPU to a GTX 460 or something stronger. With such a nice GPU he'll want more CPU speed to feed it data.