What's my potential...

[t3h_DirtBaG]

Hey all, new to the forums here, my first post w00t!

Anyhow, my current set up is as follows:

AMD Opteron 165 Denmark (230x9, stock volts), cooled by a Gigabyte G-Power Pro with Arctic Silver 5, (running at roughly 45-48C with fan on low)
ASUS A8N-SLI Premium
Corsair 1GB DDR400 ValueSelect RAM stick (i know its insufficient for OC'ing, but its what i got...)
Corsair 512MB DDR400 ValueSelect RAM stick

Currently, I'm in the process of burning in my CPU via OCing while maintaining stock volts, using dual instances of Folding@Home (contributing to the [H] team of course ) and keeping the comp on overnight. I was wondering if I could get some insight from other people having experience with some or all of the above parts/set ups. I know I'm stuck with a 9x multiplier for the CPU, but I wanna get an idea of how high and stable the ASUS A8N-SLI Premium can take me. Right now, it's only stable at a FSB of 230 @ stock volts. I raise it 1MHz FSB, and it crashes on me (I'm using the Ai Booster software that came with the mobo). I'm also wondering if I will eventually need new RAM (which i know i will ) and/or a new HSF (I'm having second thoughts about this Gigabyte HSF).

I'm pretty new to the whole OCing scene, but I've gathered enough to give it a bit of a start. I'm just trying to get a few more thoughts and ideas from some real peeps who have used and have experience doing this kinda stuff.

Thanks to everyone in advanced for giving my post a look I hope i gather some riveting facts about OCing!

 

[[BRO]Alaskan]

You have prob hit the wall on you memory. Try lowering the memory speed to 166mhz (it is really just a 5/6 miltiplier) and you should be able to get some more speed out of it. You might need to lower youe HTT to 4 (from 5) also

 

[Arcygenical]

You'll get to, whatever your chip can handle, by reducing the RAM divider accordingly!