Overclocking my "OLD" CPU

[pkellz]

Hey guys,
I'm sure that there was already a post about this, but personally I don't have the time to go hunting through the site. Plus, I'm a newb in OCing and mostly all the sticky's were about shit Ive never even heard of. Pretty much, it's an easy task that I'm asking (from what I hear). I want to overclock my AMD Athlon 64 3800+ Venice to an exceptional speed (Hence "OLD"). I heard that overclocking though Ai booster is a bad idea and that the BIOS is the premium method. Like I said, I don't really want to go to crazy since it is an old processor and because I really don't need to do it. It's more of a personal thing I'm going for, you know, just to try it out. So, if you guys could take the time to help me, it would be respectfully appreciated -pkellz

 

[soccerballtux]

honestly if you don't have time to do a search on socket 939 overclocking, you probably don't have time to bother with overclocking.

 

[VirtualLarry]

1. lower HT multi, DRAM multi, set DRAM timings manually in BIOS rather than use SPD.
2. increase FSB, or if your chip is multi-unlocked, you can increase the multi too.
3. increase vcore when it errors, repeat at 2, until vcore exceeds safe amount, or temps get too bad running prime95.

 

[betasub]

I don't really want to go to crazy since it is an old processor

No, go crazy because is it only an old processor.