e6420 prospects

WasntMe

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My wife has an e6420 running stock at 2.13.

Her PC is a dog and has been for a while. I bought a bunch of new parts for my PC and now the wife wants to see some improvements to hers. "Wow your PC is fast" she says with a frown.

I am throwing an 8800GTX in to replace the 8600GT and I added a stick of memory (DDR-800, 2GB total). She really only plays WoW and surfs the net.

Do you think anything can be done to the processor OC wise? It's sitting in an P5N-E SLI motherboard and the memory is pretty cheap. Since WoW is really CPU based, anything done to the processor should help her see an improvement (I hope).
 
You should be able to get that near 3GHz easily. May have to toss on an aftermarket cooler, which can be had for cheap.

I've got my E6400 (older version of the 6420 with a few small changes) at 3.2 on a daily basis, it can go up to 3.5, but at high temps.
 
Got it up to 2.8. Anything higher is getting things too hot in the case.
 
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