Pc Freak wroteMegaCool wroteyou can overclock it from the Bios ofcourse, multiply the frequency of the core clock.
in order to test or verify the core clock speed download a software called RightMark CPU utility, it tells your realtime cpu speed.
I tried to overclock it to the 4GHz mark, but it kept crashing, so i figured 3.6GHz was the best.
if i overclock and look in the system properties it still says 3.06GHz bt if i use cpu-ID it does show the overclock bt it shows no performance increase :/
System properties wont change, it just displays the stock speed of your cpu model, a software like cpu-id shows the real overclocked speed in real-time.
and what kind of increase in performance are you expecting?? overclocking your cpu will make multitasking much faster, but if you mean in videogames,
if you dont have a gpu as I stated before overclocking wont help you much gaining any performance boost.
overclocked i3 + a good GPU= beasty overall performance
Edit:
@jajoja you can gain pretty decent performance from an overclocked core I3, I can go up to 4.6GHz if I install the right cooling fans,
but the thing is that I don't really need that processing speed because of my weak gpu, core i3 are much better than regular dual core processors and pretty much extremely effective when overclocked, yeah after all the cache is what really counts for future quad demanding games.
and there you go an 8mb cache less than 2.6GHZ processor is more than twice the price of an i3, but still an overclocked i3 can produce high end quality tasking and gaming performance if matched up with the right hardware(memory, graphic card).