Core 2 Duo Overclocking Question

Ross1308 · 8 Mar 2007 at 23:01

Hi i have overclcocked my Core 2 Duo i was wondering could someone tell when you overclock does it take both of the Cores up Example - i have a 1.86ghz and i overclocked to 2.1ghz does that mean that its 2.1ghz per core or does it distribute it fairly over both of them. Thanks Ross1308

Jay123 · 8 Mar 2007 at 23:15

Hi, Yeh , Say 1.8ghz so 2x 1.86ghz both cores , If you overclock it will be 3ghz x 2 , so 6ghz ... 3ghz each core

Jay

skanky · 9 Mar 2007 at 06:36

Jay123 said:
If you overclock it will be 3ghz x 2 , so 6ghz ... 3ghz each core

not technically true.

Phunky Phish · 9 Mar 2007 at 12:18

Each core runs at 1.86GHz
If you overclock then each core runs at the overclocked speed, ie 2.1GHz
If you have programs like 3D modeling or rendering that are multi-thread aplications then they will run on both at up to 2.1GHz, being the same as 1 CPU at 4.2GHz.
But most aps are single thread, so they will only run at 2.1GHz, but if you have a dual CPU then you can have 2 programs (one on each core) running at 2.1GHz each!

Hope that helps