[codymackay]

Hey everyone I only recently signed up to this forum and it seems very nice. Anyways I really need some help with overclocking I'm new to it never done it before, but I have overclocked my graphics card which was fairly easy. I have an intel E6750 which is at 2.66Ghz. Now I enter the BIOS and I go to the area where you (I think not sure) can changed the CPU's clock ratio. Now I'm not sure if this is what you overclock with and I really have not much of an idea on how to overclock the CPU. Someone please help me I'm really keen to overclock. Someone with my motherboard would help alot because then I can relate to the BIOS.

Thanks!

[Carbon]

No, you'll need to change the FSB, not a "ratio" (this controls how the CPU and RAM are linked, leave it alone). Raise the FSB in 5-10mhz increments until you can't boot Windows, then restart and take them down and repeat until you're as high as you can. You can up the voltages by tiny amounts to get better overclocks.

[cheesepuff]

but remember, heat is not the big killer in overclocking, upping voltages it. that's very dangerous, but with core 2 duos, you pretty much never need to do that. what speed is your RAM? you only lower the ratio because when you up the FSB you ram speeds in MHz go up, (its also overclocking the RAM) and you use the ratio to lower the RAM speeds so that you don't damage them when overclocking.

[Carbon]

Well, upping the voltages does create heat. :p But yes, that's essentially correct.

[codymackay]

So I raise the front side bus. Where would I be able to find this in the BIOS? ( I know most of you would have different motherboards) Where would be the most common?

[codymackay]

ok im still really confused.... I found this thing in the BIOS called CPU host frequency, do i change that? and also i couldnt find anything under front side bus that could be increased