New PC and a quick OC question

[Haste]

Just put together my new pc and I got a quick question. I was just wondeirng with the setup I have and using Asus' AI OC utility what would be a decent seting to OC to?

5% (3.36GHz)
10% (3.52GHz)
20% (3.84Ghz)

I would assume that 5% increase should be no problem. But is 10% to high for my set up? Mind you I want my pc to last me awhile

Thermaltake Xaser III VM2000A LANFIRE
Thermaltake Silent PurePower 480W
LG 4081B 8X DVD+/-RW
Pentium 4 3.2C GHz
Western Digital 120GB S-ATA, 7200 RPM
OCZ EL Platinum Edition PC3200 DDR400 256MBx2 CAS2
ASUS P4C800-DLX Intel 875P, 800MHz Dual DDR400
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB

 

[Crashman]

You won't damage your PC using AI overclocking, AI doesn't change the voltages enough to do harm. If you overclock too far, your system will either refuse to boot, or become unstable. And when you set it back, you fix that problem.

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[Haste]

Great, thanks for the info. I'm going to try a 10% increase and see how my system reacts.

 

[Haste]

Well using Asus' AI Overclocker my system runs stable at 3.52 GHz (10% increase). However when at 20% increase (3.84 GHz) I get the blue screen of death on boot up.

I ran 3DMark 2003 at stock speed and 10% increased

3.2 GHz Score: 5676
3.52 GHz Score: 5659

That was one test each I didn't have time to run more benchmarks last night. It's funny how I got a higher result when my CPU was left at stock.

 

[scottchen]

The reason that happens is because Asus AI tuner changes Dram ratio to 3:2, you can fix that by updating to the latest bios.

I hate my TI4200.