Please help!!!

[thelast500]

IM sort of a noob in computers and bought a geforce 6600 128 mb graphics card. I heard people overclock? what does that mean. What does it do?
Any help would help thanks

[lil_jimmy_norton]

Re: Please help!!!

http://forums.extremeoverclocking.com/showthread.php?t=120317

It means running your hardware at a speed faster than it came at stock, and in increases perfomance

[thelast500]

Re: Please help!!!

oh and can you guys also tell me if this is good enough for medium settings. 128 mb geforce 6600 gt, 1.5 gb of ram, intel pentium 4 2.53 cpu.

thx budd

[lil_jimmy_norton]

Re: Please help!!!

oh and can you guys also tell me if this is good enough for medium settings. 128 mb geforce 6600 gt, 1.5 gb of ram, intel pentium 4 2.53 cpu.

thx budd

Should be good enough yeah.

[sackynut]

Re: Please help!!!

yes that rig should play at medium fine (seeing as how I used to have the same exact thing but with only 512mb of ram and it ran medium)

as for overclocking, it is possible to damage your parts, and with YOUR personal parts, there really is not much need to OC.