nvidiaintel

new to overclocking, and was just wondering if my rig was good enough to use as a starting point. any suggestions on upgrading? ta.

ENTERPRISE

Well any computer can be oced to a certain point as long as its not a prebuilt system like dell

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The_Manual

Welcome to the forum

Your rig would be a good starting point for overclocking, however there are several problems with it.
First of all your motherboard is an Intel motherboard, these boards can not be overclocked by the BIOS, software has to be used to overclock the board, this limits the amount the board can be overclocked. A good piece of software (if it supports your board) is Clockgen www.cpuid.com this will allow you to raise the FSB speed thus increasing the clock speed.

Secondly your memory is only PC2100 (266MHz) this will limit the amount your system can be overclocked. The 266MHz RAM is designed to run with a FSB of 533MHz, if the FSB goes above that value the memory will run above its rated speed, as its oldish memory it will not run much faster above its rated speeds and this will hinder your overclocking to a degree.

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Ste

I'm not sure you can overclock with that Motherboard, check in the bios to see if you can change the FSB. If you can't you'll need to upgrade that first.
Good luck