nGm@ze

A friend told me to overclock my CPU and I was thinking is it worth overclocking but firstly i find my CPU is enough for my daily use secondly i don't want to void the 3 year warranty and I build this rig last year. I want to ask if i overclock my cpu will i gain any slight performance increase? Also i don't want to shorten my life span.

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it depends on what you do, if you dont game then no, dont even bother.

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Zippit

You will get an performance increase...

You won't need your warranty anyways, honestly, did you ever see someone RMA a CPU?

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yes u will get some performance gain.

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Intel cannot prove either way if your chip is overclocked - they just have to take your word for it.....

Overclocking will give good performance boosts in general - that Q6600 should be able to get to 3.2ghz easily (mine will do 3.2ghz at stock volts even)

Have a look in your motherboards bios and set the CPU multiplier to 8 and the FSB to 400
That will then run at 3.2ghz and should be fine

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nGm@ze

someone said "some" performance increase, also will it shorten my life span cos i promise myself to not change cpu within 5 years also i got **** RAM will it drag my overclocking capability down?

Note' that i play games too, i play cod4 cod waw FSX GRID NFS... etc

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Zippit

It will shorten the lifespan but its normally around 10~15 years before a CPU stats so noticeably decrease in performance. Overclocked you may get 7~10 years out of your CPU.

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i would just take it to 3.0 and call it good.

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nGm@ze

i c, thx 4 answering anyways i sont think i want to overclock anymore since i will lose lifespan and i have kingston valueram which is not good 4 overclocking and got a ****ty APEX PSU

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QFT - it may technically void your warranty but you can still RMA it easily.
No the lifespan will not be reduced. That CPU will be outdated many many years after it starts to die...

and if you're trying to play FSX, you are going to need the fastest quad you can get your hands on.
...like i said it won't reduce the lifespan as such. Also, that kingston value ram is being underclocked at the moment. That RAM could potentially get the CPU to 3.6GHz without even being overclocked, so it's not a bottleneck.

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