I am soon to get my new system (2-3 days) which happens to be a Athlon64 3200+ and i see where many people have these processors and P4 where people have overclocked, in some cases, teh 3200+ to the speeds of a 3500+ or even a 3800+How is overclocking done/acheived. Is there a certain program downloaded to do this?Happy Holidays! :-wave

http://www.amdboard.com/ocspecial.htmlGreg

what a head ache. :-(is there a program you can download to do it?

No. Not really.There are programs that may tweak a few settings but they certainly wo't OC your cpu (the correct way).

If you want to go the overclocking route, you must be prepared to read and experiment a little - with overclocking you take on some engineering yourself. What motherboard do you have, BTW?Gary

Overclocking does take of a lot of research in order to minimize the increased risk you're placing the equipment under.Before you start, make sure all your software, configuration data, and user data is backed up because overclocking past the limits can break you operating system before it breaks your hardware. Therefore, a good time to experiment with overclocking would be just after a fresh reformat and install of your operating system, benchmarking, and torture test programs (before the HD is loaded down with tons of programs and user data that it would be laborious to backup/reinstall).Proceed incrementally and keep an eye on all the temperature readings you can get!! As a final reality check backup, know the difference between a "happy warm" and a "bad warm" electrical smell. ;-)

There is overclocking programs that let you overclock through windows. Very convenient on mainboards that don

Par,I use clockgen very successfully with my new A64 setup, including changing voltage, bus speed and multiplier on the fly. I have set up a couple of scripts that allow me to select on the fly either coolest (800MHz @ 0.9V), 2000+ (1.2GHz @ 1.2V), 3000+ (stock - 1.8GHz @ 1.4V), 3500+ (2.2GHz @ 1.4V) and max (2.43GHz @ 1.43V & 270MHz bus speed). It's a neat little program and, apart from when I experimentally change the settings to above maxiumum speed, it hasn't locked my system throughout the aforementioned speed range in over a week of use.Gary

Yeah probably something with mobiles than wouldn

I downloaded radlinker, oc for ATI cards, my 9600XT runs at 499MHZ core speed, what should i bump it up to first and is this safe to OC? first time ive ever done it.

Basically, going in 5mhz or 10mhz steps is a usual procedure.I myself am doing lots of overclocking, and basically there isn't piece of hardware that I bought that I didn't overclock :-)But as someone who knows more about overclocking then usual PC user, I can tell you, you HAVE TO READ and LEARN about it. Simply go into google and type "overclocking, graphic card overclocking, CPU OC" etc etc, and you will be pointed to virtually hundreds of websites that tell you lots of OCing, and also have FAQs and ReadMes for starters.Btw. OCing GraKa won't bring you much performance, don't expect some huge boosts. BUT, OCing CPU, is a different story, if you manage to OC both, to their top speeds, without your them or computer heating too much, then you made it. But watch out for the heat. Everything depends what kind of cooling you have...Testing graphics is good with both 3dMark and Fsim. 3d Mark will show lots of artifacts and Fsim usually much, but I know my Radeon shows so weird dots if I OC too much.

Yeah that is a tip. Don

Nvidia sucks anyway. Maybe new nForce thingies with SLI will do better, but I don't think that Nvidia will come over ATI anytime in the near future.

Would agree if it wasn

Not using that anyway, I'm all about performance, cuz I'm planning in getting TrackIR3+VE and then all I need basically are fast FPS...Anyway, with a little luck, in 2 weeks or so, I should have 3.4ghz PIV, Asus P5AD2-E Premium and Sapphire X800XT 256mb, 2x DDR2-RAM 512mb PC2-533mhz and 2 new 160gb Barracuda NCQ drives. That should IMO boost my performance significantly...