Complete OC newbie. Please explain some things. :)

DaBlade

DaBlade

DaBlade

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Hello.
I've never overclocked before, nor did I ever think I would, but here I find myself lacking in CPU speed for some operations (Compiling software mainly). It just takes too long.
I quickly glanced through a few OC guides, including the one stickied on this forum, and appearently, I need to increase some multiplier thingy. (Yep, I probably sound like a big dumbarse right now.).

Anyways, I only wanna boost the CPU a couple hundred MHz. Perhaps even boost the RAM a bit if possible.

Here are my system specs:
AMD Athlon XP Barton 2600+ (1917MHz)
Asus A7N8X-X mobo (nForce2)
768MB RAM (One 512MB kingston chip, and one 256MB chip I don't know the make of. Probably twinmos or something)
Fortron/Source 400W PSU
Using the CPU fan that came with the CPU (Boxed)

(Probably not relevant, but hey...) :
PNY nVIDIA GeForce 6600GT 128MB
MSI 4x DVD burner
LITE-ON DVD player
19" TFT Monitor
Using MEPIS GNU/Linux as my operating system.

Can anyone explain to me, in laymans terms, what I need to do? I don't wanna boost the CPU a lot, maybe up to 2.2GHz or something.
(Don't flame me or anything. Everyone's a newb at one point. ;))
 
I kinda feel insecure about just experimenting... Is there some safer way of doing it?
And is there some "safe limit" to percentage of speed/voltage increase?
 
Okay, so I just increase the multiplier until the heat hits 55 degrees?

(And I don't have lm-sensors installed so I can't monitor CPU heat or anything like that inside the running OS.)

(And just to get everything clear and consise so I don't screw up, please write down every step one step at a time.)
 
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