overclocking... what do u do?

[Hamza]

I have an epox 8K3a mobo with 512meg DDR 333 pc 2700 and an AMD 1800+ cpu.
I have never ever overclocked and I don't know how to either. I was just wondering, if I wanted to overclock the cpu, what would I need to do and how would i do it??
Remember, I is a newbie so you might need to speak english very very slowly.

Thanks in advance

[iNeb]

Firstly, what type of CPU do you have, is it a palomino, or a tbred a or b?


I would suggestion going into the bios and slowly uping the front side bus if you have the right cooling.

Basically stop when you feel like it is enough, temp gets too high, it becomes unstable, ect

Get the book in the pic at the top of the page.

Serioulsy, I got it out of curiousity, and it is surprisingly good (sorry, Scott and Rob, I thought it might be a geek thing... ). It's really written in fairly lay terms, not a geek thing at all.

So, if you are serious about learning about o'clocking, get it!!

Or, alternatively, ask here, like you're doing.

Cheers
Mick

[KenKun]

You can OC you CPU's FSB, OCing the CPU through the multiplier will involve messing with the L1 bridge to be able to control the multiplier settings ..

Anyway, you have to go into your system BIOS and tweak from there .. increase the FSB ...

You have to have a good power supply and very good cooling for the CPU and the case in general ..

Read more and don't make illogical jumps .. like going from 133MHz FSB to 160MHz in one step .. make 2-3MHz steps ..

Regards

[Hamza]

is it the same to clock the ram?

[EndobioticChaos]

The ram clocks right along with the CPU. That's why you need good ram to be able to overclock much.