How does a n00b like me overclock?

[JMU1337]

2100+ on an A7S333

I'm new to the overclocking world (finally upgraded my P3) and would like to get a little more speed out of my new system.
I know my speed is the multiplier x my fsb so last night I tried to bump my multiplier up from 13 to 14, figuring it would be a decent increase to start with.
The system rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted until I pulled the plug and moved the jumper to "kill" my software settings.

What did I do wrong? Do I need to "unlock" something? Is there some FAQ that can teach me all I need to know?

 

[pillage2001]

/waiting for Mr Champion to PIMP his infamous guide.

 

[DivideBYZero]

I've posted mine a couple times, should help you get started:

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This sort of info is Motherboard specific, but in most cases the menu's and settings are common. It breaks down like this:

- You CPU has a frequency
- Your Memory has a frequency
- Your PCI bus and all other sundry busses have a frequency

They are all related as (usually) one single clock genrator is used to get the original clock speed. The relationship is often like this, although there are ALWAYS exceptions:

CPU speed = Memory speed(before DDR or QDR) x Multiplier value.
PCI speed = Memory speed(before DDR or QDR) / 3 (or 4 or even 5, the goal speed is 33Mhz as PCI devices often hate high PCI bus speeds, such as hard discs=data coruption!!!)
AGP Speed = PCI speed x data rate(2x, 4x, 8x), so 2x = 66Mhz if the PCI is 33Mhz and so on

Multipliers are locked on P4 and can be changed on Athlons. Some motherboards allow the PCI clock to be locked into 33Mhz, this is good.

So, original speed of memory on a 400Mhz P4 is 100Mhz(400Mhz QDR) and the multiplier is 20, giving 2Ghz. To overclock, set the fsb to 110 and the CPU speed upon next boot will be 2.2Ghz (110x20).

Et Viola, your first overclock. Now I have simplified the process by a great margin and to answer your question about BIOS menu's, this will be clear if you get an Overclocking friendly Motherboard( ASUS, Abit, Epox), by way of the manual. They usually have a menu with the main overclocking features in one place.

Hope that helps!

 

[Shimmishim]

bah... j/k..

i've seen this post before somewhere

 

[ChampionAtTufshop]

w00t w00t!
h00003333 train is now arriving

lol

chek it

 

[LED]

Originally posted by: pillage2001
/waiting for Mr Champion to PIMP his infamous guide.

Actually I wish I didn't know that stufff already as it's 1 great guide...thanks Champ for Hooking it out there

 

[ChampionAtTufshop]

no problemo
it sure as hell beats writing a new response everytime someone asks the question lol


now i just linkz0rz it and im done....unless the ahve further questioning