Overclocking Athlon 64 2800+

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Other than running an original Celeron 300A CPU @ 600MHz, there are very few situations where it's worth messing with overclocking.

If you do, don't go blaming Microsoft for all those bluescreens and added instability, there's a reason components are rated at the speeds they are. there's some safety margins, but if you start trying to squeeze every last bit out of them, you'll be running into timing problems, overheating issues, and significant shorter lifespan for your components. All for a ~10% speed increase which is near imperceptible anyway.