"Every time I turned the page and did the changes. My computer got faster!"

Hi Mr James Scholes

First a little about me.

I'm a 62 year young man who was forced into retirement because of a very bad back and a lay-off. I was very active before the problems came up and needed something to do with my time so I got into Microsoft FSX and got hooked. At first I was running it on a laptop getting about 10 to 15 FPS at low settings. Not Good!! I almost gave up on it.

I started to look for a gaming machine that would do justice to FSX and other games like it. I found that to run today's games I would one Heck of a machine at one Heck of a price. I decided to build one just for gaming and photo work. I found out that the parts that will make or break a gaming machine are the CPU, GPU and MOBO so I went with the best that I could afford. My CPU is an Intel Quad, GPUs are 8800GTX’s (Two in SLI mode) and the MOBO is a BFG 680i SLI. Not bad? Well…Not real good YET!!

I was getting better FPS’s up to 35 / 45 now but not at high settings so I started to look into Overclocking.

Like most people do I turned to the forums for help. Remember…. I'm 62 and this was my first try at building and overclocking. I received reply after reply about how to overclock. The problem was…I had no idea what they were trying to tell me and on top of that one person would say one thing and another person would say something else. The end result was I was no better off after getting the information than I was before I got it..

I just couldn't get a handle on it!! I was getting very frustrated and almost gave up on the project.

One day I was surfing the Web and came across ( www.overclockyourcpu.co.uk ) and figured What Do I have to lose? I've already spent Big Bucks on the machine and hour after hour trying to understand what the people were trying to tell me on the forums so I gave it a try. Within an hour or so I had the E-books loaded, printed and was on my way.

"Everything, I mean EVERYTHING, is explained in detail"

The first thing I noticed was how the books were written. Everything, I mean EVERYTHING, is explained in detail. Not only do they give you written step by step instructions they give you screen shots showing what is being explained (Pictures from a real computer) showing each step along the way. I couldn't believe that, when presented the way it is in the books, it was that easy to overclock a CPU and a GPU.

The books took everything the people on the forums were trying to say, in computer language, and put in an easy to read and understand format. They also supply you with Web Site Links for other thing you can use and should have for you overclocking project.

Do I sound like I Love them? Well I do!!

I started my project with a 3Dmark06 score of a little over 12,000. I'm now Running at 3.62GHz (A little over 53% above stock CPU speed) with a 3DMark06 16,723

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=2816525

As of this time I still have to flash my BIOS and do a little more work on the CPU and GPUs. I think after I update the BIOS I should be able to hit a 3DMark score of 18,000 or better.

The machine is Stable as a Rock and I'm getting between 45 and 70 FPS with good Eye Candy in FSX SP1. (Almost every thing is set at high)I can't wait to see the FPS’s I get with the new BIOS and reworking the settings.

Like I said “Do I love them?”You bet I do!!

And at time of writing, I went from the person that didn't know how to do anything to the person that now has the 3 ^rd fastest machine listed on Nvidia’s forum under Pimp My Rig.

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=35489

I could keep going on and on about the books but I have to get back to them because every time I turn a page and make the changes the computer gets faster.

I do have one problem now. How do you say Thank You to a man that, by way of his books, took me from being a computer know-nothing person to an Overclocking Genius?

All I can say is...

Thank You Mr. James Scholes……You have no idea what your books did for me!!!!

Sincerely,