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Thanks for the reply - 40-50% hehe obviously I'm not gonna do that with this processor, actually I was aiming exactly @ 3GHz.. So after some reading and trials this Saturday currently I'm running the Orthos Test on the rig and here is the link to CPU-Z >> http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=481501 I tried to top up the bus speed @ 222 but the system failed to boot; I tried @ 220 and the Windows loaded. The Orthos failed after 2 min of blended test... Now the test is running at the published settings 20 minutes and the rig looks stable. The question is have I reached the STABLE top??.. Stable because I need the rig for gaming at the end of the day Thanks for your posts

Greetings to all! After having my rig for almost a year I decided to try little OCing. I red many forums and got some information to start but after my initial try to change settings in bios I reach nowhere. I'm looking forward to increase the CPU performance to 40-50% on the custom Air Cooling. I would appreciate ANY help. Here are my rig specs: AMD Athlon 64 x2 5200+ Windsor MB Gigabyte M59SLI-S5 RAM 4x1GB Kingston DDR2 Gigabyte Custom Heat sink Power supply Force 900W GPU Gigabyte GTX280 1GB DDR3 Vista Ultimate 32 SP1