| it generally seems that when windows freezes(no mouse movement) you need more juice @ the cpu.give it a little and run prime 95. got errors? try a little more.
if you get memory reference errors, your timings are too tight or incorrect. loosen cas immediately upon leaving the 400 mhz mark, although some more expensive sets or ram will let you go higher with a cas2 rating. this is very inportant, as the CAS rating directly has an affect on your performance; with some ram the difference between CAS2 and CAS 2.5 can mean 500mb/second...not something anyone wants to throw away. Reach CAS 3 and you'll see such a performance drop that you'll shake your head and back off the overclock. I have had the CPU in my sig @ 2800mhz...but it was with a different psu(this helped slighty but not tottally) and different hyperx mem. my current set of mem would allow it to get to 2400mhz(with said psu)...no higher. The higher your front side bus, the more the info goes around all over, the more i have been able to push the proc(multi's lead to huge jumps in speed...@200mhz fsb .5 of a multi is 100mhz remember)
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