I still dont get how you overclcok, and i dont understand those 10 pages of explanation of overclocking, so i just want specific ideas on hwo you overclcok, im overclocking a amd athlon 3000+ venice, from 1.8 ghz to 2.4 or 2.5. i have the right cooling and heatsink, the powersupply and the motherboard to do this. -does it require softwares for overclcoking? if so please state the name of it and what it does. - if you can overclcok a gpu and memory ram, can you explain how? or atleast put a good guide link. . my specs are: cpu: amd athlon 64bit 3000+ venice GPU: geforce 7800 GT Motherboard: LanParty nf4 SLI-DR memory: corsair xms 1gb 2x512mb pc 3200 400 mhz. power supply: ocz powerstream 520 watts heatsink: silver stone nitrogen nt02 if you answer these questions and they are really helpful to me i will award you 200 credits. i really need to know this because without it im doomed lol.
1. Run the backup of all the important data stored on the hard disk. 2. Turn the computer off, remove the covering of the case and the power cable from the plug; take the user’s manual of the motherboard. 3.Check to see how the jumpers of the bus frequency, the multiplier and the power supply of the CPU are currently set; write all this down (check to see that they correspond to the default settings of the CPU as written on the user’s manual). Check to see if there are some serigraphs on the motherboard showing jumper combinations which aren’t listed in the manual. If the motherboard includes jumperless functions you only need to access directly to it and change the specific parameters. 4. Change the jumpers for the bus frequency and/or the multiplier based on the clock speed of the CPU you want to achieve (for the jumperless menu, run this operation directly through the BIOS). Pay attention! 5. Turn the computer on; leave the case covering aside as you could need to work again on the motherboard to change some other setting. With the case open you can see better if the cooling system works correctly. 6. If the computer doesn’t crash and you can access the POST phase (that is the screen showing the BIOS features) go to step 8. 7. If the computer doesn’t start, so you can’t access the POST phase and the screen is black (with digital monitors the power led blinks) or the system crashes during the POST phase before you can complete the process, it means that the working frequency selected is too high for the hardware components available. Try with a lower frequency. 8. Access the BIOS Setup of the motherboard (generally pressing DEL) and check the parameters referring to the memory timings; now you don’t have to change any values, but you could need to act on some of them if the system didn’t load the operating system or it is unstable. 9. Load the operating system; if it is loaded, run a program which requires many resources and check if everything works correctly; generally it is sufficient to run a benchmark or a 3D game. If the system works in a stable way (no blue screens, no suddenly reboot…..) the overclock has been successful. On the other hand, if the system is unstable, it means that some components (generally the processor and the memory, but the hard disk and the video card too) can’t support the frequency selected so you need to solve the problem. (This was taken from http://www.hwupgrade.com/overclock/cpu/ ) Edit: Only send creds if this works of course.
Quite the overclocking jump you want to make, just remember the more you overclock the more unstabble your computer may become, there are overclocking software out there, I forget the name. Sometimes you can even turn up the speed of your comp from inside your BIOS, did this on my old computer and turned it from a 733mhz - 900mhz Not a big dif, but also not a fast comp
