Need help overclocking

[cisco]

I have been trying to overclock my AMD 3500+ Winchester but with not a lot of success. The best I could get was a about 2450mhz before becoming unstable. I lowered the HTT to 4x and increased vcore slightly. My question is what are some ranges that I want to stay within. I have stock cooling and have had my cpu up to 2450mhz with no problem in temps around 40c under load but can't get it to be stable. Any advice on some general perameters that I want to stay within to get to 2500hmz stable I would appreciate. Like what vcore, memory voltage, FSB, multiplier, etc. Should I get an aftermarket heatsink? Any website to help would be nice as well.

3500+ Winchester
MSI K8N Neo Plat SLI
2x1gig OCZ 2.2.3.5. 1T
BFG 7800gt OCd to 470/1150
74 gig Raptor
36 gig Raptor
500w Ultra PSU

 

[moshe615]

or u need to first get ur system stable to that speed

use sisoft sandra and its burn in tool
let that run for about 2 days

then try to increase ur oc

drop ur ram to 333mhz fsb as well

well

get an aftermarket cooler

i prefer thermal take

u want something thats all copper heatsink and with high cfm for the fan
votage for cpu to to 1.425
ram voltage go to 2.65