If it does, repeat this step. If it doesn t, increase Voltage and try again. If your CPU is failing to respond with further clock speed increases, it may have hit its practical limits. If you think a peripheral is playing up, then look into ways to make its life easier. General notes Always increase FSB first unless there is some good reason otherwise overclock all of your system as far as it will go before you push the CPU ahead further.
Stability is bought with volts, and sold with MHz.
An unstable system is bad, and you ll be hitting the box very hard every time it crashes in less than 2 weeks of frustration. To prevent this, do some testing now, when you think the limits are pretty close. The longer it goes, the more stable your system is. In theory, this should be indefinitely. Your graphics card will probably run 2D fine while over extended periods, 3D will crash it.