Jerm
join:2000-04-10
Richland, WA
| reply to Hockeytown
Bad idea...
Generally if you are going to overclock, you'll need a different motherboard than the one that comes with any Dell, Gateway, etc. Their BIOS's lack all the important settings that allow for overlocking in the first place.
Then you have to consider the power supply is going to be minimal/weak, and the RAM won't have any headroom. Oh and the cooling they include won't work either.
Basically you could buy a prebuilt system, but you'd have to throw out everything except the CPU and start over. Really you need to start out buying the right stuff from scratch if you want to OC.
Also, upping from 1.83Ghz to a little over 2Ghz is what a 10% OC? If you buy the right parts you probably can get a E6300 in the range of 3-3.4Ghz easy.
Also what do you plan on doing with this computer? If using it for games you'll need a much better video card anyway. |
