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I was going to begin my first OC project soon, but I wasn't sure where to begin. After some reading - I understand that OC RAM has minimal results, so I'm going to focus on CPU and GPU.

The specs:
M2N e-SLI
AMD Athalon 64 5000+ x2 @ 2.66 Ghz (Wish I would've waited for the Black Edition now)
eVGA 8800GTS 640mb
2x 1GB DDR2 PC6400 Patriot Extreme (5-5-5-12 I believe)
Silencer 750w Quad

I keep reading that almost all but the most high-end processors "bottleneck" the performance of the 8800 series cards, so I'm assuming I should start by working up my processor clock rate. After that I think I'll start on the GPU (which is currently at 513 Core / 792 Memory - this seems really low compared to what others are pushing). Am I taking the right approach to OC? Anyone have any suggestions before I begin?


Message edited by rgeist554 on 10-24-2007 at 04:04:56 AM

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