How do I overclock my CPU?
I have an AMD Athlon XP 2500+ and I heard you can overclock it to match a 3200+. How do I do this? Is it safe or will I fry my chip? Do I need special cooling? I've seen BIOS settings for FSB speed and multiplier but I don't know what they do. Will overclocking void my warranty?
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I always tell people: buy a UPS battery backup. A $40 one will protect your PC from power surges and brownouts that slowly kill your hardware. Lost a motherboard to a thunderstorm once. Never again.
I'd post this on the Tom's Hardware or AnandTech forums with your full system specs — CPU, RAM, motherboard, the works. People can't really help without knowing what you've got. The more detail you give, the better the answers.
Have you run a full virus scan AND a spyware scan? They're different things. Norton or McAfee for viruses, plus Ad-Aware AND Spybot for spyware. Run all of them. A slow computer is infected until proven otherwise in my experience.
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