Hello all, I am new to the forums and have a question. Right now I seem to be at an impasse. I have never overclocked before but ever since hearing about it have wanted to try it. But before I do I have several quick questions. Right now I am runing a Dell mobo so I would need to buy a new one in order to OC from the bios. I already have one picked out, but I also do want to get myself a Razar Naga mouse and I can only get one or the other at the moment so I want to make sure I make an informed choice. The CPU I am currently running is a Wolfdale E6500 @ 2.93 ghz, which is its stock speed. I upgraded from the stock dell processor that came with my Inspirion 530s and noticed a big difference. But what I am wondering is how big a difference overclocking will actually make.
Right now I mainly play WoW, and from what I understand it is more CPU intensive then GPU, so I figured that a slight overclock would be pretty beneficial, with the new expansion coming and upgrades visually to certain parts of the game I want to run it was smoothly as possible on my budget. I do say a slight overclock because I have never done so before and dont want to get out of hand. From what I understand the CPU I have is a great overclocker, but I dont know if my expectations are too high since my knowledge of overclocking is trivial.
So, to summarize, do you think that overclocking may be beneficial in my position, and if so, how much might I need to overclock to see any real gains in a game like WoW that relies more in the CPU? Or should I probably not worry about it since I have an alright cpu and dont play anything too modern like Crysis and instead spend my money on that Razar I have my eyes on. Thanks in advance for any answers.
Right now I mainly play WoW, and from what I understand it is more CPU intensive then GPU, so I figured that a slight overclock would be pretty beneficial, with the new expansion coming and upgrades visually to certain parts of the game I want to run it was smoothly as possible on my budget. I do say a slight overclock because I have never done so before and dont want to get out of hand. From what I understand the CPU I have is a great overclocker, but I dont know if my expectations are too high since my knowledge of overclocking is trivial.
So, to summarize, do you think that overclocking may be beneficial in my position, and if so, how much might I need to overclock to see any real gains in a game like WoW that relies more in the CPU? Or should I probably not worry about it since I have an alright cpu and dont play anything too modern like Crysis and instead spend my money on that Razar I have my eyes on. Thanks in advance for any answers.