Alright my new (budget) system is online with an Asus M3N72-D and a Phenom II 920. Will it be safe overclocking it by %10 using the asus %10 overclock preset with stock cooling? Also, how much, if at all should I overclock my 9800gtx with the EVGA utility?
Uh, I personally don't use windows over clocking utilities, just go in your bios and raise the "fsb" I also put "fsb" because there is no fsb. And yeah go ahead, we don't know if it's safe because how can we tell you that? Overclocking is not a science, it's depends more on luck. How much you should overclock your 9800gtx? Well that is up to you, we can't tell you that either. For an example, intel takes in processors and when they are being created they are binned. Silicon quality is what determines the batches. Processing cpu's is not a perfect science, about 10% are defective. It does not cost intel any more or less to create an x6800 than an e6600, if they have the same cache and all their internals are identical, it is just that the x6800 is most likely made of "better" silicon. Also this is also not a stable, if newegg orders say 2000 e6400's, but newegg only has 500 e6400's, but 1500 e6600's, those 1500e e6600s magically become e6400's. Anyway this relates to your graphics card because, the silicon quality of each graphics card is different, and there is no standard way to tell your clocks. Checking the binning to others will give you an idea however. Standard procedure is just raise the mhz, on the core clock and memory clock 10mhz at a time and check if it's stable.
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