What I understood from studying and reading this past few weeks, some summary and facts:

1) Processor speed is Multiplier x FSB.
2) First, leave memory setting at auto and overclock the processor to the highest FSB it can achieve.
3) Then, tweak RAM. In very lucky ideal cases (and if you are bloody rich and have uber expensive RAMS), we can get 1:1 ratio (synchronious) of FSB:RAM at tight timings. If not, look for the most stable setting between higher FSB and tight timings, running the RAM asynchroniously with dividers.
4) More often than not tight timings prevails over higher FSB for RAM.
5) Vcore limit is around 1.8V.
6) Vdimm limit is dependant on your motherboard and RAM. Usually RAM can eat up a whole lot of voltage.
7) Processor temperature should not exceed 60 C, keep it between 55 C and 60 C.
8) The best RAM timings for nForce2 boards are arguably 2-2-2-5 and 2-2-2-11. Experiment yourself.
9) Barton 2500+ is unlocked up to multiplier 12.5. Edit: Confused on how to access higher multiplier though... humm...
10) Always test for stability. Use SiSoft Sandra, 3Dmark03, 3Dmark01SE, Prime95, memtest86, CPU-Z, wcpuid.
11) Overclock your graphic card with RIVA Tuner.
12) Artifacts (picture quality defects) in your 3Dmark tests means the graphic card OC is not stable.

There. Hope it will be easier for newbies like me to understand. So, am I ready to OC yet or what? Please correct me if I'm wrong ok senpai? Thanks.

This post has been edited by dragonajie: Jul 17 2004, 07:32 AM