Overclocking an AMD Athlon 64 3500

Conor026

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I`m a newbie to overclocking, so here come my stupid questions.

I`m going to get an AMD Athlon 64 3500+, MSI K8N neo2 Platnium
and 2x512MB Geil UltraX PC3200 DDR-RAM.

I looked at the manual for the motherboard on the MSI website and
in the DRAM configuration there`s a setting for the Max memclock.
This can be set to 100, 133, 166, 200.
And then the FSB can be set to 200MHz to 300MHz (in 1MHz increments)

So if I want to overclock the 3500+,
I just up the FSB to say 233 (233x11=2563mhz), right?

But how do I overclock the RAM to the same speed as the FSB?
Does the RAM speed go up with the FSB?

Sidenote: I`ve heard alot of people abusing MSI, why?