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Overclocking 1st time fun...

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Just thought I'd share my first O/C experience with you all. I had my compute rup to 225 FSB on 9/10 ram divider(my lone crucial 1 gb stick doesnt like going much over 200 mhz). So, with success thus far, I decided to push my cpu further. I eventually wind up at 240 with a 5/6 divider, keeping the ram at a nice 200 mhz. First the computer won't load, then when it finally does, I get far enough into prime to get the rounding error(.5 instead of .4 or something like that) which, as described by the O/C guide, means I've pushed my memory too far, but it's only at 200mhz...WTF!!!! Sitting here for 30 minutes trying to figure it out(and mildly cursing at the computer), eventually I realize that I left the HTT(LDT, whatever) multiplier at 5, bringing the total to 1200mhz...wooops. Took it down to 4x, increase cpu voltage to 1.425 for good measure, and it's nice and stable now. :D
 
nice, my first overclock was my p133 to 166 haha, then my p200 which made it to 295 on an upgraded heat sink... overclocking this venice i have was a real learning experience, but its paid off so far... in fact right now temps are reported as 37C at idle... dunno how accurate that is, probly a few degrees off, but not bad temp wise for a 3000+ at 2800mhz
 
lol. I remember the first time i overclocked. Back on my old Celeron 333, was my first computer. Didnt know anything about them, or what OCing was, or even what the FSB was ;). I wa sjust in the BIOS one day and saw a 'Front Side Bus' and it said 66MHz (5*66), and i noticed it would let me change it up to 83MHz. So being your average computer n00b i saw 83MHz and thought ' Cool!' so of course i set it and saved the settings, then it rebooted at 416MHz. I was very lucky on that system in many ways. It had the stock intel heatsink, no voltage options, no temp monitoring, nothing at all, yet that system ran 100% solid at 5*83. Ahhh the good old days ;)
 
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