How good are my chances?

[Brent100]

Im in the process of deciding what I want to purchase for my PC Im building in the next few weeks. I was originally going to get a Athlon 3200+, but after reading about being able to overclock a 2500+ to 3200+ speeds, Im beginning to consider going that route to save some money. Ive read about people having success with being able to maintain these clockspeeds with stability and I have read some that cannot. Im wondering, if I have a Gigabyte-7NNXP, CORSAIR TWINX1024-3200LL ram and a decent HSF, should I be able to overclock a 2500+ to a stable 3200+ without problems? Im hesitant to do this because if I dont have good results, then spending the money on that 400FSB RAM would be quite the waste.

Thanks in advance

 

[Corporate Thug]

you are almost assured 2800+ speed speeds and very likely to get to 3200+

 

[minendo]

Overclocking is all chance and no guarantees.

 

[wetcat007]

Yeah at least 2800+, maybe more, depends i guess

 

[Yossarian]

Of course it may not be stable at anything higher than 2500+.