Questions on overclocking my CPU and Vid


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Ive heard my mobo/cpu and vid card are very over clockable? Im technically solid but never overclocked before, and cant afford to blow a PC. Looking for advice, lots of info and questions to follow.

Basically I need to increase performance at the absolute lowest cost. I really only have about 150$ to play with.

My ps is only 300 watts. So I would probably have to replace it if over clocking will draw more (and from what ive read it will?).

So I was thinking either a new case with PS and fans. Then overclocking CPU and potentially the Vid card.

Other options include a dedicated sound card, or a new HD and running RAID (0 is supposedly faster... Would that be of benefit?).

Couple last questions if I understand correctly I can DL

"Clockgen: A real time adjuster of HTT, resulting in a new CPU speed, HTT and memory speed, but sadly, if you don't have a PCI/AGP lock, this program wont help you further." http://wiki.extremeoverclocking.com/wiki/A64_Guide

And as long as the changes I make are stable, then it will handle overclocking for me? And if I have this PCI lock, then I can do the vid card? Can I overclock the CPU and leave the RAM and Vid card alone?

Some of my systems Specs (ask if you need something else):

Field Value

Computer

Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Professional

DirectX 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c)

Motherboard

CPU Type AMD Athlon 64, 2000 MHz (10 x 200) 3200+

Motherboard Name Unknown

Motherboard Chipset ATI Radeon Xpress 200, AMD Hammer

System Memory 2048 MB (PC3200 DDR SDRAM)

BIOS Type Award (10/14/05)

Display

Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce 6600 (256 MB)

3D Accelerator nVIDIA GeForce 6600 PCI-E

Monitor ViewSonic A90-2 [19" CRT] (320003706212)

Multimedia

Audio Adapter ATI SB400 - AC'97 Audio Controller

Storage

Disk Drive SAMSUNG HD160JJ/P (160 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA-II)

Optical Drive TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-H552L (DVD+R9:2.4x, DVD+RW:16x/4x, DVD-RW:12x/4x, DVD-ROM:16x, CD:40x/32x/48x DVD+RW/DVD-RW)

SMART Hard Disks Status OK

This seemed like information that would help yall give me sound advice:

Field Value

CPU Properties

CPU Type AMD Athlon 64 3200+

CPU Alias Venice S939

CPU Stepping DH-E6

CPUID CPU Name AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3200+

CPUID Revision 00020FF2h

CPU Speed

CPU Clock 1989.39 MHz

CPU Multiplier 10.0x

CPU FSB 198.94 MHz (original: 200 MHz)

Memory Bus 198.94 MHz

CPU Cache

L1 Code Cache 64 KB (Parity)

L1 Data Cache 64 KB (ECC)

L2 Cache 512 KB (On-Die, ECC, Full-Speed)

Motherboard Properties

Motherboard ID 10/14/2005-RS482-SB400-Amberine-00

Motherboard Name Unknown

Chipset Properties

Motherboard Chipset ATI Radeon Xpress 200, AMD Hammer

Memory Timings 3-4-4-8 (CL-RCD-RP-RAS)

Command Rate (CR) 2T

SPD Memory Modules

DIMM1: Samsung M3 68L6523CUS-CCC 512 MB PC3200 DDR SDRAM (3.0-3-3-8 @ 200 MHz) (2.5-3-3-7 @ 166 MHz)

DIMM2: Samsung M3 68L6523CUS-CCC 512 MB PC3200 DDR SDRAM (3.0-3-3-8 @ 200 MHz) (2.5-3-3-7 @ 166 MHz)

DIMM3: Infineon AED660UD00-500B98X 512 MB PC3200 DDR SDRAM (3.0-3-3-8 @ 200 MHz) (2.5-3-3-7 @ 166 MHz) (2.0-2-2-6 @ 133 MHz)

DIMM4 512 MB PC3200 DDR SDRAM (3.0-4-4-8 @ 200 MHz) (2.5-3-3-7 @ 166 MHz) (2.0-3-3-6 @ 133 MHz)

BIOS Properties

System BIOS Date 10/14/05

Video BIOS Date 07/29/05

Award BIOS Type Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG

Award BIOS Message Copyright 2005 by Hewlett-Packard Company Rev. 3.10

DMI BIOS Version 3.10

Graphics Processor Properties

Video Adapter nVIDIA GeForce 6600 PCI-E

GPU Code Name NV43 (PCI Express x16 10DE / 0141, Rev A2)

GPU Clock 301 MHz

Memory Clock 250 MHz

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