quick question bout overclocking

[Emericana]

i have my 1900+ unlocked on a 8kha+ w/ the beta bios that allows for insane FSB speeds (8khal00.bin) and everything in the bios is all tweaked out and stuff. i have plenty of cooling in my case and a 400w psu. Before i start overclocking, should i first raise the voltage to 1.85v and then start overclocking or should i only raise the voltage when stuff gets unstable. oh yes i have one more question, should i try to lower the clock multiplyer and raise the fsb or raise the clock multiplyer and the fsb for best speeds?

[cw823]

FSB & Multiplier will go hand in hand. Find the best mix of both. Maybe go FSB first, then bump up the multiplier, or vice versa. Only when you achieve instability would I increase the voltage. Or, like I would do (having overclocker way too many systems). Max the voltage, and overclock away.

[Emericana]

so what you are saying is that i should max out the volatge first ( i dont see why i shouldnt cause i would only have to max it out later to achieve stability and i have good cooling on the chip... sk6 w/ 50cfm delta) and then do FSB and THEN multiplyer? i dont see how that would work. wouldnt i either wanna reduce the multiplyer in order to get better fsb speeds or increase the multiplyer and then tweak the fsb? any opinions?

[WyrmMaster]

Maxing the voltage is only a good idea if you have very good cooling. What i do, and recommend, is overclock till its unstable, then up the voltage.

[Arkaine23]

Multiplyer down a notch first. Then up FSB. Then up voltage to improve stability as FSB goes higher. This should let you find your max stable FSB.

Then turn the FSB and voltage back down some and try upping the multiplyer. Find your max stable FSB/voltage at the new multiplyer setting. Then turn FSB and voltage down again, and bump up multiplyer even further. Raise FSB and voltage as before. Rinse and repeat if desired.

Get the idea. Test stability with benchmarks or maybe some games. And watch your temps!

Then you'll have to decide what is the best combination of FSB/multiplyer/voltage. FSB improves overall performance, Multiplyer improves CPU speed. AT higher multiplyers you may have to use lower FSB, so decide which is more important to you. Also multiplyer has a more dramtic impact on CPU temperature than FSB.

[Emericana]

here isall of the cooling stuff i have: ALUMINUM Lianli pc68 case w/ 3 80mm Panaflow fans set on the highspeed setting. My graphics card has a dragon orb thingy on oit (it is the gainward ti500 which comes w/ somekind of orb). My processor has a sk6 w/ a 50cfm 60mm Delta Fan and artic silver ii. My memory has a thermaltake active memory cooler on it. Also i have whatever fan came w/ the psu. do you think i will be able to run it at 1.85v all of the time?