Noob overclocking practice.

[gropingmantis]

Hi all.
I'm looking to eventually overclock my lovely AMD Phenom II X4 but I dont want to risk ruining anything with my noobishness. So as a practice/test subject I'm going to get my eye in on my sisters PC.

Its got an AMD Phenom X3 8600 on a Foxconn A7VMX-K board. Does anyone have any experience of these? What can I expect to get out of it? Its got an H50 on it so cooling shouldnt be an issue?

Thanks

 

[gropingmantis]

Its a fair point but I dont care if I toast my sisters computer because I'm mean like that .

Also there is quite a bit more information avaliable on overclocking the X4.