Can I speed up my processor by giving it extra power?
Can I speed up my processor by giving it extra power?
Hello everyone, I wanted to ask if i could overclock my cpu a bit,i know it won't be that much or maybe not at all but i have no idea ..so basically i have an i5 2400 with gtx 1050 2gb and 4gb ram ..i have a hp compaq 6200 pro microtower.. The main question is ....can i overclock my cpu? Is it even possible to achieve on this system?... If there's any other info to provide Let me know Thank you guys
You can't really speed up your processor because the parts are locked and a few extra steps could break other things like your RAM or motherboard. Also, the built-in fan is probably not good enough to handle the heat you would generate when trying to push the CPU harder than normal settings.
You have a locked CPU, so for all intents and purposes, no, there is no realistic way to overclock your CPU reliably. Not in a way that won't have a significant probability of adversely affecting the rest of the hardware, since there is no unlocked multiplier on that CPU. Besides which, the stock cooling you likely have would in no way be sufficient for overclocking even if it was feasible.
I know this worked before on older Intel CPUs (like the ones made before the Haswell chip), but back then, some systems were locked so you couldn't change them in the software. If your old computer is already prebuilt and that's how it is, I'd say there isn't much to do about it. You might check if the base clock setting is hidden or frozen in the BIOS settings. If it's stuck, fixing it is impossible. But even if you try, you probably won't get great results because the base clock setting is really sensitive. It affects how fast your CPU, cache, and memory run at once. Raising the base clock higher than 3mhz can make things unstable just by going from a low default speed to that point. Also, the stock cooling isn't enough to keep everything running smoothly.
That is precisely why I told you that it harms other parts of the machine. There isn't any reason to waste time on this issue anyway.
Thanks for your replies, but I really don't get how that works. What about Ram? I have some pretty slow sticks from a Lenovo C2D. They are listed on the box like an 8500F, and in Task Manager they show up as running at 1067 MHz. Is there any chance to make them run faster by overclocking them?
Sorry for taking so long to reply! Well, I had an old computer before. I overclocked my Dell Optiplex 755 with a Q6600 processor to 2.92GHz using setFSB. It was really easy and fun, and I used it all year (more than one year). So now I want to know if I can do the same thing on this new i5 with some software or tools?