Overclocking practice

Hello there.

Well the whole overclocking thing is in its late infancy(lol) in terms of understanding to me. So I know some, but not much about it from looking around and such. As I am upgrading my computer soon(new processor,mobo,gfx card,maybe ram) I want to get more into tweaking things. I will be getting a new processor in september and would like to overclock it, well at least try to anyway :P. But to make sure I don't screw up I would like to overclock my current processor a bit, just to get used to the idea, you know? So I hear people talking about it on here, and I found a reliable guide,supposedly, on how to do it, and it includes a full color picture instruction book, but it costs $15, so meh lol.

Yeah, I just want to get used to the idea of overclocking, and everything that goes with it. I heard that you press delete or some button to go into a "bios" when you start up, then you fiddle with multipliers or something. I just want to be sure on what I'm doing, so if you guys could give me tips or heck even walk me through it that would be great. Once I know how to do it I can help other overclocking newbies, just like you did to me :D(if you help :P). If for the most strangest reason, my processor "dies", I think I will be alright, because I'm going to get new stuff anyway.

So yeah, I guess this is just a how to overclock your cpu kinda thread, sorry if you don't like helping those =(.

I will continue searching google, but I want your guys's advice, since I feel like we are a brotherhood I can trust you guys. Now ain't that sweet :).

Haha thanks;),

~Truelight

Edit: Oh snappidydapdap I forgot to add my processor, hahaha. It's a socket 939 AMD Sempron 3400+ processor. It's around 2 ghz around there. Not sure what processor I'm going to get. Oh and so I don't add another edit, my psu is 550? watts I think, haha. Cooling system is a fan, but if stuff gets to hot, I can just open up the side pannel, and put my portable fan right smack in front of it haha.

Well first off, you might want to Google OC guides to at least try to understand the basic idea more.

Second, any AMD CPU will NOT want to overclock very far. If you're looking for any real OCing you'll have to go Intel.

Is the RAM you're using able to handle +2.2v. I know some RAM will crap out if you increase the voltage too far above what it's suppose to run. Also, I think 4-4-4-12 latency is a little too tight for 900 Mhz RAM, what was originally stocked at 800 Mhz.

Is the RAM you're using able to handle +2.2v. I know some RAM will crap out if you increase the voltage too far above what it's suppose to run. Also, I think 4-4-4-12 latency is a little too tight for 900 Mhz RAM, what was originally stocked at 800 Mhz.

enraged_caveman