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Old 23/10/06, 19:22
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Hi!

I've had my computer for +- 2 years now and I'm plannig on getting a new one end of next year, but I'd like to squeeze the last little bit out of this baby before I do that. (Just to be able to play those new release at a decent frame rate.)

So basilcy I'm looking to oveclock some components in my computer. (CPU, RAM and GPU).

My current sytems specs are as follows:

CPU:
AMD® Athlon™ 64 3000+ Socket 754 64-bit with Hyper Transport Technology, L1 128K, L2 512K cache (With very good air cooling, I must add)

Motherboard:
MSI K8N Neo3-F nForece4-4x, 6CH Audio, 1GB Lan, RAID 0&1,
800 FSB 1xPCI-e 16X, 1xPCI-e 1X, 3xPCI , 2x DDR400, 4xSATA

Memory:
Corsair® DDR400 256MB 184-pin: PC3200, CL2.5/3 clock, 6-
layer PCB (BUT WILL BE UPGRADING TO 1GB RAM soon!)

Graphics:
Gigabyte® nVidia Geforce 6600 TURBO EDITION PCI-Express
16X 256MB 128 Bit DDR /

Is it advisable to overclock??? And if so, how much would I be able to get out of it?

I am aware that overclocking the CPU is very dependant on the speed of the RAM and as mentioned in another thread, my motherboard will only support DDR400.

What would be the best way for me to go about?

Thanks!
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