Hi Everyone,

New guy here.  VERY little experience and knowledge.  Just built my second computer with the 6150k8ma 8ekrs, single corsair xms 1 gig DDR 400, no video card, crappy little 250 watt power supply, and AMD athlon 64 3000+ CPU.  This is my first attempt at overclocking.  Here are the results.  Any questions, comments, advice???

First attempt.  Changed nothing but FSB.  Made it to 230 with occasional weirdness.  Bumped up vcore 20mv, and memory voltage 50mv.  Seemed quite stable doing stress analysis with Solidworks/Cosmosworks.

I then tried the following.  Put voltages back to stock.  Reduced all HT multipliers to 3X, and brought mem speed down to 133.

Incrementally raised the FSB to 270 with no problems, the raised mem speed to 166.  Haven't tried going any further.

I have been running Prime 95 for 1.5 hours now (Still running while I write this) and browsing the internet with as many as 3 explorer windows open, plus the Foxconn Super Step so that I can monitor temps, and Outlook running all at once.  Temps stabilized at 30 system, and 41 CPU.

This seems quite amazing to me since I really have no idea what I am doing.  In fact I only lowered the multipliers and mem speed because I read it on the internet.  Did I just get lucky and stumble across a good setup?

The only thing I have noticed is that using Pass Mark for testing, my 3D graphics have slowed down.  Even at the current FSB speed, the graphics are still slower that they were at 230 fsb with all other settings stock.  They did get noticeably faster when I raised the mem speed to 166.

Any ideas?  Is there more to be gained?

I hope this helps someone, and I would be interested to hear from any experts.

PY