I am attempting to breath new life into my sysem, so I got an eVGA 8800GTS and some more, faster RAM, and sinse Gigabyte just unlocked my mboareds overclocking features with their latest BIOS I also would like to pump some more juice out of my CPU to go with the uogrades.

RAM: CORSAIR XMS2 (2 x 1GB) DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)4-4-4-12

CPU: Intel E 6400 with a thermaltake cooler. idels at 25 and load at 34

I found someone had posted an excellent guide with a system very similar to mine only hid ram is slower, sinse I dont understand the basics of overclocking maybe someone can be kind enough to run the figures and tell me what numbers to change?

http://www.neowin.net/forum/lofive [...] 03808.html
7. Enter the MB Intelligent Tweaker (M.I.T.) section and do the following:
- Set CPU Host Clock Control to Enabled
- Set CPU Host Frequency (MHz) to 376
- Set PCI Express Frequency(MHz) to 100
- Set System Memory Multiplier to 2.00
- Set DRAM Timing Selectable to Manual
- Set CAS Latency Time to 5
- Set DRAM RAS# to CAS# Delay to 5
- Set DRAM RAS# Precharge to 5
- Set Precharge dealy (tRAS) to 12
Most RAM will actually work at 4-4-4-12 but this is a guide for lazy people so I figured I'd go with 5-5-5-12 since it's bound to work.

I would love to get my processor to 2.9 but would be satisfied with 2,6. Thanks for any and all help!!!!!!

I have almost the same specs, a gygabite mobo 965p ds3 rev.3 with the same ram. My CPU is a E6320, my idle temp is 31 load at 45. I have a 1950xt GPU. Thanks.