Help with Overclocking

Before you do anything I would suggest you invest in some serious cooling tech. Get a Zalman fan or water cooling for the cpu, extra/better chipset and video card heatsink/fans if yours are not made for the extra duty.

Overclocking is not something to be taken so lightly as messing with the BIOS settings and leaving it at that. Preparation is the key to a stable system.

And I have noticed from personal experience that GalCiv2 does not like overclocked video cards. I have a factory OC'd version of the Nvidia 6800 GS with a copper heatsink, so heat has never been an issue. But overclocking it more resulted in GalCiv2 crashes.

Sorry, but I don't know of any websites to direct you to.

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Don't take the road unless your willing to lose though. It does happen alot. If you just built or bought a New pc I would leave it alone. Just a friendly warning. And like the Above posted mentioned if you do decide to do it, don't cheap out on a Good Fan, or you will pay later.

I don't have any web sites for you but, Athlons overclock nicely. I have a 3700+ I'm running at 2.5 GHz (stock speed of 2.2 GHZ). In my case, all I did was run up the FSB from 200 MHz to 225 MHz. That speeds up the memory as well as the processor. I can go as high as 250 MHz and maintain stability. The video card I don't overclock myself. I use an eVGA 7900 GT Signature Series card which is factory overclocked. And, it's way overclocked, stock speed is 450 MHz core and the eVGA card runs 600 MHz core. Makes a big difference in video performance.

In your case, I would run up the FSB in small steps until the system becomes unstable, then take it down somewhat from there for a margin of stability. Use a test hard drive with a throw-away installation of Windows because you can trash the operating system when the system destabilizes. Once you have a stable overclocked system, put your normal hard drive back in.

Well, best of luck.

yep, quality parts are a must if your gonna take this route. if you doubt your parts don't take the risk. cooling and power supply in particular. memory is important but it is more likely to simply stop you(instability) rather than actually damage your system if the bottleneck is there. crappy power or cooling can get very ugly(expensive) tho. and be aware that overclocking WILL reduce the longevity of your system.

Yea, you'll want good memory. Obviously, you'll have problems speeding up the FSB if the memory can't handle it. Use stock memory timings because a faster FSB will increase memory bandwidth much more than faster memory timings. As far as cooling goes, the newer 90nm Athlons are very cool running processors (Venice, San Diego, etc). All you need is a good fan on the stock cooler or an after-market cooler with a good fan. Water cooling and other extravagant cooling methods are only necessary if you want to run on the bleeding edge. Pushing things that hard carries some risk like system crashes and data corruption. I don't see much advantage there. As far as reducing lifetime, I've never had a system burn up before replacing the parts in my normal upgrade path so I generally don't worry about it.

http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showthread.php?t=20823

A64 on a DFI board but assuming an open bios the steps are the same...

LOL

Intel 805 anyone?

$138 CAD for a dual core HT cpu at 2.66 ghz

OC'd to 4.1 ghz!

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toms hardware and anandtech are good starting points, but a good 10 min of googling ur processor + OC o/c, over clocking, etc will net you what you need

I have water cooled video cards (two nvidia 7800 gtx's) and a water cooled FX-57 processor. Not cheap parts. I wouldn't overclock without the "insurance" of water cooling.

overclocking = hotter. hotter = shorter life. that's just the way it is. i didn't say it wouldn't last long enough personally i am pretty hard up for the cash to do some much needed upgrades so longevety IS an issue for me. that's why i mentioned it, he may be in the same (leaky) boat. fortunatly the parts i do have are good parts so...

cheap parts + overclocking = hope you have a spare comp just in case

they don't have to be top of the line, but cheap is trouble. hell, cheap is asking for trouble even WITHOUT overclocking. at a minimum get the best psu you can afford, it just might last thru several motherboards and will give you a more stable system no matter how long it holds up. not saying you should pay for PCPower&Cooling monsters, but get something with a 3year waranty and reviews showing clean output. Tom's (mentioned earlier i believe) should have some reasonably current psu review if you need them.

now, if someone can just tell me why i am going into this when all the op wants is to know how to crank up his fsb....lol

Ok i decided to hold off on burning my computer... attempting a new adventure now.... Anybody know anything about Unix??? Installed it in my old computer, have no clue what im doing.. and how the hell do u get a downloaded program to run????lmao