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Well, I wouldnt recommend cleaning the inside of your comp with a vacum, as the static electricity it creates can screw up your parts. For the outside, use a damp clothe, its safer and works better.
Load temps of 32C are very good. As long as your temps stay <50C you're fine. I take it you have an Athlon 2500+? Those Barton core processors are very good over clockers, especially with PC3200 RAM. You should be able to pump the FSB up to 200MHz (from its stock 166) and leave the multiplier alone. If you want to push it a little further, change the multiplier to 11.5 (from stock 11). When you overclock make sure you up the CPU voltage 0.1v to start with, the CPU will need the extra juice when its o/c'd. You might want to up the DIMM voltage too (maybe to 2.7). What kind of Power supply do you have an what's its rating? You'll want to make sure oyu ahve a good one before trying to overclock. Also, are you using the stock Athlon heatsink/fan? Those arent great for overclocking applications, you might want to invest in a thermaltake7+ and some arctic 5 thermal grease. Anyways, glad your going to take a crack at it. : peace2: Mista K6
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Modified Dell 8200 Case:
-400MHz FSB i850 Intel mobo
-P4 Williamette Socket 478, 1.9GHz
-768MB 16-bit PC800 RDRAM
-MSI GF4 Ti4200 128MB @ 284/581
-7200 RPM Maxtors: 60GB (2MB) on mobo and 160GB (8MB) on ATA/133 PCI Card
-Creative Inspire T7700 7.1 Speaker System on an Audigy 2
-Windows XP Home Edition SP2
Rock on : peace2: , MiStA K6
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