A guide for overclocking

[Phenomenal Flea]

Wow! Thank you very much for this enlightening information! I've been desperate for a safe way to overclock my CPU!

The last time I tried, I was VERY unsure as to what to do. I changed something in the BIOS (I don't know what it was, I can check if you'd like) and when I reset it told me the values I set it to were invalid and wouldn't start up. Then I turned it off, thinking I could simply go back to BIOS and set it back... but it wouldn't start!

I flipped.

But luckily after having some tea, I pressed the 'clr cmos' button on my motherboard and everything was OK. Phew! I was pretty much shitting, nay, sweating bricks!

So, now I'm really interested by this 'EasyTune5Pro' program. However, I'm scared that if I take it too far I won't be able to fix it the same way since I haven't done it in BIOS this time. So, what happens if it won't load? Will I be able to use 'clr cmos' again?

I also read, while reading up on overclocking my particular CPU (AMD Phenom II x4 940), that you had to increase the voltage if I wanted to go over 3.5GHz. Is this true and can the program do that? What would you say would be a sensible increase for my CPU? I've seen people upgrade to 3.7GHz and I'd really like it if I could do that too, but really, I don't want to go over what I need for smooth frames on Dolphin. Did you say that was about 3.6GHz? I'm using a Cooler Master V8 to cool my CPU.

I used SpeedFan, but I'm unsure as to which temperature is my CPU's. The GPU is 37C, Temp1 is 27C, Temp2 is 39C, Temp 3 is 23C, HD0 is 28C and Core is 31C. I hope that helps or am I looking at the wrong part. Also, there is a blue arrow beside each setting, and sometimes a green tick next to Temp2. Is this good or bad?

Thank you very much in advance. I know I wrote more than I probably needed to!