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I have never overclocked in my life, but i want to... please can someone explain...
I own a packard bell istart 2365, it has a nvidia g force 9500gt gfx card, dual screen, a master 80gb and 120gb slave ide harddrives, 2 cd drives, a cpu of somesort... its a pentium 4, but the pc has 4 other fans, and a cold cation kit... i just really want to know what it does and how to do it...

Playing dumb here...
 
Well for starters here is the OC 101 thread. That is the best place to start:

http://www.computerforum.com/16346-overclocking-101-oc101.html

Since you have a prebuilt desktop, it is unlikely that your BIOS will allow overclocking your CPU. You can check for any advanced options that will mess with the frequency of the cpu but again I doubt that they will be there.

You can probably OC your GPU. I don't think that there should be any problem there. there are a lot of programs that can OC your GPU but my favorite is MSI Afterburner.

http://event.msi.com/vga/afterburner/download.htm

Use the sliders to increase the frequency of your GPU by 5-10MHz a time hit apply and then test for stability. Only do one slider at a time. This will be the easiest way to se what is causing instability in your OC. Every time you check for stability look at your temps and make sure that they are in an acceptable range. Test in games or other GPU intensive applications. If you see artifacts in your screen then you need to back off at least 10MHz.

Here is an example of artifacting (the white dots)

http://www.geeks3d.com/public/jegx/200906/furmark-artifact-gainward-hd-4870-gold-sample-01.jpg

EDIT: artifacting can be anything that is not what the image is supposed to be but the dots or fuzz seems to be common if an artifact shows up.
 
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salvage-this said:
Well for starters here is the OC 101 thread. That is the best place to start:

http://www.computerforum.com/16346-overclocking-101-oc101.html

Since you have a prebuilt desktop, it is unlikely that your BIOS will allow overclocking your CPU. You can check for any advanced options that will mess with the frequency of the cpu but again I doubt that they will be there.

You can probably OC your GPU. I don't think that there should be any problem there. there are a lot of programs that can OC your GPU but my favorite is MSI Afterburner.

http://event.msi.com/vga/afterburner/download.htm

Use the sliders to increase the frequency of your GPU by 5-10MHz a time hit apply and then test for stability. Only do one slider at a time. This will be the easiest way to se what is causing instability in your OC. Every time you check for stability look at your temps and make sure that they are in an acceptable range. Test in games or other GPU intensive applications. If you see artifacts in your screen then you need to back off at least 10MHz.

Here is an example of artifacting (the white dots)

http://www.geeks3d.com/public/jegx/200906/furmark-artifact-gainward-hd-4870-gold-sample-01.jpg

EDIT: artifacting can be anything that is not what the image is supposed to be but the dots or fuzz seems to be common if an artifact shows up.
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erm... i dont get it :L

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2221173817538.131086.1493486808&saved there is the link to all the photos... the spec is a photo in that album...
 
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What part don't you get? If it is everything then just give me an area and I'll do my best to explain it to you.
 
Ok... well here is a CPU example. Maybe that will help

So in a system there is a number called the FSB. For my system it is stock at 200 MHz. There is also a multiplier. The combination of the two give you your clock speed.

for example...

Stock speed for my Phenom II 955:

FSB x Multiplier = clock speed
200 MHz x 16 =3200 MHz or 3.2 Ghz

So when overclocking there are 3 ways to change the frequency if your CPU
1. change the FSB
2. Change the multiplier
3. combination of both.

So right now I have my settings as follows

200 x 19 = 3800 MHz or 3.8GHz

You could also achieve this by changing the fsb and leaving the multiplier alone

238 x 16 = Approx. 3800 MHz or 3.8GHz

Or use both.

224 x 17 = Approx. 3800 MHz or 3.8GHz


So what does this do? Overclocking will raise the core clock of your cpu and will make all applications run faster because you can process data faster.

Hope that helps
 
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