To overclock or not to overclock my old Athlon X2 250

[CenturionFIN]

Hi,
following recent advice from other forumites here I went ahead and bought a GTX 760 and a new 600W PSU for my aging system. I also installed a new cooler for my CPU since the fan has been making funny noises for a while. The CPU now runs rather cool, about 25-30C idle and max about 40C under load. Now the question is, since my CPU is a pretty bad bottleneck, should I try to overclock it? What sort of performance gains could I look at? I mostly play ArmA 3, War Thunder and Wargame: Air Land Battle, and some sims like DCS: World.

Specs:
600W PSU Chieftec Smart Series
CPU AMD Athlon X2 250 3,0Ghz
CPU Cooler LC Power Cosmo cool lc-cc95
MOBO Asus M4A785TD-V EVO
RAM 8gb DDR3
GPU Asus Geforce GTX760 2gb
HDD: 1x 128GB SSD (OS) and 1X 500GB HDD (Storage)

Thankful for any input!

 

[thdarkshadow]

You won't gain a lot of performance but it will be some. Its free performance so why not? Its like free money. BTW you really NEED to upgrade that CPU. You will at least double the FPS

 

[toddybody]

I would really look into replacing the CPU (if thats an option). That said, a higher clock will help out but im unsure as to the stability of the X2 250 at a distinct OC (4.0Ghx+). Im not confident a modest OC is going to radically change your gaming experience at 2 cores.