Until you smell smoke, then just a little bit more...
I'm a nOOb, been reading up. I have a 9700Pro AIW I mistakingly bought without the adapter to connect to my television (long story). What I was planning was running a benchmark like 3dMark between clock adjustments to determine optimal settings. My experience with o/c'ing is you start default, work your way up in small increments running a number of programs to verify no instabilities. I'd planned a similar strategy with the 9700Pro AIW sitting in my closet waiting for the cable to connect it to my system D: . God I hate EGay.