overclocking

phil2oo7 said:
would it be better to overclock straight away or to wait until it was needed
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The question you need to ask yourself is do you need to overclock now? I would give a new system at least a week or so of heavy usage before making any changes. Try running F@H on each core for a week or so and leave it on just to make sure that what you do have works at stock. Then when you are happy with this, gradually change the settings as desired in small steps. i.e. up the FSB in small increments.
 
phil2oo7 said:
would it be better to overclock straight away or to wait until it was needed
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That gives us no information at all. What is your system spec? what do you use your pc for i.e playing games, browsing the net and downloading, graphics work, or do you just like overclocking?
 
That system will overclock nicely, i say go for it if you know what your doing, else have read up on some of the overclocking guides and ask for advice here as well.
 
I would however, strongly suggest just running at stock for a bit. The last thing you want is to have stability problems and not knowing if its a problem specifically with overclocking or the components you have bought.
 
What i did was stress test my system at stock, to make sure nothing was amiss, check for odd temperatures occuring etc

If you overclock with a new system, things like loading up windows are faster (utilities slow things down a little).

I planned on just overclocking modestly (1.6 to 2.2 ghz) but upon how easy it was i just went straight to 3ghz.

Either way id say dont stress about it, oh, and post in the overclocking forum ;)
 
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