A few OCing Questions from a Noobie

[Caveman]

Soon to be Specs:

Cooler Guys Wind Tunnel IV (it's got the slide out MoBo tray)
Antec 400 W PS
Athlon 1800 XP
PAL 8045 with 80 mm YS Tech 48 CFM
Epox 8kha+
Crucial 2400 @ CAS 2 2 2
SB Audigy
Leadtek GeForce 3 Ti 500

Couple 'O Questions...

I'm a total Noobie at all this "computer stuff" and this is my 1st system build. I'm planning to OC after I get the system stable, and I'm wondering how one goes about this process... It seems as though all I need to do is tweak the FSB setting in the bios to something higher than the stock 133 and the true clock speed will also increase to that ratio, right? i.e., if I change the number to 150 from 133 (a 12.7% difference), I should see my CPU raise from 1530 MHz to 1726 MHz right, as well as a 300 MHz on my DDR memory?

Also, will all my components like the sound and video card also be raised in clock speed or do I tweak the video card separately?

What about the need for "bumping up the voltage"? When does one need to consider this and is this what "unlocking the L1" is all about?

 

[GUN]

You right.
Your cpu muliplier is 11.5 and clock speed is 133mhz standard.
Your cpu speed is thus 133 * 11.5 = 1533mhz.

Here r some basics.
The easy way to overclock your fututre system would be to pump up the clock, however to change the muliplier on a xp, you will need to unlock the cpu by closing some very tiny briges with car window defroster repair paint.

By upping your clock to say 145 mhz you would also increase your Front Side Bus(FSB) from 266(133*2) to 290(145*2).

Your DDR memory speed is equal to your cpu clock speed x 2.

Your pci clock is also directly related to your cpu clock and memory speed ie. (133.3/4 = 33.33 or 145/4 = 36.25mhz).
Your AGP bus speed = pci speed*2 = 66.6mhz @ AGP 1X. At AGP 4X your bus speed will be 66.6*4 or 72.5*4.
Your sound card and video card bus speed will thus also be proportionaly higher.

There should be no need to overclock your sound card, but your graphics card can be overclocked seperately, by increasing the GPU core speed and video memory speed with software like Rivatuner.

As far as the volts go.
Increasing the volts on your cpu or memory can increase stability on a overclocked system, but it produces more heat.
Generaly you dont need to do this unless you want to break some overclocking record.

High FSB and memory speeds favour gaming the most, because of the increase in potential data bandwidth.
eg. A system running at 1522mhz(145*10.5) will outperform a system running at 1533mhz(133*11.5) when it comes to OpenGL or Direct X games.

Good luck, and congrats on that yummy future system.