3000Barton

is there any reason i need to overclock this?

For more power, or becasue you want to/for fun.

The XP3000 barton is not a big overlocker but you can get a bit more out of it then stock.
Any reason to do it ? heck no but it sure is fun to do so

is there a program i need to overclock it? and also are there any dangers in overclocking?

colb said:

is there any reason i need to overclock this?

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Almost no-one needs to overclock. There are reasons why you may want to. Is your computer too slow for you cpu-wise? Do you want it to be faster? If so and you don't mind a little work and a little risk, you may want to give overclocking a try.

Most of us overclock using options in the bios. If you don't have there, cpufsb, softfsb and speedfan are examples of programs for windows that help you overclock from windows. To test for stability after overclock, you can use things like memtest86, prime95 and cpu burn.

As for dangers, there certainly are some. If you are conservative and careful, you mostly risk shortening the life of your processor, but probably not by a large amount. If you give too much voltage and not enough cooling, you can kill your cpu (but know what you're doing should prevent this). If your PCI Bus gets overclocked when you raise your FSB (if it will depebnds upon your motherboard/chipset), you risk data corruption and other wierd things. If you raise your RAM speed too high you risk data corruption in addition to crashes. With throrough stability testing, you should be able to avoid things like crashes and data corruption.