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2 minutes ago, Spahapro said:
So i am interested in overclocking my cpu if it is possible.My cpu is intel core i3 3240 3,40 ghz,can someone tell me how far can i push my cpu?
Thanks in advance.

its not overclockable

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you can't overclock i3s

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2 minutes ago, Spahapro said:
So i am interested in overclocking my cpu if it is possible.My cpu is intel core i3 3240 3,40 ghz,can someone tell me how far can i push my cpu?
Thanks in advance.

Not very much at all, or not at all, depending on your motherboard.

 

Unfortunately your chip is locked in its multiplier

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You can't overclock that chip. Might could move blck but only by like 5 mhz which would net like maybe 300mhz

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2 minutes ago, Hunter259 said:

You can't overclock that chip. Might could move blck but only by like 5 mhz which would net like maybe 300mhz

More like 150MHz

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1 minute ago, Energycore said:

More like 150MHz

idk know off the top of my head thanks.

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2 minutes ago, Spahapro said:

Can you explain it please, thanks :D

I3's are not unlocked. (have a k at the end in the title)

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3 minutes ago, Spahapro said:

Can you explain it please, thanks :D

Don't bother. BCLK overclocking also overclocks your RAM, the SATA bus, the PCIe bus..etc and is generally not worth it.

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5 hours ago, Spahapro said:

Can you explain it please, thanks :D

Yes,  you need to go into the bios and increase the Base clock.  This is normally 100mhz. You need to overclock in very small steps.  Start off at 102mhz and go up 0.5mhz each time.  You should be able to get anything from 104-108mhz Base clock which will overclock your cpu and your ram by 4-8% :) I run a pair of Xeons that are locked and they do 104mhz. My better one in a single socket board can do just over 107mhz which makes a big difference when you have 8 cores. 

 

 

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28 minutes ago, Jumper118 said:

Yes,  you need to go into the bios and increase the Base clock.  This is normally 100mhz. You need to overclock in very small steps.  Start off at 102mhz and go up 0.5mhz each time.  You should be able to get anything from 104-108mhz Base clock which will overclock your cpu and your ram by 4-8% :) I run a pair of Xeons that are locked and they do 104mhz. My better one in a single socket board can do just over 107mhz which makes a big difference when you have 8 cores. 

 

 

base clock? srsly m8?

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3 minutes ago, Wolf585 said:

base clock? srsly m8?

Yes. On skylake I can get over 120 ez.  On 775 I can get nearly 600 on some chips. 

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