Newbie overclocker needs help...

[max105]

I am going to get an Asus CUSL2-C soon and most likely a p3-700. I know increasing the voltage setting will help keep the CPU more stable, but does this hurt the rest of the system? Is there anything else I should be aware about other than that when it comes to overclocking? I know some AGP cards can't handle higher speeds, but will those cards that do operate at higher speeds die out earlier? thanks.

 

[JimMc]

With that MB and a PIII 700 your first overclocking stop will be at a 133 Mhz FSB, your AGP will still be in spec at a 1/2 divider. You can push higher than 133 and your AGP will get slightly out of spec but porbably not enough to be a problem for most vid cards.

Increasing the voltage will only affect the CPU--more volts, more heat.

 

[DND]

basically.. if you have cheap stuff in your computer.. yes... instability and yes it will die out earlier.. No adjusting the CPU voltage will not harm anything else.. unless it catches on fire and burns all your other hardware. High FSB can harm anything else in the AGP PCI or even ISA slots. Dont' forget the harddrive and other hardware.

 

[Wuming]

you have to make sure that when you are choosing non-standard (not 66, 100 or 133 mhz) fsb, you may be underclocking or overclocking your PCI or AGP bus speeds from their standard 33 mhz and 66 mhz respectively. older hdd may not be able to take too high a bus speed than normal and so you may suffer from data corruption in such cases. as for the AGP bus speed, i haven't had any bad experiences with it yet so i am not sure what adverse effects may come from overclocking it. higher cpu core voltages are required for stability but yes, it shortens the cpu life. but you probably would change a cpu before it runs out.

good luck overclocking!

 

[max105]

hmm..well the specs on my system are:

ATI Radeon 32mb DDR
Sound Blaster Live!
128mb Kingston pc133 Valueram
Netgear 10/100 NIC
Lucent ISA 56k Modem.

I'm pretty sure the Radeon can handle the overclocking, but I don't have to worry about the life span of these components when it comes to overclocking right? Also, is there a different voltage setting that changes the voltage for the whole motherboard and the components too? Or is there only one kind of voltage setting that is solely for the CPU? thanks for the replies guys.

 

[decade2000]

I believe the Vio setting is for memory and pci slot. Some new boards also have Vagp.