Noob overclocker

[Primitivus]

I have an Athlon 3500+ 2.2GHz (Newcastle) & MSI Neo2 Platinum. From the BIOS I changed the HTT frequency from 200 to 218MHz. I didn't touch anything else (voltage, memory or multiplier) and now it runs @ 2.4GHz. Is this ok or am I going to run into stability problems some time soon?

 

[Syzler]

You should probably be fine, keep an eye on temps though if you haven't been already. Find a download of SuperPI or Prime95 and stress test things to see if your OC is stable. But with such a small jump, I can't imagine it wouldn't be.

If your cooling is sufficient, you could easily go higher. What ram do you have? If it's good, you can just keep increasing the HTT, you may want to drop the HT multiplier to 4x if you get much higher though. If you have value RAM, change the RAM divider to 166 and keep going.

You'll see the heat creap up with higher clocks, but if you try to up the voltage is when you'll see bigger jumps.

 

[radeonninjaxt]

I have an Athlon 3500+ 2.2GHz (Newcastle) & MSI Neo2 Platinum. From the BIOS I changed the HTT frequency from 200 to 218MHz. I didn't touch anything else (voltage, memory or multiplier) and now it runs @ 2.4GHz. Is this ok or am I going to run into stability problems some time soon?

I think you will be fine. Im also new to overclocking and just recently I clocked my Sandiego 4000+ from stock 2.4 to 2.8 ghz on 1.375 volts. My temps are 32 deg c at idle and 44 deg c under full load on stock air clooling 8)

My HTT is at 1220mhz! I had to set my ddr memory to 333 to keep it from going to high, right now it is at an effective clock of 401mhz which is right where it needs to be! This is on an Asus A8N5X board.