Hello all, First off i would like to say that I love this website and frequent it often for inspiration and knowledge, and that i have lots of respect for you hardcore ocers and modders.

APOLOGY FOR LONG POST (in advance)!!!!!! SORRY

The reason for me posting is that i have several questions for those who are willing to help. All week i have been reading and watching these forums (+many others) on how to Overclock in general and specifically the Core 2s. I have built many computers before but i have never personnally OCed one.

I have been using the BXcalc which i found in $Solid$Necros awsome Conroe thread (helped alot) and have set the multiplier to 8x and set the Host Burn Percentage to 42 to reach a CPU speed of 3029 mhz, so my question is that in theory all i have to do to oc my cpu in the bios is change the Host burn percentage to the number i want to reach a stable oc?

And i have a general Ocing question, the one thing i truly do not understand are the RAM timings, my Sticks are listed as 4,4,4,12 (I could be very wrong, please correct me) but in my bios it reads 5,5,5,15 and how does one go about changing them, and how SHOULD i change them based on the cpu clock and modifications?

Also can any one tell me what i can hope to achieve in the way of an overclock off this build/setup? and if there are any major flaws or issues with the hardware i have listed?

And i have also been reading that i can oc this cpu with the stock hs attached, but i never read as to how far people oc it with the stock hs?

I recently built myself a core 2 rig the list is as fallows:
Intel D975XBX AKA "Bad Axe" rev 304
Intel core 2 Duo 6400
2Gigs Corsair XMS2 DDR2 675 pc 5400
EVGA 7900gt KO @ 540/828
2x Sata Western Digital 80gb Hds
Audigy 2 zs
Sunbeam Nuuo 450w PSU silver bezel =)

Cooling = Stock Heatsink, Lian Li pc 60b Pre modded from xoxide (was a gift from parents)
BUT very, very soon ill be building an external wooden enclosure to house the majority of a WC kit for my cpu and GPU and if any one could recommend a decent kit it would be appreciated.

Cpu Idles at 42c, and 49 underload

Thank you to any one who even took the time to read this, let alone post.

oh and sorry if the word "hell" in title brakes any rules meany to change it to "heck" or "F" because i do know that the site prides itself on nonvulgarity and i apologize if i have broken the rules there. YIKES

I'm staff here and I say hell all the time. Now we don't take kindly to F-bombs though.

Quote: Originally Posted by Iateronmly I'm staff here and I say hell all the time. Now we don't take kindly to F-bombs though.

thank you for easing my fears =)

Quote: Originally Posted by Dapizzle Hello all, First off i would like to say that I love this website and frequent it often for inspiration and knowledge, and that i have lots of respect for you hardcore ocers and modders.

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Danger Den has a few kits I would look at, TheTDX waterblock is what you want though!

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Just add it to one of the kits within your pricerange, and if you need more specific help and no one replies here, they have forums there too!

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I'd love to answer all your questions but it's bed time..so here are a few things you can read up on...starting with these articles.

MODTHEBOX.COM - Canada's Premier Case Modding Source - Articles

Overclocking 103: Voltage Adjustments
Date: 09/12/03 - Author: BigDaddy Overclocking 102: Taking Your Overclock to the Next Level
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http://forums.pcapex.com/other_oc_ha...ollection.html

AMD 64 Overclocking..this is not your CPU, but alot the basics are similar, this is an extensive article, it will help give you some details on memory in gerneral..DDR-2 uses different voltages and timings..but you will get a great overview of what the timings mean.

"THE" Definitive DFI AMD Overclocking guide! (merged all the overclocking stickies into one guide!) - DFI Forums

This Bios guide will answer anything the above didn't in a general way for all the bios settings
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Intel OC section
Intel - XtremeSystems Forums
Intel Mobo tweak guides
Core 2 Duo motherboard tweaking and guides. - XtremeSystems Forums

Intel FSB strap info
Asus P5B i965 secrets uncovered. - Forums on the BleedinEdge
More P5B secrets uncovered - XtremeSystems Forums

Oh and my MSN IM ID is patdelaney36@yahoo.com if you want to get a hold of me for more personalised help.

thanks for posting $Solid$ itll take me a bit to read through all that so ill see what i learn from it. Thanks for the hospitality guys.

Listen to $Solid$ he knows his stuff!! hell ya!!