How to overclock using 'nVidia control panel'?

Jango

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I am new to overclocking, and I wish to overclock my CPU from 2.33GHz to 2.66GHz. (Which I hope will stop the continuos freezing I keep encountering on COD Black Ops multiplayer).

I downloaded a program called 'nTune' for my nVidia control panel to do this.

I click on 'Adjust motherboard settings' and move the 'Reference clock (FSB)' slider from 333MHz, to 337MHz (the smallest increment I can do). I then click on 'Apply' and my PC freezes. I left it for 5 minutes and it remained frozen.

I would greatly appreciate any help. Thank you for reading. :)
 
Please dont use ntune... It doesn't work. I'm afraid there are no easy software based programes that work well for cpu overclocking. I would read some guides on overclocking. If you want such a small increase it may even be possable to just increase your fsb in the bios without adjusting anything else.
 
I take it that the main motivation for this modest OC is that you have realised that your current CPU, if your Sig is up to date, is under the min specified for the game. ( Intel based machines = E6600) Hence a possible cause for the freezing?

Take snaggster's advice to tweak it up a little :)
 
I tried NTune back in the days when I started out OC'ing. Never worked properly, and your far far better off going into the bios and making tiny increases to start out
 
back when I was new to using BIOSes entirely and didn't know how to OC I had to try ntune. Everything I did, no matter how slight, made the comp freeze till reset.

I dont know if its improved since then, but I wouldnt touch it again.
 
Thanks guys. :)

Essexraptor said:
I take it that the main motivation for this modest OC is that you have realised that your current CPU, if your Sig is up to date, is under the min specified for the game. ( Intel based machines = E6600) Hence a possible cause for the freezing?

Take snaggster's advice to tweak it up a little
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Yeah exactly, on Black Ops singleplayer it generally works fine (completed it with only one or two freezes). But on multiplayer however, it frequently freezes. :(

snaggster said:
If you want such a small increase it may even be possable to just increase your fsb in the bios without adjusting anything else.
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How exactly do I do this? Because there doesn't appear to be an option to change the FSB frequency; there's only an option to change the FSB multiplier.
 
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ntune is a piece of crap i used it back in the day and it give me nothing but TROUBLE STAY CLEAR...
 
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