Overclocking CPU's (split from Pentium -vs- AMD Athlon)

[sangram]

Originally posted by sagarverma
jus want to tweak up my system in the cheapest possible manner and not to do any experiments on it to test the endurance of the CPU and related peripherals.

Don't worry. With an Intel motherboard, there's not much experimentation you can do. It's pretty much impossible to tweak one of those boards without borking the system.

Two ways of increasing the power are as you said,

1. More RAM

2. Install a graphics card (I'm pretty sure you're using onboard graphics) if the board allows you to (some don't). This will take a huge load off the memory bus, as the onboard graphics steals not only RAM amount, but also bus bandwidth. Even a cheap card will have noticeable effects.

You could also consider upgrading the CPU itself but I don't think it's worth it.

[sagarverma]

none.
i plan to buy nvida card(post budget)

as i told the pc config earlier,i plan a parallel 256 ddr(so the old one is not wasted) and a graphics card.i suppose these will vastly improve the performance.
i wanted overclocking also,,but as it is turning out
its not for me,so much headache,i would be better off to market and buy a new processor itself.