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Could anyone walk me through the steps to OC my system?

AMD Barton 2500
Abit NF7-S
Kingston HyperX pc3500

Thanks.

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here goes...first of all this is what you need...prime95 and a program called motherboard monitor...also get a program called memtest86 before you start...

Run memtest86 for more than 12hours...it will burn in your memory and help give you a better overclock...

Next drop your cpus multiplyer (in bios) to 8x and set your fsb to 200mhz...if its stable great...next set it to 210...then work it up in 1 or 2mhz incraments from there...if you get instabilities...back off...feel free to increase the memory voltage by up to .2 volts to get the best mem overclock... Once you have hit your max run prime 95...if you get any errors back off until you no longer get any...if prime 95 runs ok run memtest 86 overnigh...if you get no errors you are fine...if you do then back off a little...

Next we move to actual overclock...before we found the best fsb that your cpu can run at...leave the fsb at the fastest speed you could stabily reach and raise the multiplyer in incraments of .5 until you hit instability (or the computer does not post) run prime95 torture test for an hour to make sure your system is stable...Once your cpu does not post or gets unstable you can increase the voltage all the way up to 1.8 volts...if your cpu goes above 55c (using motherboard monitor to read the temp) under load you should back off...

Once you get you final speed...run prime 95 torture test overnight...if you get errors back off...

Things to make sure you do before you start overclocking...make sure you agp and pci buses are locked...read the manual to find out how to do this...also make sure that your memory speed is running the same speed as you fsb

3 386DX-25's...12 volts...glue some ln2 and a wicked amount of overclocking and you get a willamantee minus 36 pins, 33.75 million transistors and a couple hundred mhz... :cool:

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Awesome, thanks a lot pIII_man. =)

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have fun

3 386DX-25's...12 volts...glue some ln2 and a wicked amount of overclocking and you get a willamantee minus 36 pins, 33.75 million transistors and a couple hundred mhz... :cool:

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