overclock to about 2.2

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Name: pckiller
Date: February 15, 2006 at 22:16:09 Pacific
Subject: overclock to about 2.2
OS: xp sp1
CPU/Ram: 2800+/1g

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I was playing a few games and throughout the games every few seconds it seemed slightly choppy, i dont have any money to update my video card. Nvidia mx-420 64mb. the card meets my system req. I have an athlon 64 2800+ running clock speed at 1.8ghz I have never overclocked before and would like to know if i OC the cpu to around 2.2...would i notice a difference. the games are ER and Lock-On combat. ER requires a 1.2 p4 or equivelent AMD, which i have. It also requires a 64mb t&l capable video card, which i have, barely. but it says that if you dont have a t&l capable card, that the system requires a 2.8 p4 or AMD equivelant cpu for software rendering. I wanted to give an extra boost but i dont know anything about overclocking. I have an asus K8N board, all overclocking is done in the bios. So can anyone tell me what to do?
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Response Number 1

Name: Cobra_R
Date: February 16, 2006 at 04:48:03 Pacific
Subject: overclock to about 2.2

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It's your graphics card that is you giving you the bottleneck.
OC your processor especially when it comes to games will do you little if you don't have a decent graphics card.
My advice would be to save up some cash and at least through in a Nvidia 6200 graphics card in there. these graphics cards are really afforbable now and you will notice a big diff over the graphics card you got in your pc now.
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+
2GB Dual Channel DDR 3200
Nvidia 6800GT
SATA II 250gig 7200rpm 8mb cache
Gigabyte Nforce 4 SLI

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Response Number 2

Name: jam
Date: February 16, 2006 at 04:59:24 Pacific
Subject: overclock to about 2.2

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You have a decent board/CPU & plenty of RAM...the weak link is your outdated video card. Overclocking is NOT gonna help. The MX-420 is the bottom of the line in the GF4 & in reality, it's nothing more than a rebranded GF2. It wasn't a good card when it was introduced several years ago & it certainly hasn't gotten any better. Time to save up for a new card....

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Response Number 3

Name: Sabertooth
Date: February 16, 2006 at 07:55:58 Pacific
Subject: overclock to about 2.2

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"i dont have any money to update my video card."
No problem, give me your CPU tower, in exchange, I'll hand over my 6800.....LOL
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