WELCOME TO REDLINE OVERCLOCKERS NEWBIES CORNER, IF YOU DONT KNOW MUCH ABOUT OVERCLOCKING START HERE!

TO START OVERCLOCKING YOU NEED TO HAVE A KNOLEDGE OF JUMPERS AND SWITCHES AND WHAT THEY DO. IF YOU DONT KNOW WHAT A JUMPER LOOKS LIKE THEN LOOK AT THE PIC IN THE REVIEW SECTION OF THE MVP3 MOTHERBOARD. TO THE BOTTOM RIGHT HAND CORNER ARE GREEN THINGS-THEY ARE THE JUMPERS ( MOST ARE BLACK ) AND TO THE OTHER SIDE ON THE BOTTOM ARE SWITCHES, THEY ARE COLOURED BLUE. NOW THESE ARE SET TO A PARAMETER ALREADY, ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS CHANGE THEM TO WHAT YOU REQUIRE OUT OF YOUR PROCESSOR. THE JUMPERS THAT YOU WANT TO CHANGE ARE THE MULTIPLIER AND THE BUS SETTING, BUT BE WARNED GOING TO HIGH WITHOUT PROPER COOLING WILL END UP WITH YOUR MACHINE SPONTANEOUSLY COMBUSTING AND YOU WILL HAVE LOST A GOOD COMPUTER.

WELL THAT'S SLIGHTLY EXAGERATED, IT WOULD PROBEBLY NOT POST AND IF IT DID WOULD JUST MELT YOUR PROCESSOR TILL IT WOULD NOT WORK AT ALL. SO DECENT COOLING IS A MUST IF YOU PLAN TO OC YOUR PROCESSOR OR VIDEO CARD ETC. RIGHT, NOW WHEN YOU START OUT YOU JUST WANT TO GO A LITTLE AT A TIME AND SEE IF IT WORKS, THE BEST GAINS ARE TO BE HAD WHEN YOU OC THE BUS SPEED, FOR EXAMPLE TAKING A MACHINE THAT HAD A 66MHZ BUS SAY A K6 266 THIS WOULD RUN GREAT ON A 100MHZ BUS OR THE HIGHEST SETTING YOU HAD ON YOUR BOARD. IF YOU WANTED TO OC YOUR PROCESSOR YOU WOULD CHANGE YOUR MULTIPLIER SETTINGS, AGAIN A LITTLE AT A TIME, AT THIS POINT YOUR PROBEBLY POSTING BUT CRASHING IN WINDOWS OR JUST BEFORE WINDOWS, THIS MEANS THAT YOUR PROCESSOR NEEDS MORE POWER AND THE VOLTAGE HAS TO BE UPPED TO KEEP IT RUNNING STABLE. THIS WILL CREATE HEAT AND EVENTUALLY DEATH TO YOUR PROCESSOR, OF COURSE THIS WILL TAKE TIME ( ABOUT FIVE YEARS ) AND BY THEN YOU WOULD HAVE BOUGHT A NEW PROCESSOR SO WHY NOT GET THE MOST OUT OF IT.

REMEMBER IF YOU DONT KNOW WHAT YOUR DOING THEN DONT DO IT AT ALL UNTIL YOU ARE CONFIDENT ENOUGH TO DO IT. ALSO GETTING ELECTRICUTED IS NOT A FUN THING SO REMEMBER TO TURN IT OFF AT THE WALL BEFORE MUCKING AROUND IN THEIR. TAKE YOUR TIME AND STUDY THE ART OF OVERCLOCKING, IT WONT TAKE LONG BEFORE YOUR RUNNING PELTIERS OR WATER COOLED CPU'S AND CLOCKING YOUR CELERY 300 AT 600. AND ALWAYS REFER TO YOUR MOTHERBOARD MANUAL FOR JUMPER SETTINGS AND THE LIKE, ALSO REMEMBER TO GROUND YOURSELF PROPERLY YOU CAN DO THIS BY PLUGGING IN YOUR COMPUTER, WITH THE SWITCH IN OFF POSITION AND PLACING YOUR HAND ON THE CHASIS OF YOUR CASE FOR A FEW SECONDS, THIS WILL REMOVE THE STATIC ELECTRICITY FROM YOUR BODY WHICH IS HARMFUL TO YOUR COMPUTER. IF YOU ARE NOT CONFIDENT ENOUGH TO OC YOUR MACHINE THEN TRY IT ON AN OLD MACHINE LIKE A 486 WHICH CAN BE PICKED UP RELETIVELY CHEAP AND IF YOU MUCK UP THEN IT DOES'NT MATTER.