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1. the max fsb is figured out by your quality of ram. you have to experiment with it and keep on going up and up.
2. you really only need to higher your northbridge voltage if you run into stability issues and other adjustments don't fix it.
3. you cool your motherboard with fans. just get a 80mm fan and engineer it to blow on your northbridge heatsink
4. you have to raise your memory voltages when you become unstable. but most memory you just want to run it at max voltage on your motherboard because it'll be warranted by your RAM company. (this is only the case on certain brands and IC's of ram, TCCD max is 2.8v whereas BH-5 can support nearly 4v)
5. memory temps don't matter. you tell the temp by either touching the integrated heatsinks or hovering your hand over it to see if its hot or cold. blow a fan on it and it'll be fine if you're running something like BH-5. if you're running lower voltage memory it doesn't require active cooling.
6. you have to raise your voltage on anything when you get instability in your system. it gives your CPU/memory that extra umph to get the information through. but be careful because on your CPU you might fry it if you go over certain voltage/temps.
7. pretty much your motherboard will go as high as you can get it. AMD procs usually go to hell around 3 GHz, so...
next question?
also check out http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...ad.php?t=43033 for your motherboard. very good website.
my first rig was almost identical to yours. nice start to overclocking.
Originally Posted by killerfromsky  Well since i'm visiting this forum; I learned that OCing isn't just highering the FSB but also allot of other things, but there are still allot of things I don't get: 1. how do you know the max fsb supported for your ide/ata hardware? 2. when do you know when you have to higher your mb voltages? 3. how can you cool you mb if you complete question nr 2 4. how do you know when you have to raise your memory voltages? 5. how do you know your memory temps? 6. how do you know when you have to raise core voltages or memory voltages? 7. how do you know what the max cpu clock is that your mb supports? The list will be continued 
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2. you really only need to higher your northbridge voltage if you run into stability issues and other adjustments don't fix it.
3. you cool your motherboard with fans. just get a 80mm fan and engineer it to blow on your northbridge heatsink
4. you have to raise your memory voltages when you become unstable. but most memory you just want to run it at max voltage on your motherboard because it'll be warranted by your RAM company. (this is only the case on certain brands and IC's of ram, TCCD max is 2.8v whereas BH-5 can support nearly 4v)
5. memory temps don't matter. you tell the temp by either touching the integrated heatsinks or hovering your hand over it to see if its hot or cold. blow a fan on it and it'll be fine if you're running something like BH-5. if you're running lower voltage memory it doesn't require active cooling.
6. you have to raise your voltage on anything when you get instability in your system. it gives your CPU/memory that extra umph to get the information through. but be careful because on your CPU you might fry it if you go over certain voltage/temps.
7. pretty much your motherboard will go as high as you can get it. AMD procs usually go to hell around 3 GHz, so...
next question?
also check out http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...ad.php?t=43033 for your motherboard. very good website.
my first rig was almost identical to yours. nice start to overclocking.
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