Help me o/c my t-bird 800

[Jackal]

I am pretty new to o/c-ing. I have tried a little but am afraid I may smike my board if i try anymore without consultation. Here is what i have: ASUS A7V VIA KT133, t-bird 800, annihilator2 MX, 256MB PC133 RAM. When I tried to o/c before, my RAM frequency kept goin up, and eventually the system froze. I haven't done the pencil trick yet. Not sure if I have to. My BIOS is at version 1005c. PLEASE, help me to get it as high as possible and still be very stable. I have many fans running, so overheating won't be a big problem. The highest I have gotten it is 872, before I got scared. I don't have money to replace smoked items, so I just want to be careful. HELP PLEASE.

[Nomis]

Hi, The pencil trick is neccessary to start your cpu overclocking. I too own a T-Bird 800 and the max my cpu can reach is 1020MHz,10X102MHz fsb, 1.85V, Stable and no lock up running on intense 3D programs. The T-Bird gets very hot , if I use an Alpha Pal-35t heatsink w/ 26cfm fan, the temperture will be in the 40C idle but if I replace it with a Delta 38cfm fan, the temperture will be 5C degree less which is in a good temperture range but noisy. You have an ASUS A7V w/KT133, so your motherboard won't go very high on fsb because of that via chipset, The best way is to rise the cpu multipler to like 10X100MHz fsb for 1000MHz, 1.85V+/-. or 9.5X100/105+, 10.5X100, if you are extremely lucky 11X100. For better memory performance, you can still tweak your ram speed to 133MHz and 100MHz for cpu fsb in your bios if you own pc-133 sdram. For good result, a high performance heatsink counts and check the cpu temp if you don't want to take any chances of demaging it. Go luck to your overclocking journey!