overclocking i5 750

[Smoovbiscuit]

I am new to over clocking, but would like to squeeze a little extra performance out of my machine. How much (if at all) could I OC my i5 750 with stock cooling? Should I just wait until I have the money for better cooling? I have a Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD4P mobo (I think thats what it is, its one of the p55A's)

 

[BikerEcho]

as you know the stock cooler isent good for overclocking. but that doesent meen that you cant overclock.
do you know how to overclock?

if so.
it is just finding a speed that doesent make the cpu tempature go to high.
i will recommend cinebench to tjek if it is getting to hot. also to see the difference in performance.
i think you will be able to get 3,5. might even higher if you do it right.

i had my core i7 920 at 4 ghz with stuck cooler.
howerver in game when my room temps are high, it whould be way to high temps.
it bsod on me twise in 1 week because of overheating, so i downclocked it to 3,6. no problem there.

you can also make the overclock unstable. like if the volt isent right, or if you have some cpu fetures set wrong.

 

[Smoovbiscuit]

I haven't over clocked before, but I have been watching videos and reading about it a bit. I think I'm going to hold off on it for now until I get a better case or actually need the extra speed. My computer is in a pretty small case with not the best airflow, and I don't want to burn out my processor. Maybe Ill practice on my slower computer first, its an AMD phenom 2 555 dual core 3.2, its supposed to be pretty easy to OC from what I hear. Thanks for your advice.