Upgrading from a 6950

[Marine-RX179]

Yeah, SC2 is more CPU-heavy as far as I know.

My CPU is running on stock clocks, yes. As I mentioned earlier in the thread, I don't know much about overclocking. Do you perhaps have any recommendations ?

My CPU-cooler is an Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev. 2.

Go into bios, change CPU multipler from 34 to 40, save and exit. Then you should have the CPU at 4.0GHz. That's the easiest way to have moderate overclock. If you want higher overclock, you'd probably have to look at increasing voltages. And your CPU cooler should handle it fine for up to 4.5GHz as long as the voltage used is reasonable.

 

[guywithtwohands]

Go into bios, change CPU multipler from 34 to 40, save and exit. Then you should have the CPU at 4.0GHz. That's the easiest way to have moderate overclock. If you want higher overclock, you'd probably have to look at increasing voltages. And your CPU cooler should handle it fine for up to 4.5GHz as long as the voltage used is reasonable.

Haha, alright. Very simple!

I looked up some stuff after typing my last post, and found an entire guide dedicated to overclocking on the Asus P67. It says to start going to 4 GHz, but mentions that you also need to change DRAM Timings?

Update: I tried doing what you said, and it seemed to work just fine apart from the temperature rising just slightly, no big deal, though. Regarding core voltage; I saw that at 1.3-ish. Is this something I should be worried about?

I also tried turning on "OC Tuner" which is apparently automatic overclocking or something. This put my CPU at 4.4 GHz.