Can I overclock my CPU and how do I do it?

[GoldenTWM]

If I can, I'd like to know how and hopefully in the easiest manner. I can play a majority of games like BF3 on high settings without much issue, but for example, CS:GO on max is 100% perfectly fine, and I know CS:GO isn't exactly needy when it comes to power, but I figure it's a good comparison for this because when I try to play Wind Waker on a Gamecube emulator, I notice my CPU Usage shoots up to like 98% and the game runs really shitty.

I'm not entirely sure what you guys need to know so here's some speccy
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[GiGaBiTe]

[QUOTE=GoldenTWM;44129454]when I try to play Wind Waker on a Gamecube emulator, I notice my CPU Usage shoots up to like 98% and the game runs really shitty.[/QUOTE]

Any emulator is going to eat up 100% CPU time, no matter what CPU you have. Emulators allocate the largest available CPU time slice to themselves because they have to emulate an entire something else on the host CPU, which takes up a considerable amount of resources.

Emulating a 485 MHz PowerPC CPU is no easy task, neither is emulating the custom ATI GPU.

As for overclocking, your options are limited. The E8xxx series is multiplier locked, which means you can only overclock the FSB. Overclocking the FSB is tricky because not only is the CPU clock tied to it, but so is the RAM and sometimes the PCIe slots as well. On some budget boards, other parts of the motherboard can also be tied to the FSB clock, further exacerbating problems.

I wouldn't recommend overclocking because you aren't going to gain much more performance out of the rig for the risks. It also seems like you have a stock cooler from the rather high idle temperature, which you definitely don't want to be using for overclocking.

I would just opt to build a new quad core rig, especially if you want to be running demanding emulators.

[Snek]

try grabbing the [url=https://dolphin-emu.org/download/]newest dolphin version[/url] to see if that helps

I've been playing wind waker on my lappy in 1080p with a widescreen hack for as long as i can remember and iirc dolphin only uses two cores so look around for other people's settings too