Originally Posted by Lasereth

I hate to crash the party but if you want some serious advice from someone who has been through the ups and downs with OCing, take it: don't OC. Just buy better components. You'll get nothing but BSODs and CTDs and soft resets from OCing, all with a marginal increase in power. A very small amount of OCs are stable, and even those that are stable usually don't increase actual game performance that much. If you want your PC performance to go up, there are better/less annoying/safer ways to do it. Keep in mind that having MORE ram will always make your PC faster in games than faster RAM, even when using ram that's underclocked for your CPU FSB. A fast hard drive (like a WD Raptor, etc.) will make games load faster. Make sure your videocard doesn't suck (by reading my guide at the top!!).