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Reviews are everything yeah. I think if you don't even know what overclocking is, the the safest bet is to only use stock volts and OC as far as you can, as this does not increase power and heat much at all, it's when you increase core voltage when heat dissipation increases, and fast, as it's exponential to the voltage you are putting through it.

You don't really want to do what I do with overclocking, as I have a core 2 duo E8400 overclocked from the stock 3.0ghz to a very large OC of 4.2Ghz. Just as an example of how fast the heat dissipation can increase on the high end, going from 4.2ghz to 4.4ghz increases loaded system power consumption from ~200watts, to a massive 290watts. That is an extra 90watts extra from the little CPU cores, and for 200mhz extra , is NOT worth it, as you can see. If you are wondering how I measure power consumption, I have a wall outlet power meter.