 Overclocking help
Hello fine folks, i just want to say first off, i know a fair bit about computers,so dont be scared to get technical. ive built more than 20 computers for myself, friends and family, BUT they've always been "cheep as you can please" so i never worried much about matching high end componants, and as such never bothered to learn anything to do with overclocking. Thats recently changed, i decided that since most parts nowdays are so cheep i'd buy what i thought was a pretty great rig. Ive read the OC guides and decided that instead of me learning what all that jargon actually means, i'd put the question out here, and learn it later ;D Here are the specs:
ASUS P5K Deluxe
Q6600 2.4
640mb en8800gts
4x 1024 Crucial Ballistix 1066
antec truepower 550w
With all settings on Auto and just the FSB on manual i've gotten 3524 mhz stable @ 42°C under load with both vista and xp
Ive booted to bios up to 3.88ghz so i'm hoping that with manual tuning i'll be able to go a wee bit higher than 3.5ghz.
now, if this was YOUR rig, what would you do to try and get it higher? what should the settings for everything else be set at before tweeking it a little for more? Looking forward to your input THX :D
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