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Dude, all of this overclocking is just a manipulated race to the top with other extreme users involved. It's an irrelevant necessity and it's only meant to be on liquid cooling. Most heatsinks out there will not tolerate the internal heat combustion from ram, cpu, gpu & motherboard combined. You will fry your hardware relatively fast.
Overclocking is meant to be done for the future when the user feels the computer is slower to the ever evolving software demands. If you have a decent computer, stick to it dude but if your ready for overclocking then you need to be ready to dish out more cash on the pottery.
Gnys.....
in the inception OCing of course water was the preferred choice, as cooling solutions lacked any real capability, but i can assure you *now* the majority of OCing is via air cooling.... & its not done b/c i feel my rig is not capable enough while stock, its done b/c I ENJOY IT!!
, taking components past their stock speeds & managing the same performance as a rig which may cost you double, feels like a real achievement (to me)
its the art of getting greater speed & keeping it ''stable'' for 24/7 use...
Gudziel...
dont be put off by Gnys post...... if you wish to try your hand at it, do so..
there is of course a real risk that comes with OCing, components can & will die.... RAM is the most susceptible to frying, & even if your board has some form of ''C.P.R'' BIOS parameter recall, you will need to locate the CMOS jumper on your mobo & make sure its accesible before you begin (refer to the mobo manual)
just start in slow increments, as stated in the tutorial...
i use a few monitoring apps, i haven't got 1 for everything.....
CPUZ..... will monitor overall CPU clockspeed, voltage, RAM timings, mobo specs..
Speedfan..... i use this for CPU temps, this app can vary from rig to rig, but on mine it detects correctly, this will also allow you to alter fanspeed for any chassis fan with a 4pin mobo connection (i.e. you CPU HSF)
GPUZ... this utility will show you driver version, clocks speeds, card specs & temps (though i dont use this for temps)
EVGA Precision tuner.... this is a great app, i use this for card temps, & OCing..
EVEREST... is also a handy app for most of the above settings, it will also allow you to run a sidebar gadget for CPU/GPU temps, which is handy....
if i were you i'd just install the lot & then your all set...
SK