OC attempts...

Marty · October 18th, 2009, 06:06 PM

Ok, so I'm contemplating an overclock. My system is running really smoothly, but everything I've read about my components says that there is a lot more power to be had.

I played around with OCing before and it was successful. I ran a 2500 mobile chip running at 3.21 on air for over 3 years. I upgraded to my current system last summer, but I've yet to venture into the bios - until today.

The bios seems pretty straight forward, but it still sketches me out to start messing with the stock settings.

Where do I start?

Here is my system:

Asus P5Q
6gb kingston ram
Intel E8400
Nvidia 9800 GT
2 sata drives in raid 0
1 tb storage drive
1 500gb back up

Windows 7 - 64bit

Let me know what you think. I only have air cooling, so I'm assuming that there are limitations to what I can accomplish.

Thanks,

Marty

Sazabizc · October 19th, 2009, 05:28 AM

are you trying to oc everything or just the cpu?

Marty · October 27th, 2009, 02:48 PM

I'm not sure... Do you have any suggestions? I'd like to squeeze a little more power out of the cpu and gpu. Is there anything else that's worth trying?

Zamoldac · October 27th, 2009, 05:46 PM

OC'ing your cpu would be the smartest and most reward-full thing to do little to be gain from the gpu.

Marty · October 27th, 2009, 05:55 PM

Ok, that's what I thought. Now the challenge is understanding the bios. It was a much simpler thing to do with previous mobos.

Zamoldac · October 27th, 2009, 06:00 PM

Try searching a review of your motherboard and start from there i wish i could have helped you with it but i only used gigabyte.

Marty · October 27th, 2009, 06:07 PM

No problem. Thank you for the advice. I'm going to do some research this aft. Cheers!