athlon 3000+

[Disvengeance]

Im getting an Athlon Xp 3000+ from newegg today, and was wondering if anyone could give me an estimate of to how much i can over clock it from 2.17 ghz, i have seven 80mm case fans

ive never overclocked before, so any advice u can give me would be appreciated

[leishi85]

if you are aircooling it, and without knowing the steppings and such, i would says about 2.3gh with good heatsink.

[Disvengeance]

Could u maybe tell me all of the steps required, i have no clue what im doing here, i dont wanna melt my processor or something

[mondi]

depends on what motherrboard/ram/bios you have.... whats the full specs of your system

[leishi85]

if you don't know much about overclocking, i suggest you read some articles, and explaining the basics, for example
Read THIS (http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,210182,00.asp)

[Disvengeance]

i have a DFI lanparty kt400a motherboard, with 2x Geil 256 pc3200 400 mhz ddr ram, and my bios is award bios

[mondi]

i cant explain it any better than the extremetech article that leishi posted ... read that and start to experiment, remember though... and I cant stress this enough - go up in SMALL increments ... also with what ive read about that board you may have better luck with upping the multiplier rather than the FSB, each one is different though, just be careful and make sure with each increment that you fully test you system for stability ...

[Disvengeance]

k ill try that, thanks