I have a slotek SL-75DRV m/b AMD Athlon 1.4GHz/c 266mhz/fsb 512Mg DDR 64Mg Geforce2 Mx40 10g Western Digital ATA-100 h/d And unfortunately Im using onboard sound atm. Average CPU Temp 49-55 Deg Gets to 55deg when playing counterstike. I used the redstorm overclocker on my m/b, and it has taken it to 1.52Ghz which is resonably stable. IS this just increasing my FSB not my multiplier ??? I do have the odd crash now & then, would that be becuse im using the onboard CRAP sound ?? Also I have two diff brands of RAM will that make a difference ?? 1 stick has 7ns 1st & 2nd cycle the other has 7ns 1st cycle 10ns 2nd cycle ? Any Advice would be appreciated as I`d like to go wild with it, Take it to it`s MAX Also if any 1 can tell me how to use the cpu,chip,pci,agp skew adjust`s in the bios You`d be a legend among persons! (Must b politicaly correct now!) Regards: Mick >8)+<

Thats a geforce2 mx400 not 40 Doh!

WITH A 1400 MGHZ ATHLON, DOESNT MAKE MUCH SENSE TO OVERCLOCK!

Cause if it works "TWEAK IT"

By the way john This forum is for ppl who are intrested in overclocking there systems, And as such dont need to read useless replies such as yours. Unless u have somthing constructive to say, DROP DEAD!

Your "odd crash now and again" may be due to the enormous ammounts of heat generated by your cpu. By the sound of things you really need to provide some extra cpu/Case cooling. Even O/C'd the cpu temp shouldn't be any more than 45c to keep it stable. Not sure about your memory tho', it would help to have identical memory fitted. Redstorm would be overclocking your FSB as the cpu is clock locked which means that if you're running your memory at a higher bus speed than it is rated for, then that would explain your crashes also. You need to do one or more of the following. 1) Improve CPU and Case cooling. 2) Buy some DDR memory that is suitable for overclocking i.e Crucial or Mushkin 3) Look into unlocking the multipier on the cpu, that way you are not increasing your FSB speed and killing your memory. Hope this helps.

Yer thanks drew, Will look into unlocking the cpu Also I forgot to mention im in queensland australia & the weather here has been at 40deg so the cpu is running a bit hotter than norm, NO Air/Con :(