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Message: <blockquote data-quote="roshant" data-source="post: 3341431" data-attributes="member: 129016">Old days i overclocked my pentium 3 550Mhz to 610Mhz to run delta force 2.It ran better with higher cpu clock.Nowadays things are different.If you have a core 2 duo or quad running at 2.2, 2.4 or higher for allmost all games out their at precent do not require more cpu power.Because CPU is not the bottleneck here.It is GPU and the Vram bandwith.When AA is enabled performance drops significantly due to GPU power and Vram bandwidth.Half life 2 creator valve is just about to use the quad core power of the cpu.For other game engines dual core power is more than enough.Directx 11 claims support for multi cpu which is coming with windows 7.                If you are doing so many things at once like graphics rendering ,Unziping ,chatting,and broswing at same time then the more cpu power is requierd.               If you are not doing so many things at once 2.4 quad core is enough.But sure, it will not enough for future.So i am not overclocking my Cpu .But i overclock my GPU and VRAM if it is giving me bad performance for games</blockquote>

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