Overclocking questions

[MJDykas]

Hey Guy's.... great forum here, very informative, one of the best I seen so far. I just built a new PC with this board, everything is up and running. I flashed to the latest BIOS 2004, have all my updates and so far all is well. I have Corsair TwinXMS 6400pro # Tested at 5-5-5-12-T1 latency settings at 1.9V # SPD programmed at 5-5-5-12-T1 values for memory.
My system is liquid cooled CPU, 2 X GPU's I have a E6700 and 2xz ATI 1950's in crossfire mode.
I'm totally brain dead when it come to overclocking. I've read most of the post but there still is some things I'm not sure of. I know I can set my FSB to 333, I know how to do that..
I've tweaked my BIOS, by disabling all that needs to be for better performance. At first my DDR2 800 wasn't showing up as it should but I put in the right spec's above and thats all fine and dandy now. So I guess my questions are, Should I leave the multipier at 10 X 333 ?
I know this will change my memory timings, should I put them back to the above specs or leave them what they get set to after entering the new FSB # 266 to 333. I'm not interested to pushing the CPU to the max, just kind of want a tad more out of it, and keeping it stable too.

Also whats a good number for the 5th # in the manual mem settings....I'm at a loss at what it's called. Does the T1 value mean stock ? as is ?

Thanks in advance for any info

Mike

 

[o1die]

I know that some folks may disagree, but I no longer recommend overclocking for the casual gamer. It stresses components too much, and I've had friends fry video cards and motherboards. If you're cash poor, or very busy with school or work, I wouldn't do it. Get everything setup the way you like it and leave it alone.

 

[Butterbean]

That makes sense. I don't think a reasonably capable computer really needs to be rigged up.

 

[Germonicus]

Agreed....if you're at all worried about oc'ing then don't do it