Overclock Q8200 quad core?

[Mokkan13]

Can I overclock noticeably without my Q8200 quad core running into any issues?
[url=http://i970.photobucket.com/albums/ae190/mokkan13/Specs.jpg]Speccy[/url]

I want a noticeable increase in speed, without going over say 40 degrees celcius while idling [B]without[/B] buying any extra cooling.. Is this possible or not?

[editline]04:14PM[/editline]

oops I meant to put this in Tech Support..

[odellus]

40C? Load? No.

[Mokkan13]

Edited OP.

I want my idle temp to never go over 40 degrees.

[editline]04:16PM[/editline]

Speccy was taken during idle.

[GiGaBiTe]

Just keep cranking up the FSB until the CPU reaches 40C idle. You might be able to hit 2.66 or 3.0 GHz, though the real thing that matters is the under load temps, they need to stay under 65C, preferably 60C.

[Mokkan13]

I''ve never overclocked so I was partly checking wether it was even possible to get decent temps with any reasonable increase in speed.

Thanks though, I'd like to hit 3.0GHz but I doubt I'll be able to.. :smile:

[GiGaBiTe]

I wouldn't recommend a huge overclock from 2.33 to 3.0 if you've never overclocked before. Raising the FSB also increases the RAM speed, PCI bus speed and several other things linked to the FSB either directly, or by a clock divider. The best case would be the PC not booting if you did something wrong, the worst case is you'd damage or fry something.

[Mokkan13]

How would I go about overclocking from 2.33 to 2.66?
I just googled and I'm sort of confused by what I'm reading..

Maybe overclocking isn't the best idea because of what I just said.

[odellus]

[QUOTE=GiGaBiTe;21666399]I wouldn't recommend a huge overclock from 2.33 to 3.0 if you've never overclocked before. Raising the FSB also increases the RAM speed, PCI bus speed and several other things linked to the FSB either directly, or by a clock divider. The best case would be the PC not booting if you did something wrong, the worst case is you'd damage or fry something.[/QUOTE]

lol huge overclock

[Milky]

[QUOTE=Mokkan13;21666690]How would I go about overclocking from 2.33 to 2.66?
I just googled and I'm sort of confused by what I'm reading..

Maybe overclocking isn't the best idea because of what I just said.[/QUOTE]

[i] basically[/i] you need to keep bumping up the FSB speed in the BIOS, your FSB speed is the frequency that your CPU runs at (aswell as other things), when you've put it up a small amount restart, go into windows, run a benchmark with a temp monitor running, if its all stable go in and bump it up more. If it isn't stable you need to put your CPU core voltage up by the tiniest amount.

[Mokkan13]

Tiniest amount being whatever the lowest voltage increase the BIOS [I]can[/I] do?
What's a good benchmark program?