Overclocking

Posted on November 6th, 2009 by Raquel in Computing

Well I decided I wanted a faster cpu in my computer. Looking the options to fit my system I realised I was looking at just under £200!!!

So i thought ‘heck I used to be a mad overclocker’ so lets have a go.

I pushed the front side bus to 400, disabled cpu spread spectrum and set the ram to 1:1 ratio (giving it the stock speed of 800MHz) and rebooted…

To my joy the pc now runs at 2.8GHz instead of its design of 2.33GHz. I ran several stabilty tests (designed to stress the system) and all is well.

So for half an hours reading on my favorite overclocking site, Extreme overclockers I have saved near £200 and a faster pc.

Specs:
Asus P5Q-E mainboard
Intel Q8200 CPU
OCZ 4GB ram kit 2 x 2GB DDR2-6400
BFG Nvidia GTS250 1GB
OCZ Modstream 600 watt PSU
OCZ Vertex 120GB SSD
Windows 7 Professional

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