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Strictly 4 my N.E.R.D.Z (sorry Tupac):

I’ve been building my own PC’s for about 4 years now, but have never tried my hand at overclocking until this evening. You may have seen my current configuration in a recent post. You may or may not know that the default clock speed of an Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 is 2.40GHz.

Following (mostly) a simple guide over at Tom’s Hardware made it pretty easy to overclock my E6600 to 3.0GHz, which is a nice 25% boost. I’m using the standard Intel cooler and cheap DDR2-667 RAM. The RAM is running at default voltages and timings, but at DDR2-533 speeds for now. CPU is set to 1.4V instead of the stock 1.325V. Its running about 2 degrees hotter than before at idle, so the Intel cooler seems to be handling it quite well.

It seems stable too, I’ve put it through 3dmark ‘06 and SuperPi and nothing has exploded. Yet. Apparently it will reach 3GHz at the stock voltage anyways. It would probably be worth my time going back into the BIOS and fiddling with stuff to get it as good as possible but its too late for that shit now

Update: Feck it, I went and fiddled around again. Now its at 3.2GHz (3240MHz in fact, pedants) and default voltages all round :). FSB frequency has been bumped up to 360MHz to achieve this. With the voltage back to stock, the CPU temperature has also dropped back to a normal level. The Milky Bars are on me!