Need tips on a low level overclock.

[The Internal]

Other than setting my RAM timings to 2-2-2-5, I haven't overclocked anything. I'm reluctant to overclock since I literally made a Geforce 4 smoke a few years back. However, if someone could give me a good explaination or personal experience with doing a minor OC with stock cooling, please do.

 

[sundev]

You might want to check out the overclocking guide in this forum http://forums.anandtech.com/me...1072&enterthread=y
I think it's the first post..

Anyways I think basically what you're gonna want to try to do is up the FSB a little bit, and if the computer boots check out it's stability with a program like Prime95 or similar.

I'm not really familiar with the Barton 3200, but I think the multiplier is 11x and FSB is 200 (which equals 2.2 GHz, which I believe is the speed of the Barton 3200). Try upping the FSB to the next increment (210, 225, whatever), and see if the computer boots up. If it doesn't, then up the Vcore.. it's all explained very well in the guide.

Personally, I overclocked my computer (see sig) to 888 MHz, which is about 10%, without a problem. I did this with a slight increase in Vcore and with stock cooling. Runs great. I tried going higher, but the computer wouldn't boot.. not sure if it's because of crappy RAM or crappy cooling.