First time overclocking (noob)

sorry correction to the memory:
2 sticks of kingston PC2-4300
2 sticks of Micron tech PC2-3200

read the guide it helps.

ExtremeTech has some videos for building a gaming PC.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/oc-guide.h...
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2188777,00.a...
http://www.techwarelabs.com/guides/misc_mod/overclockin...
http://techreport.com/articles.x/13815
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/overclocking-guide,...
http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Guides/OCgui...
http://www.overclock.net/overclock.php?file=articles/ov...
http://eclipseoc.com/index.php?id=6,51,0,0,1,0

Google is your friend. You've got a lot of reading to do.

Hello, Dont consider overclocking until you have better ram, To overclock to a reasonable level you need at least 800Mhz, Im sure that your Mobo's chipset does not support your ram speed as AFAIk your CPU has a 333Mhz FSB therefore the lowest ram speed/Divider will be 667Mhz.

Can you clarify what ram you have and the rated speed please.

cheers

wow 7900GS....

Okay I picked up some new ram:

Corsair XMS2 Dominator TWIN2X2048-8500C5D (found a good deal)

So now what lol. And yes I know video card is out dated but o.ced it does the job.

1066MHz is 1:SLIGHT overkill, and 2:simply OC'd 800MHz with relaxed timings!!
oh well no use crying over spilt potion...

lol my 7600GS OC'd 50% with the stock fan!! it plays everything i throw at it! (luckily i think crysis is a sh!t game...) so i wasnt flaming u or anything lol  

so NOW, what you do is make the timings 4-4-4-12, put the FSB at 400MHz and first off, lower the cpu multiplier to 7, then increase to 8 if stable   hope it works! wonder y no one else has posted to this thread in a while lol