Should i overclock and how?

[phillybrennan]

I recently purchased my pc and i was wondering if i dhould overclock it to get the max out of it but i do not know how to overclock.

My specs are........

RAM 4GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (2 x 2GB KIT)

Processor (CPU) AMD PHENOM II X6 1055T (2.80GHz/9MB CACHE/AM3/)

Motherboard ASUS® M4A87TD/USB3: DUAL DDR3,SATA 6.0GB/s, USB 3.0

Graphics Card 1GB ATI RADEON™ HD 5770 PCI EXPRESS - DirectX® 11

Memory - 1st Hard Disk 640GB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD6402AAEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)

Power Supply & Case Cooling 450W Quiet 80 PLUS Dual Rail PSU + 120mm Case Fan

Processor Cooling STANDARD AMD CPU COOLER

 

[Sleinous]

If you overclock you will void your warranty on the CPU, just something you need to take into consideration.

 

[Gorman]

Overclocking voids your warranty, thats consideration 1.

Overclocking is hard to do right, its a real skill which requires in depth knowledge of the processes and components you are tweaking. It takes a lot of research and even more trial and error, unfortunately the error part of it can result in fried components.

If you want to overclock at all you will need a better CPU cooler.

As a reasonably modern CPU you shouldnt have to overclock your CPU at all, but a good starting point is overclock.net, not least for all the cautionary horror stories.

 

[phillybrennan]

yea i dont want to viod my warranty so i shall leave it as it is thanks

 

[Phoenix]

If you overclock you will void your warranty on the CPU, just something you need to take into consideration.

Hey you've got a PCS picture !
And yeah I wouldn't reccommend overclocking unless you do some solid research about it first.

 

[Sleinous]

Yeah courteousy of Zepperz

 

[JSG10]

I think you answered your own question in the first place. "Should I overclock and how?" NO. Is the answer.
You've got a fairly potent 6 core processor there, what could you possibly be running that would require you to overclock it?

PS: Love the new avatar Sleinous Noticed it earlier but didn't comment

 

[Sleinous]

I think you answered your own question in the first place. "Should I overclock and how?" NO. Is the answer.
You've got a fairly potent 6 core processor there, what could you possibly be running that would require you to overclock it?

PS: Love the new avatar Sleinous Noticed it earlier but didn't comment

Speakin' of which, where is YOUR avatar? Dun dun dun!!!

 

[JSG10]

Ahh busted. I am avatarless Feel free to make me one lol and one of those cool sigs with all the company logos in too hehe

 

[Sleinous]

If I find a minute ill try knock u one up whats specs? pm me.

 

[Gishank]

The general idea is, if you don't need to overclock - then don't. As you won't see a performence benefit, if you still intend to overclock and get yourself an aftermarket cooler then you should give it a good couple of months to make sure that the processor is stable in entirety. ;D