OC'ing order?

I'm going to be putting together my new comp in about a week and I was wondering what order should I do my OC'ing/tweaking? Should I try to optimize memory timings first or OC the CPU first? Or both together?

If it is an AMD system i would keep tight timings on P4 systems timings are important but not as important. First when you overclock keep ram at 1:1 and go for a high FSB with a low multiplyer then up the multiplyer to as high as it will go, uping voltages as needed (but not to excessive points). Then fidle with the FSB and multiplyer to try to get a good speed and ram speed.

Test often with some sort of benching program. Speed isn't everything just like FSB isn't everything. Test to find the highest scores you can get.

I say that it depends on what you overclock. If you push the FSB higher, and that in turn pushes your RAM, your RAM will not be able to work at the same timings.

If, on the other hand, you only change the multiplier on the CPU and leave the fsb the same, you can go ahead and play with the timings first.

If it were me, I would OC the CPU first. See how much speed you can get using the fsb and multipliers. Then work on your RAM and finaly, your video card. That's just me though.

Thanks! I guess it does make more sense to OC the FSB first and then set the timings.

Here is a memory article on this subject. Conclusion came out to

On average, the system with the memory running at 400 MHz (5:4 memory divider enabled) with aggressive memory timings performed 2-3% faster than the system using high speed memory with loose timings.

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The article can be found here: http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=873&page=1