Well as you know, or may not, overclockign depends on many factors. IT depends on how high your chip can go, on how fast your memory can run, and the temperature and the type of cooling you use, just to name a few things.
No one chip is the same. Some people get great results, and some people wish they could get another chip. The basics of overclocking mean raising the FSB in the bios to achieve a higher clocked CPU. But that alone doesnt make a good overclock. You have to play around with your memory timings, and depending on how brave you are, you could increase the voltage to your chip and your memory. ( but that poses a rick to your equiptment, becuase after all, you will be running those things with a higher voltage!!! ) To be on the safe side, i would get some better cooling to make sure that when you do overclock, that the extra heat generated but doign this, can be easily dissipated. ( this is to not let your chip get to hot, becuase HEAT is bad.. mostly. ) The most important thing about overclocking is to make sure that after you overclock, your system is stable. Because what good is an unstable system which would crash or hang up.? SO you have to be careful and play around at your own risk, o! and one more thing.. dont raise your voltage too high, because if you heavnt heard, there is something called SNDS which is really bad, and you wouldnt want that happening! Here is a sticky which you can read more about
SNDS . Remember Overclocking voids warrenty, so only do it at your own risk! Also, do not forget to lock the AGP/PCI frequency at 66/33. Raising this is for more advanced users, it poses a risk to your expansion cards and just like any overclocking, it may damage your system.
but, just letting you know, almost everyone here does it, and has had success, so dont be too worried!
To find out what others have clocked their chips to, go to the
CPU Database and just search for whatever informatino you need.
This should give you some starting point on how to overclock, but i encorurage you to search for and read other posts by people on these forums, so to get a better feel of what to do. What is a better way to learn then from other people's experiences?
Raven
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