The e5200 CPU is capable of overclocking, however your motherboard also needs to have the capability as well. fortunatley most do, but a quick google can tell you one way or teh other.
Going to 3.0 GHz is often not a problem if you have an aftermarket CPU cooler. If you only have the stock cooler it becomes a lottery. Things like the actual manufacturing batch of the CPU, whether the thermal paste is applied well or how much ventilation your case has are all factors in how far you can clock.
It's relatively safe so long as you do not manually increase your CPU voltages over the suggested limit. this is the single most important thing to take into account. usually if your motherboard resets the BIOS to default you need to bump up the CPU voltage, so be careful.
Usually the easiest and safest way (assuming your motherboard supports it) is to change the CPU multiplier value and adjust the RAM ratio to compensate.
Read up on overclocking before you start, places like www.overclockers.com.au are a great place for information.
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The e5200 CPU is capable of overclocking, however your motherboard also needs to have the capability as well. fortunatley most do, but a quick google can tell you one way or teh other.
Going to 3.0 GHz is often not a problem if you have an aftermarket CPU cooler. If you only have the stock cooler it becomes a lottery. Things like the actual manufacturing batch of the CPU, whether the thermal paste is applied well or how much ventilation your case has are all factors in how far you can clock.
It's relatively safe so long as you do not manually increase your CPU voltages over the suggested limit. this is the single most important thing to take into account. usually if your motherboard resets the BIOS to default you need to bump up the CPU voltage, so be careful.
Usually the easiest and safest way (assuming your motherboard supports it) is to change the CPU multiplier value and adjust the RAM ratio to compensate.
Read up on overclocking before you start, places like www.overclockers.com.au are a great place for information.
dual core processors can overclock heaps try going to 4ghz and see how tht works my friend got his pentium up to 5ghz.