Helo Guyz! I just read my mobos manual and found out it supports safe overclocking(Hybrid Booster for AsRock terminologies). SO, i made up my mind that i have to overclock my CPU, but i noticed in the Bios, the CPU ratio selection is LOCKED. but i tried the CPU Host Frequency from auto to manual. its actual frequency is 133Mhz. What is the 133MhZ? the 533Mhz FSB? becuase when i tried increasing the host frequency from 133 to 170Mhz and saved it, i found out that my CPU is o/c to 3.09Ghz. but wen i perform intel processor frequency utility, the system bus w/c is originally 533Mhz increases to 599Mhz. Am i doing ryt in O/C? What about the ratio selection? my mobo supports up to 533Mhz FSB. my ram is 2x256 DDR333..2.5-3-3-7. do i have the correct setup? Plz hELp!! I rily Want to play Battle for Middle Earth in the high setting. my V-card is Agp Inno3D Tornado Geforce FX 5500 256mb/128bit(270mhz core speed and 400mhz memory frequency) Thanks in Advance!!!! AsRock P4I45Gv Intel Chipsets Celeron D 2.40 Ghz DDR333 512mb ram 40GB HDD Western Digital Geforce FX 5500 256mb/128bit

Multiplier (ratio) is locked on ALL Intel CPUs & cannot be changed. Yours is locked at 18.0x Intel "quad-pumps" the FSB: 100MHz x 4 = 400FSB 133MHz x 4 = 533FSB 200Mhz x 4 = 800FSB If you increase from 133MHz to 170MHz, the FSB should be 680 (170 x 4), not 599. 18.0 x 170 = 3.06GHz. CPU:DRAM should be 1:1. Your RAM timing (2.5-3-3-7) appears to be correct. Your video card is not a great one...but the game's system requirements aren't all that bad, so high settings "may" be possible: Operating System: Windows XP or 2000 CPU: 1.3 GHz or faster RAM: 256 MB or more CD: 8x or faster DVD drive Hard Disk Space: 4 GB or more free space VIDEO: DirectX 9.0b compatible Video card with 32 MB or more memory and one of these chipsets is required: NVIDIA GeForce 2 GTS or greater, ATI Radeon 7500 or greater CPU: DirectX 9.0b compatible sound card ASUS A7N8X-X Athlon XP 1800+ 8.5 x 200MHz 1024MB PC3200 2.5-3-3-7 Asus A9550GE/TD 128MB WinME/WinXP Pro SP1

how can i stabilize my pc if i overclocked my celeron D 2.4 to 3.0? do i need extra specialized cooling HSF? will my cpu be unstable? u knw, am on a gaming and cnt afford to buy a pentium or an AMD 64 coz am still a student. tnx AsRock P4I45Gv Intel Chipsets Celeron D 2.40 Ghz DDR333 512mb ram 40GB HDD Western Digital Geforce FX 128MB/64bit

Don't go in huge jumps. Raise the FSB 5-10MHz at a time, save the setting, reboot & test the system for stability...& keep an eye on the temps. Is your RAM running dual channel mode? What's your CPU:DRAM ratio set at? ASUS A7N8X-X Athlon XP 1800+ 8.5 x 200MHz 1024MB PC3200 2.5-3-3-7 Asus A9550GE/TD 128MB WinME/WinXP Pro SP1

I dont knw whats dual channel mode, bt i bet its not running in dual channel mode. ryt now.. i havent overclocked my cpu yet, still on 2.4ghz @fsb 533 and DDR333 2x256. bt a while ago, i tryd it overclocked up to 3.0 as ive sed..and load at windows..it runs ok..bt am afraid to try 8 in games..so i set it back to default. u knw i dnt hve an expensive RAM, my RAM's name is HTL. AsRock P4I45Gv Intel Chipsets Celeron D 2.40 Ghz DDR333 512mb ram 40GB HDD Western Digital Geforce FX 128MB/64bit