Just after an opinon please as many as possible I have an amd 3700+ CPU running at factory 2.21. My question is is it worth oc'ing it how far and anything else you can think of

List your system specs...board, PSU, RAM, video card, etc...& what your purpose is for overclocking

AMD 3700+ MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum 2 Gig (2x1gig)Corsair RAM XFX 6800 Ultra 256 mb 600 w QPC switching P/S 2 x 120 Gig SATA Seagate HDD Better performance

Better peformance? Your PC doesn't perform well now? I'd be cautious about that PSU. 1st of all, if you haven't upgraded the BIOS lately (or at all), you might wanna consider it. The latest version (1.C) that was recently released contains several improvements, especially the "safety recovery function" for overclocking. - lower the HT multi to 4x - lock the PCI-E at 100MHz - disable all Spread Spectrum settings - increase the CPU freq to 250MHz (you may wanna do this 10MHz at a time). You *may* need to increase the CPU voltage (vcore) to stabilize the overclock. - adjust your RAM settings to keep the RAM reasonably close to 200MHz (assuming you have PC3200). This may mean setting the RAM speed to 166MHz, but this speed will increase as the CPU freq increases. With a 250MHZ CPU freq, the RAM freq would be 208MHz. - if you can pull it off, this will put your CPU at 2.75GHz...25% overclock - use CPUZ to verify your settings http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php

I have a PoS mobo, ram, and PSU and I can still reach 2.71GHz (unstable). With ure board, RAM, and PSU, u should be able to get higher than me. My mobo doesn't even like SSE2... PoS! Sapphire PC-A9RD480Adv Sapphire Radeon X850CF AMD Athlon 3700+ 2.63GHz 1024MB512x2DDR400 RAM 350W Acetech PSU 16A;12v 300w SPI PSU 18A;12v

here is my experience.. got it overclocked to 2.8Ghz stable vcore 1.400 to 1.525.. Ram running at 207 Mhz +0.1V system was going a bit faster but me still having a 9600 i wont notice any fps-improvement ATi Radeon 9600 PRO AMD Athlon 64 3700+ Gigabyte K8NSC-939 1Gb Team Group DDR400 Maxtor 200Gb 450 Watts PSU 4 vents

Your computer doesnt need to be overclocked, but add more ram if you like it helps alot 1gb-2gb has a huge difference; just think about 2gigs to 3gigs or even 4gigs