Yes, I am a huge newbie at OC'ing.
Before now I didn't really have a reason to do it, but with Crysis, I have to take everything I can get. Luckily, My system is made for OC'ing (Purposely bought it for that purpose)
I have a nVidea 8600 GTS (256MB on board RAM) Which needs some heavy OC'ing.
2 GB of DDR2 RAM Running at (I believe) 800mHz
and in most need of OC'ing... an Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2 GHz (native speed).
umm.. its EExxx (whatever), I just remember its really good for OC'ing My friend's dad (who works as a programmer) said its one of the best OC'ing CPUs... I trust him as he said he bought it for his OC'ing machine.
Oh yes, my MoBo is an Asus P5K-VM, which has some handy tools in case my OC'ing doesn't go according to plan. ^_^;;
Any extra info needed, just ask, I'll get my lazy ass downstairs and get those boxes...
i read that post and all i heard was the sound of Charlie Brown's teacher talking
"waah waah waahwah. wahwah waaah"
i'm gonna wait for some else to respond and agree with them to look like i know something about computers ^_^
well go into the BIOS and start increasing the FSB slightly, make sure your memory clock doesn't deviate too much from what you have it on.
If the computer doesn't boot, go back down to the last FSB you used, Once their get a stress testing app like SuperPi or Prime95 and leave that going for a couple of hours.
If all is well then success! If not then you'll need to bump up the core voltage a bit. If it fails a gain bump up the core voltage again (If it's still failing at around 1.45V, go down to a slightly lower FSB and put your core voltage back to 1.3)
You may or may not want to change your memory timings and PCI-E Clock (I'd advise setting it to 100 and leaving it)
Oh and since it's an Asus mobo, make sure you have AsusProbe open whilst you run Prime95/SuperPi because then you can see if you're making too much heat (Don't let it go past about 60 degrees Celsius)
well go into the BIOS and start increasing the FSB slightly, make sure your memory clock doesn't deviate too much from what you have it on.
If the computer doesn't boot, go back down to the last FSB you used, Once their get a stress testing app like SuperPi or Prime95 and leave that going for a couple of hours.
If all is well then success! If not then you'll need to bump up the core voltage a bit. If it fails a gain bump up the core voltage again (If it's still failing at around 1.45V, go down to a slightly lower FSB and put your core voltage back to 1.3)
You may or may not want to change your memory timings and PCI-E Clock (I'd advise setting it to 100 and leaving it)
Oh and since it's an Asus mobo, make sure you have AsusProbe open whilst you run Prime95/SuperPi because then you can see if you're making too much heat (Don't let it go past about degrees Celsius)
How many degrees? xD
I'm guessing 50?
I only plan on sticking with stock cooling for now. So I doubt I'll be able to get too much out of it...
I'll try this on the weekend when I have time, for now I have work an exams to "study" for.
For your graphics card download nVidia's overclock tool (don't remember the name) and tinker with the settings a bit. Those settings get saved onto the HDD as a profile which you can turn on and off at will. Everytime your computer boots just load up the overclocked profile in the nVidia tool and test it a bit. The ATi equivalent is called ATiTool (in fact I believe that works on nVidia GPUs)
When you're confident with the settings access the GPU BIOS and lock those settings. Unfortunately my mobo doesn't have a very customizable BIOS -_-
edited :3
60 degrees.
and as for flashing your GPUs BIOS don't.
if you REALLY want to know how then PM me but there's a chance you'll brick your graphics card.
Just use Rivatuner, nTune or ATiTool.
Yes.. bricking my just none-to-old graphics card wouldn't be high on my list of things to do.
Ok, I realize that before I do this I should update my BIOS, which I haven't done yet.
Simple reason why, the ASUS BIOS Updater just never feels like connecting to the server. Is there a manual way of updating the BIOS?
In fact, I bought the MoBo just a month ago.. I'll check now to see if the updater works...
EDIT: "too many users.. blah blah blah.. try again later"
if you only just bought it, odds are on that it's already got the most recent BIOS installed already.