I don't get why...

Try it and see, a little at a time... the worst thing that could happend is it won't post or boot to windows. Then you just go into bios and try to find whats causing the instability.
 
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i think its kinda pointless really to OC, ur only hurting ur GPU/CPU and shortening the life, but yes u do get those extra things to it, but i dont think its worth it for somting u paid for and were happy with before Ocing
 
i think its kinda pointless really to OC, ur only hurting ur GPU/CPU and shortening the life, but yes u do get those extra things to it, but i dont think its worth it for somting u paid for and were happy with before Ocing

Oh no I am shortening a 10yr CPU's life by 2yr's. When it will be outta date in 2yr's. :P
 
Try it and see, a little at a time... the worst thing that could happend is it won't post or boot to windows. Then you just go into bios and try to find whats causing the instability.

Yeah, I guess, so you think those settings look good?
 
lol 26 is retirement age where he lives I guess
I should go live there, I'd love to be retired.
Try it and see, a little at a time... the worst thing that could happend is it won't post or boot to windows.
I can think of a few things that are worse that could happen :P

You're right though, unless you go crazy it's fairly safe. You can go more than 5-10MHz at a time at the beginning but when it has trouble back it down a step and then increase 5-10MHz.
 
So what could go wrong if I'm following the steps in the first post? Is that what you did Cromewell, I know you have a 965P?
 
If you don't go crazy (ie follow your first post) then nothing is likely to go wrong and you pretty much only have to worry about it not POSTing or not being stable enough to run windows.

I was just saying worse things can happen. Do I think you will damage anything if you overclock your system? No. If you want to give a try go for it, as long as you are careful with your voltages and temperatures there's very little to worry about :)
 
Even at stock voltage you should be able to get quite a bit more clock speed out of it. Use a program like CPU burnin (have to run a seperate instance for each CPU core) or Orthos (http://sp2004.fre3.com/) to test the stabilty
 
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Do you think I could get 2.8Ghz outta this thing?

So here's the steps, Look good?

Lock the PCI-e bus to 100Mhz
Lock the PCI bus to 33.33Mhz
Turn all the voltages to manual but leave them as they are.
Set the V Core to 1.325v
Set the RAM voltage to 2.1v (defualt for XMS2)
Disable EIST1, Speed Spectrum and stuff like that (what are they, I forget )
Set the RAM timings to 5-5-5-15, and then 4-4-4-12 if it's stable
Set the RAM divider to 1:1
Slowly raise the FSB 5 - 10 Mhz at a time
 
I don't know how high it will go. I wouldn't be suprised if you could get it that high though.

The steps look ok to me. Like I said earlier, don't be afraid to raise the FSB more than 5-10MHz at the start but as it gets higher you'll want to go in smaller steps until you hit 5-10MHz at a time.
 
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