hi, i am trying to overclock an amd 1700+ i have seen on many forums that people have oc'd to about 2+ ghz (crazy huh?) i was just wondering.. how i can do this.. i am a newbie at this topic.. i need an step-by-step guide for changeing the bios stuff.. i don't want to make any changes to the hardware... so.. is it possible? and btw i have 6 fans (very noisy, but don't care) so i don't think heat will be a problem..

go in the bios and up the fsb by 3-4 mhz and test 5 stabilty. when it gets unstable up the vcore a little. but run sisoft sandra 03 or 04 burn in test at the cpu arithemetic benchmark. take 50 tests and up the fsb if it doesent lock up. also you have to tell us what mobo, ram and that stuff... hope i helped.. Ne0

lol.. i don't understand half the stuff you said.... i have a asus a7v333 mobo... 384 DDR RAM PC2200 (i think)..

Do you understand how overclocking works? If not, I suggest to take the time to learn about it & the possible consequences. You'll need to know how to reset the BIOS is you unsuccessfully overclock & your system refuses to reboot again. You'll also need to know how raising the FSB can affect the other system components...memory, AGP, PCI, HDD, etc. here's a quick explanation. CPU speed = multiplier x FSB. Your 1700+ runs at 1.47 Ghz...11.0x multiplier x 133mhz FSB. Raising the multiplier overclocks the CPU only...it does nothing to your system. Raising the FSB however, overclocks everything in the system...CPU, memory, AGP, PCI, HDD, etc. But CPU speed isn't necessarily the most important thing when it comes to performance. Take your CPU for example...if you could get your FSB to 155mhz & lower your multiplier to 9.5x, you'd still be running the CPU at 1.47 Ghz, but your entire system would run faster. But will your other components handle the speed increase? I can't answer that. Can you lock the PCI/AGP at their defaults of 33/66mhz, or will they increase right along with the FSB? If you can't lock them, it's possible that they will hold you back.

"lol.. i don't understand half the stuff you said" you probably should not mess with anything until you understand more.