How do you overclock?

[Jayhaide]

I'm hearing lots of people talking about overclocking their CPU.
how do you do it?

I know it's like pushing your CPU further than the companies designed it to go, but how would you do it?

 

[ichundu]

before you can overclock you'll need to read at some overclocking guides. search on google, you'll find a plenty of them. here's one:

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/240001-29-howto-overclock-quads-duals-guide

this is a very popular guide. i've seen it in many sites.

good luck

 

[bigd54]

Yah read some guides its not to hard to do. Just takes time and patience. Mess with the fsb, the multiplyer, voltages, memory timings. All of it is done in the bios.

 

[Mitch?]

http://www.computerforum.com/cpus-overclocking/announcements.html
At the top of most of our divisions of forum (EX Ram and Memory, Cpu and Overclocking, Software etc) there are stickied items, they are pretty resourceful and easy to read.

 

[Briguy]

Don't they have free software out there that will run a stress test on your cpu and memory and will give you the most stable timings for overclocking?

 

[colt1911]

MemTest is used to check your memory for errors and most people use Prime95 or Orthos to stress test cpu for stability. As far as learning to overclock there is a Announcement Thread at the top of the cpu and overclocking section by apj101 which will get you started . After you have read it then if you have more questions just come back and ask .