Right now I'm running on - Processor: Intel Core 2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13GHz GFX Card: nVidia GeForce 8800 GTS RAM: 2046MB RAM PSU: Intel atx12v 550W Optical Drive: DVD±RW Dual Layer Hard Drive: 2x 250GB Serial ATA II Sound Card: Realtek HD Audio rear output Keyboard: Logitech G15 Mouse: Logitech G5 Monitor: Dell 22" 1680*1050 And what else might I need?
Why do you want a new processor now? That one is fairly good, and it might not be wroth it right now.
you could always get a quad core, another gig of ram if your running windows 32-bit or 2 more gb or ram if you have 64-bit.. not sure about the psu
a processor is different than a motherboard. and a CPU running at 150% of stock is not the same as the CPU at stock.
I wouldnt change anything, and definatly dont change your motherboard and/or your processor without changing drive, I made the same mistake with my dad's computer and I spend 3 hours with microsoft support reactivating windows... you have a really nice machine, but you cant overclock an intel chip, seriously. A motherboard wont change processor speed, it just changes compatibility of hardware. Rich kids these days.
I wudn't bother changing it tbh, pretty dam decent as it is. Up to you though if you have the money go for it.
Your CPU is fine, depending on your motherboard I'd switch to the new P35 series of gigabyte/asus. The new DS3/4 gigabyte's are doing great.
you can overclock intel CPUs... trust me on that. Mine is running 50% faster(and can easily do up to 60% faster) than stock. Atleast under XP 32bit. with 64 bit extensions enabled the additional stress on my systems northbridge is a bit excessive and I can only do 350FSB. For the record I'm not really all that rich(OK I'm the sole inheritor of around 5 million dollars but that's not until a few relatives die) I live a fairly middle class life(perhaps a bit below middle class, my family lives a good deal below their means) I have a job.
I think you have AMD and Intel processors confused, AMD works on x64 whereas intel works on x32. Intel cannot be made to go to x64 whereas AMD cannot be made to x32... the simple truth is that it is not possible to overclock an intel CPU because the hardware cannot take excessive stress to the memory and FSB. AMD has 64 channels in which memory can travel where 32 channels (x32) can only handle 32. Intel can only handle 4 gigs of memory whereas AMD can take 8 gigs.
things to note one AMD and intel have cross lisencing agreements. Pretty much as soon as one camp can reverse engineer the other's advancements they can use it - as such intel has been using 64bit extensions for a few years now. Admittedly though AMD's implementation is a better implemented. I'm running in a 64 bit OS as we speak. With an Intel CPU. And my system is overclocked. The only bottlneck to my overclock is my systems northbridge, NOT my CPU and not my memory. CPU is running on an undervolt. Memory is capable of running a fair deal faster as well(DDR2-800 3-3-3 is doable) other things to note. having a 64bit register(x86-64) does not give you more channels through which to run memory, it just increases the working data size over 32bit(x86-32) Furthermore, Intel systems can handle well in excess of 16GB and AMD systems can handle well in excess of 16GB as well. The capacity to handle memory is largely chipset limited. read up a little. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X64 after that, stop listening to your friend who "taught" you all this, he doesn't know much.
do you want me to take a picture of my BIOS screen? it's set under BIOS. changing the operating frequency at which the system physically boots at through from ware is usually not considered to be software overclocking. by those standards AMD systems haven't been purely hardwareclockable since the palermino days when people bridged circuits for multiplier modification - BUT people still overclocked the buss speed through BIOS. if you want true hardware level overclocking , go back to the Intel 8086 days when you physically had to swap the clock crystals. motherboards made in the last 10 years or so no longer contain clock crystals as everything is synchronized with the systems chipset.
