Oh, one more thing, I’m upgrading to a EVGA GeForce GTX 460 in a couple of days. Think that will take care of my Crysis issue, or will I still have to overclock? The GTX 460 I’m buying says that it is “super clocked”, which I’m assuming means that its overclocked.
I can’t tell you whether or not it does what you want, but I’d still suggest you hold off for another year, enjoy your 220, since it’s still pretty new. The only reason I have a 250 and not my 8800 was because I thought the 8800 was breaking (turns out it wasn’t > 
). I like the feeling you get when you make that HUGE upgrade for relatively cheap, and see all the games that used to chug by all choppy-like suddenly come through smooth and clean.
Wish I’d come here first then. I already purchased it from Amazon, and once its shipped its to late to cancel the order. Oh well. At least it will work better than what I’ve got right now.
I have a PS2 emulator that benefits alot from overclocking, with my default clock of 1.8Ghz* I can play some of the 2D fighting games but with my uber clock of 2.98ghz I can play GTA liberty/vice Stories, God of War, Devil May Cry, Resident Evil, Metal Gear Solid, Burnout, Gran Turismo etc…
*my current CPU at stock is 2.2ghz (E4500), but my 1.8ghz CPU(E2160) should be overclockable to around 3.2Ghz, I am limited by my mobo so I am using the other CPU for the L2 cache (2mb vs 1mb)
RAM speed = FSB x memory multiplier
OCing CPU = raising FSB (in most cases)
Newer Intel CPU’s have a baseclock (BCLK), so a multiplier of 21x with a BCLK of 133 MHz gives you roughly 2.8 GHz
Wouldn’t know about that since my CPU was made in the stone age.
I assume that the BCLK doesn’t affect the rest of the system, sice you pointed this out, right?