Overclocking for the first time, please, some advice.

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Sat Sep 06, 2003 5:11 pm

Hi all... Well, I'm starting overcloking for the first time, and I don't know if I'm going to far with my wife's Athlon XP 2.2, 266. The Voltage should be 1.6, I rised it to 1.7.12, the temperature is about 40 to 42, is ti too agressive or is it ok? Thanks for your comments.

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Sat Sep 06, 2003 7:30 pm

Nestor, do yourself a favour and save your time for better things.
Overclocking current CPUs is complete nonsense. The effect is close to nothing or might even produce the opposite if the additional heat doesn't get absorbed and the internal protection clocks the CPU down again.

my 2 cents, Tom

darkrezin · Post by **darkrezin** » Sat Sep 06, 2003 7:43 pm

Technically you should be fine at temperatures up to 65 degrees, even a little bit higher but the heat generated (I think you're already in a hot country aren't you) may not be worth it. To be safe, try not to go over 55 degrees.

peace

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Sat Sep 06, 2003 11:54 pm

Well, I'm not truly into overcloking guys, but since the Athlon XP 2.200 Í've recently installed into an A7N8X-X Asus MOBO only got running only to 1.350GHz of speed, I thought I should do something cos it is supposed to run a least at 1.800.

I started by changing the bus speed from 100 to 133, this gave me a better results, then I´ve changed the voltage ofthe 512DDR of RAM, from 1.6 to 1.7, then the voltage of the CPU, I mean the Vcore, from 1.6 to 1.7.12. The Asus Prove 2 program shows the CPU now is running at 1.866MHz. The temperature of the CUP, at it's maximum whent up to 44c, using several applications working in loop mode and a heavy, demanding game called Serious Sam that came with the MSI card just to push it to the maximum to see how hot it would get under this setting.

I don't think I'm getting to exigent with this CUP, I just want for it to run at the specified speed I've payed for...

Nevertheless, I can't deny that I actually like overcloking, it is exiting doing it and whatching what happens...

Perhaps yes, CPUs today are so powerful that you don't actually need to overclok them, but with this Athlon I've got 516 MHz more of speed and of course this changed things quite a lot, everything got faster.

The system is nevertheless very stable.

If 44C is ok, I'd like to stay were I am. Thanks for your answers and help

aMo · Post by **aMo** » Sun Sep 07, 2003 7:42 am

lol!

When you installed your XP 2200, you forgot to set it up properly in the bios!
You have not overclocked it to 1833mhz now, but simply set it up to its standard values!

The XP2200 is supposed to be 1833mhz (or something around there).
And FSB is also supposed to be 133 (x2=266mhz).

I have a XP1700, which is 1466mhz at 266mhz FSB, and have been running it with 333mhz FSB (2x166mhz) since day one, which gives me a total of 1833mhz), and no heat problems what so ever (current temp=42c/107F).

General rule though, always run FSB at same speed as your RAM is designed for, i.e. when installing 333mhz DDR (PC2700) try and run your FSB at 166mhz (333mhz), this should give best performance, if you dont wish to clock up your cpu, set RAM to 266mhz instead, and run more agressive memory settings instead...
But be warned: booting up with too agressive RAM settings may require you to reset cmos-battery by removing it for a few sec's and removing a jumper from the mobo at the same time.

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Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Sun Sep 07, 2003 9:48 pm

Wow! Thanks very much, so this is the matter yes... Thanks for you explanation, I'm going to see what is the best for this system.

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 11:27 am

yeah, thanks aMo - a 30% increase in clockrate without heatproblems

Nestor really made me wonder how he did that trick, I even switched to some 'clockers' pages (I usually avoid them) if I had missed something...

Tom

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 1:50 pm

you can accelerate a computer being a fool like me, believing there was something wrong... and considering overcloking the fact of setting up the right BIOS... he he...