overclocked my xp 1700+, need advice

[mrsambo12]

[Placid]

:eek:

[Arkaine23]

While its hard to say what device is giving you trouble, you can experiment and narrow down the list. Turn your multiplyer to default or lower, then remove nonessential pci devices one at a time and try to get a higher FSB... modem, nic, soundcard, etc. This won't be able to tell you if the bottleneck is memory, hdd, or agp, but will narrow it down to those. I'd bet it's the HDD or memory. Try tuning the memory timings some and see if that helps.

You're video card should overclock extremely well! Get 3dmark2001 from madonion.com. And run the benchmark with your default settings for everything. Then oc your cpu the way you like it and retest. Then use nvmax or something similar and oc the video card. I'd start by going up in 5 MHz intervals for both GPU and memory. If the benchamrk won't complete, the screen freezes, or you get little sparkles you'll have to back down the settings. A lock-up is usually too high on the GPU, while artifacts (sparkles) are too high on the memory. Also, turn off V-sync in the display settings- advanced- ti200- advanced settings- openGL tab (I think).