"Safest" overclocks

[crsgardner]

I recently finished a new rig, and for all intents and purposes, it screams. The important stats:

ASUS K8V SE Deluxe
Athlon 64 3200
3200 1 GB Mushkin RAM
2x10,000 RPM WD HD RAID
Radeon 9800 Pro

I want to overclock this system to tweak out a few more fps in UT2004, but I'm really hesitant to do so because I've heard horror stories about overclocked systems and RAID.

I assume the "safest" overclock I could perform (here's my few years of rust showing) is upping the core and memory on the video card. I'd rather not touch the voltage or bus speed, for fear of wrecking the RAID. I'm debating playing around with the memory timings but, again, I want a stable system, just a little faster.

Advice?

 

[Schadenfroh]

cant overclock the cpu, cept by way of the FSB, there is no agp/pci lock on your chipset, your overclocking options are limited

 

[crsgardner]

Well, I can definitely mess around with the video card's clock. I tweaked it up quite a bit and go a good bit of increase in a lot of benchmarks. I'm just wondering if this'll affect system stability outside video (which it shouldn't).

 

[crsgardner]

I can use a little more advice, if anyone can spare it. Should I go ahead and overclock the video card's core and memory?

 

[azndelite6983]

Not too knowledgeable about athlon systems, but the 9800pro should overclock very well as long as you have adequate cooling. You said you already oc'd the card though, so if your wondering how far you can push it, there are plenty of articles and probably forum posts on the 9800pro.

 

[JBT]

If you want more help finding the highiest clocks for the 9800 pro check out the RAGE3d OCing forums.