I'm thinking about overclocking my PC

[Miyahon]

But I don't know where to start or what it's best to clock. Everything runs pretty cool so I guess I have some heat to spare.

the specs are as follows

processer: Pentium 4, 3 gigahertz, 530j hyperthreading

ram: pc2 3200 DDR2. 1 gig

graphics card: geforce nvidia 5500, 256 megabytes

soundcard, everyones favorite 16 bit creative soundblaster card

So what should i overclock and how do you recomend doing that?

[MrX]

Man if i were you i would really read up on overclocking because you can kill your computer if you messup!

[Miyahon]

hence why i'm asking for advice and resources.

[MrX]

Ok go to this forum and post in the overclocking bord.
http://forums.pcper.com/index.php?

[speed stick]

I'm not sure how overclockable intels are. AMD are suppost to be great though. Not that that helps. Nuke should have plently of info whenever he gets around to reading this.

[Benson]

On stkco cololing intels are no good.

[SuperLuigiBros]

im scared that my computer will fuck up if i do it. Just leave it man, dont be greedy

[MrX]

On stkco cololing intels are no good.
I think you trying to say On stock cooling intels are no good?

[___]

I thought he said on sticks coloring intels are no good.

[Gegenki]

He said stock.
I'm not sure i checked before changing my heatsink for a quieter one but my intel was running at 64degreess in games and about 50degrees normal - and thats just at the bios screen. And I know the original ran at 3,000rpm - was very loud.
My new dual core AMD is running at 35 degreess right now which isnt normal. Its usually cooler! about 30degrees, as far as my monitoring goes I've never seen it even reach 50degrees only 48 after running at full load for about 20 - 30 minutes. I dunno how fast the cpufan is going or what the max speed is cause its only goes up when I turn on my computer in the first few seconds and when it goes about 50degrees and as you might imagine that would keep it at 50degreees anyway.

Judging from what you said you really should read up. Overclocking is a slow process of changing settings by a tiny bit, then starting your system again. Its long and boring which is why I havent done it.

With my old intel 2.8GHz I clocked it up to 3.0 and it worked fine. Tried to go over and when i tried to start up the bios went dodgy - as it was starting up all the text was green and highlighted in red :ko:
was undamaged luckily

[Garfunkel]

if you are happy with your performance, dont do it, i was gonna overclock my 4200+ DC but i cant imagine a world running any faster.

[Brandon]

Make sure you have a really good heatsink/cooling system. Things can get mighty hot when you're overclocking your PC.

[WolfmanNCSU]

One of the first places to look is how to cool her down. This is what prevents me from pushing my machine any further.

[MrX]

Well lets do this if you have stock cooling STOP NOW!Your stock hsf cannot take the additional heat!