Those 2700 sticks can take a lot of beating, I wouldn't worry about it till the comp is unstable.

I used to have those in my system, and they overclock very fine. I easily did 220mhz on those. no heatspreader, nor increase in VDimm. Those are the kingston Value Ram modules.

I doubt you can go much further than you are already at. your locked multiplier of 15 is very high, your processor is probably maxed out now as it is. If you were able to lower your multi, then you would probably be able to push your FSB higher (increasing the FSB and lowering the multi is where the real performance gains are, not clock speed)

only one way to find out.... go for it

generally speaking... overclocking is safe (worst case senario, you have to clear CMOS and back down your overclock), its when you start to increase voltage (especially to RAM sticks) where the possible hardware failure lies. if you overlclock but it wont stay stable.. you can try to increase the voltage in small increments to see if that stabilizes it, you just have to relize that if you go too high, you can cook your hardware. every component has a different overclocking potential and voltage tolerance


P.S. i'm guessing based on your name that you are a Halo fan (I am too ), you're gonna have to upgrade that system soon if you want to be able to play Halo2 for PC when they release it

It viods warentys, woopie. It may shorten life. Woopie, I mean it will last 10 years not 12. Tryed usesing a 12 year old cpu today? I say take it as far as is will go(stable,) and back off one tick. It's like getting free power!

http://www.pcpitstop.com/news/maxpc/overclock.asp
Every computer I have up is overclocked 20%~30% 24/7.

KindCody, thanks for your info. I'm a huge HALO fan! Have they said what the specs on HALO 2 for PC are yet? I'm hoping my system will run in with very low graphics! If not, I'll have to upgrade I guess . Thanks all!

No there are no specs released yet. But I can tell you this... you will need to upgrade more than just your video card. but don't do it yet...

Halo2PC will only be available for Windows Vista. Halo2PC will require directX10 compliant video card (DX10 will be exclusive to Vista). DX10 compliant video cards have not been released yet, and they will probably be PCI-Express only.

Basically you will need a new CPU, mobo, vid card, more RAM, new operating system.

I'm not looking forward to spending any more money either, but oh well. Hopefully all I have to upgrade is my vid card and add more RAM. I have a crappy vid card now, but I'm not going to upgrade it until the DX10 cards come out

Thanks Cody, you da King! Actually, Halo is the king! Thanks.

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