Tons of questions about overclocking (never did it before)

[Arkitech]

I have what I think is an Athlon XP 2800 that was given to me (I should have looked closer at the CPU when installing everything). So I go into the bios (Phoenix) and under advanced chipset features I have an option to adjust the CPU external frequency. Its currently set to 100mhz but it can be set to 133, 166 or 200. Can I choose 200mhz without burning anything up?

I'm kind of a newb when it comes to playing with the BIOS and overclocking componets so I really don't know what the rule of thumbs is when it comes to these things. If you guys don't mind I'd like to list out some of the options in my BIOS and maybe you can tell me what they mean and what they should be adjusted to.

ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES
CPU External Freq
100 mhz (current setting)
133 mhz
166 mhz
200 mhz

CPU Frequency Multiple Settings
Auto (current setting)
Menu

System Performance
Optimal (current setting)
Aggresive
User Defined

Memory Frequency
By SPD (current setting)
Auto

FSB Spread Spectrum
Disabled
0.50 % (current setting)
1.00 %

AGP Spread Spectrum
Disabled (current setting)
0.50%

CPU Vcore Setting
Auto (current setting)
Menu

Graphics Aperture Size
32mb
64mb (current setting)
128mb
256mb
512mb

AGP Frequency
Auto (current setting)
50 Mhz
66 Mhz
(67-100 Mhz) all cycles in between

System BIOS Cacheable
Disabled (current setting)
Enabled

Video RAM Cacheable
Disabled (current setting)
Enabled

DDR Reference Voltage
2.6v (current setting)
2.7v
2.8v

AGP VDDQ Voltage
1.5v (current setting)
1.6v
1.7v

THanks for any advice on the best way to configure these settings

EDIT:

Additional info: SiSoft Sandra gives me the following on this system

CPU - AMD Athlon (model not given) 1.24 ghz
Mainboard - ASUSTek - A7N8X-X
Video Card - Radeon X850X
Memory - 2.3GB DDR-SDRam

 

[boomerang]

Post this in CPU/Processors and Overclocking

 

[Arkitech]

Originally posted by: boomerang
Post this in CPU/Processors and Overclocking

ahh good point

 

[Arkitech]

to anyone who cares I bumped up the cpu ext frequency to 166 and I set the mem frequency to auto and now XP sees my Athlon as a 2800 running at 2.08 ghz.


I'm still curious about those AGP settings, anyone familiar with tweaking those? In particular the settings under Grapics Aperture Size and AGP frequency.