Originally posted by: crazylegs
is this your first attempt at OCing? Think your taking slightly the wrong approach. My first OC (bk on an AMD64 3000+) followed lengthy research here and on other inet resources. Then when actually doing the OC / stress testing u have to figure out how far each of ur components can go.
You should be really carefull when OCing, watch temps, stress test, like Flipped Gaselle mentioned, there is no perfect or one size fits all set of numbers you can use.
No disagreement with others here, but I offer some insight on "shortcuts that are not so short."
There are several ways to read a book. Most people go cover-to-cover. If you need information, you start with the index, TOC and key chapters, to "absorb it in parallel" instead of serially.
Look around for comparison reviews of the board, processor and memory. Look at forum posts at the board-manufacturer's web-site. In fact, look at forum posts for the memory-maker. You should find overlaps where combinations of the same hardware appear.
Some reviews will put a motherboard through its paces, offering a range of OC settings obtained with certain memory and the CPU, and occasionally, you will find reviews that are practically an over-clocking roadmap guide.
With this information in hand, you can proceed through Graysky's methodology, but with some idea of "nominal over-clock settings" that are likely to succeed quickly -- a basis for more methodical ascents to greater heights.
If you do this carefully, you may be able to totally avoid the hair-pulling, hand-wringing crises of "BSODs" as you stress-test your configuration and settings.
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