Overclocking a old PC.

You'll probably want to provide more information such as the motherboard model, CPU model, etc.

On top of that, despite the CPU being slow to begin with why the need for an overclock? Chances are the computer is bottlenecked by something else such as the RAM. :)

youllbelost said:

DarkNovaGamer said:

You'll probably want to provide more information such as the motherboard model, CPU model, etc.

On top of that, despite the CPU being slow to begin with why the need for an overclock? Chances are the computer is bottlenecked by something else such as the RAM. :)

Just about to dump the crap. so need to make use of it.



Plz ask for any details you need.

Can you provide me with the other system specs such as the amount of RAM, speed of it, what graphics its using, etc?

Like I said, depending on the system specs overclocking the CPU may not make much of a difference if lets say your RAM is whats bottlenecking the PC.

madtownidiot said:

In old computers like that, the IDE HDD is usually the bottleneck.

Depends on the speed/cache on that Hard Drive as well. I suspect RAM here as most older computers tend to have DDR RAM or DDR2 667 which won't receive that much of a boost from an overclock. Especially if you are also lacking in the amount of RAM.

Most of those prebuilts have locked Bios for the CPU and Ram.
You can see the info but can't change it.