Hey folks,
I'm new here and I have a few questions to get me started. I've never overclocked anything before (except a toaster that I accidentally blew up by hooking up to WAY too high a voltage receptacle. I didn't know you could melt metal THAT fast with electricity)
What I got
TWO of these machines
AMD Athlon XP 3000+ Barton Core 400mhz FSB
Ultra DDR Single Channel 2x512 PC3200 400mhz FSB
Soyo KT880 Dragon 2 Mainboard
XFX GeForce FX 5700LE 256mb DDR (operating in 4x mode since DOOM 3 seems to hate 8x when drawing 2D stuff)
Onboard Rhine Family Gigabit Nic
C.L. Audigy 2 ZS Sound Card
Western Digital 80gb ATA100 7200rpm 8mb cache HDD
Case Cooling is performed by 2 80mm Coolmax Case fans
CPU Cooling is a Thermaltake Extreme Volcano 12
Power is Ultra 500w with dual 80mm fans
Case is from the Antec Dragon Series with Clear Side and PCI 80mm fan
Cables are all rounded IDE for airflow
I have never seen the temp on CPU or in the case go above 46C but I haven;t had these machines through a Colorado Summer yet.
My question is where do I begin tweaking these beasts. One of them is currently running Windows XP Pro SP2, the other is functioning as my home's central server and is runnign Windows 2003 Enterprise Server in preparation for the cluster nodes I'm building. (Having an MSDN Universal is SWEET for my test environment)
I'm new here and I have a few questions to get me started. I've never overclocked anything before (except a toaster that I accidentally blew up by hooking up to WAY too high a voltage receptacle. I didn't know you could melt metal THAT fast with electricity)
What I got
TWO of these machines
AMD Athlon XP 3000+ Barton Core 400mhz FSB
Ultra DDR Single Channel 2x512 PC3200 400mhz FSB
Soyo KT880 Dragon 2 Mainboard
XFX GeForce FX 5700LE 256mb DDR (operating in 4x mode since DOOM 3 seems to hate 8x when drawing 2D stuff)
Onboard Rhine Family Gigabit Nic
C.L. Audigy 2 ZS Sound Card
Western Digital 80gb ATA100 7200rpm 8mb cache HDD
Case Cooling is performed by 2 80mm Coolmax Case fans
CPU Cooling is a Thermaltake Extreme Volcano 12
Power is Ultra 500w with dual 80mm fans
Case is from the Antec Dragon Series with Clear Side and PCI 80mm fan
Cables are all rounded IDE for airflow
I have never seen the temp on CPU or in the case go above 46C but I haven;t had these machines through a Colorado Summer yet.
My question is where do I begin tweaking these beasts. One of them is currently running Windows XP Pro SP2, the other is functioning as my home's central server and is runnign Windows 2003 Enterprise Server in preparation for the cluster nodes I'm building. (Having an MSDN Universal is SWEET for my test environment)