Thinking of stepping in to overclocking

*I hope this is the right place to ask*

After tinkering with undervolting and being stable there, I figured I'd go a bit deeper and try my hand at overclocking (resetting voltages to defaults of course beforehand). I did some searching around on here hoping there would be a general guide, but it seems most of the threads I found were specific for each person's processor and mobo and depended on memory settings for some reason. I run an AMD Athlon 64 3200+, the closest thread I found was from 2 years ago but had a different code name. Granted, this is my first step in to this and even though I'm using my old computer as a test dummy, I don't want to go overboard and risk turning this laptop into a brick.

Spec's:
Athlon 64 3200+ Venice socket 939
2.0GHz stock
HP 3085 mobo, ATI Xpress 200 chipset
Factory BIOS
1.25GB PC2700 ram single channel (according to CPU-Z) @ 166MHz

I've got PC Wizard 08, RMClock, Orthos, Clockgen, and HWMonitor to use for testing and such. Anyone able to help me out on this or at least point me to where I need to look for info on being able to overclock?

 

i'm not sure if its sensible to overclock and undervolt at the same time. use the orthos program mentioned in the undervolting guide to do a stress test at each overclocking step.

 

I already planned on that. I'd only use undervolting for cooler running and less power draw for basic things. I'd overclock for games, but wouldn't be concerned about being as cool as long as I stay within tolerances. I did read a few posts in that guide that mentioned OC'ing first, then doing a mild undervolting and finding a sweet spot that is a balance of performance and temps/power use that worked for them. I may go for that later, but for this my concern is only overclocking by itself.

 

You should mix them if you can make stable, they go well together. The undervolting lowers temps that overclocking is likely to increase. I have Turion TL-52. I have Xpress 200 (RS480). I use ClockGen, I use PLL ICS951446. I use Prime95 for stress test. All free. I use CPU-Z to identify my chipset. Good luck.