Hello guys,
I'm currently building 3 pcs for me and 2 of my friends. I know that they don't know how to/won't overclock their rigs but I plan on doing it for mine. Now the 3 setups have the same hardware :
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice
OCZ DDR PC-3200 Premier Dual Channel CAS 2.5-3-3-7
Radeon x800 pro VIVO (will attempt the mod )
Samsung SpinPoint P 200GB - 7200RPM, 8MB Cache, SATA II
DFI LanParty UT nForce4 Ultra-D, Dual Gigabit LAN, SATA-RAID, Firewire, DDR400 (Socket 939)
The other 2 pcs will have the stock fans on the cpu and mine will have this :
Zalman CNPS7000B-Cu Quiet Copper CPU Cooler (Socket 462 / 478 / 754/ 939 / 940)
Now I have to prepare myself to overclock my hardware and maybe their's if I can get a small boost without disadvantages. I have 2 night to build all the 3 because my friends live 2 hours in car away from me and can't pick them up another day.
I'd like to test all the 3 cpus and ram for overclocking and keep the best parts for myself. According to a guide on this forum, I should test at which speed all the memory sticks can go without changing the timings, then test the CPUs and do some final tweaking. I don't think I'll have time to test everything with the final tweaks so can I only test the ram speed and cpu, keep the best of both and hope I can push them further later on.
Can anyone tell on how I could pull this off fast, without encountering too much problems and still have time for the software installs? I'm fairly new to OCing and I know this is the best place to get info!
I'm currently building 3 pcs for me and 2 of my friends. I know that they don't know how to/won't overclock their rigs but I plan on doing it for mine. Now the 3 setups have the same hardware :
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice
OCZ DDR PC-3200 Premier Dual Channel CAS 2.5-3-3-7
Radeon x800 pro VIVO (will attempt the mod )
Samsung SpinPoint P 200GB - 7200RPM, 8MB Cache, SATA II
DFI LanParty UT nForce4 Ultra-D, Dual Gigabit LAN, SATA-RAID, Firewire, DDR400 (Socket 939)
The other 2 pcs will have the stock fans on the cpu and mine will have this :
Zalman CNPS7000B-Cu Quiet Copper CPU Cooler (Socket 462 / 478 / 754/ 939 / 940)
Now I have to prepare myself to overclock my hardware and maybe their's if I can get a small boost without disadvantages. I have 2 night to build all the 3 because my friends live 2 hours in car away from me and can't pick them up another day.
I'd like to test all the 3 cpus and ram for overclocking and keep the best parts for myself. According to a guide on this forum, I should test at which speed all the memory sticks can go without changing the timings, then test the CPUs and do some final tweaking. I don't think I'll have time to test everything with the final tweaks so can I only test the ram speed and cpu, keep the best of both and hope I can push them further later on.
Can anyone tell on how I could pull this off fast, without encountering too much problems and still have time for the software installs? I'm fairly new to OCing and I know this is the best place to get info!