Overclock the 900 tbird/Asus a7v 200 fsb

[bmw528ia1997]

Newbie to overclocking here..

Ok wondering if anyone will help me out. I have been looking around trying to find out how to overclock my 900 tbird. So far from what I have gathered, all I have to do is connect the L-1 Bridges together from top to bottom with a lead pencil. Is this right?
I am running the Tbird with a ASUS A7v 200fsb ( I believe the original A7v 200 Board, I think there was a couple revisions or with or without built in sound card) Anyway I got the one with out the built in sound card. I am not sure if my board is locked as well. I have 2 dipp on the board itself but can overclock using jumperfree mode. (by the way Im home for the holidays and my cpu is 300 miles away so Im going off my memory of my board)
Also from what I can remember I believe I can only change the fsb in the bios but maybe thats because my chip is locked so changing the multiplier would not be available to me in the bios right?

As far as cooling, I bought the swiftech mc370 and I will be using some of that antec thermal greece that says -10 degrees.

What could I go to safly 1 gig 1.5 gig? Would I need to change voltage if I go to 1.5? What is a safe operating temp for the cpu using asus probe for the info. 125-130

Thanks everyone

[eh?]

ok first off asus probes are known to be off on their temps, try to keep the temps as low as possible but 50 should be your cut off point i would let it go any higher than that. Second of all what you have to do to change the multiplier is connect the L-1 bridges, you will need a magnifying glass for this a pencil, just connect the dots and make sure you don't cross them. then after you do that then see how high you can take the fsb.... like and example is that if you can get your fsb to 120 and your multiplier to 10 then your chip is running 1200mhz. which isn't a bad oc.

BTW it is better to have a higher fsb then the multiplier so if you can get you fsb to 120 with he default multiplier of 9 then you would be running 1080mhz...

[bmw528ia1997]

I will try doing that when I am back@ school. I can currently change the bus to 103 but thats the highest otherwise I gotta clear the cmos. I can remember off hand but can I change the multiplier in the bios if I unlock the chip? Is is avialable to me then? Sorry I am going off memory cause im not at my cpu.

WOuld I need to change the voltage?

[theflyingrat]

Once you unlock the multipliers on the CPU itself, you can set the multiplier on the DIP switches on the motherboard itself. There are no multipliers in BIOS on the old A7Vs. There are, however, on the A7V133.

[repo man11]

If you're going to use the pencil trick, a mechanical pencil is best. If you don't have one, a tip from my mechanical drawing class can help. After sharpening the pencil, use sandpaper to sharpen it further. A very fine point is helpful in making sure you get the graphite only where you need it.