changed proccessor speed safe?

[mcnairgunz09]

this might seem stupid but i was playing in my system bios and i have a softmenu function that allows you to change the pc speed i was at athlon xp 2500+ and i changed to 3200+ thoughs where the only 2 options. was that ok too do? is it safe?

my modo is a abit NF7-S V2.0

thank you

 

[003]

Run prime95 and see if it's stable. You might have to adjust the RAM timings and voltages to make it stable.

 

[mcnairgunz09]

i downloaded it but its not making much sence too me

 

[003]

Run the torture test.

 

[Apokalipse]

run your favourite game, and see if it crashes. if it does, then put it back down.
if it doesn't, then congratulations

 

[æArchOAngelæ]

thats the best or just get 3dmark05 and run that or 03 dependsing on specs.

 

[Yoad]

http://files.extremeoverclocking.com/browse.php?c=1

d/l some sort of benchmark program, run it and see if you have slowdowns / crashes / etc that you wouldn't have otherwise

 

[mcnairgunz09]

thnx you guys rock...another question why is my proccessor a 2500+ if it can go to 3200+?

 

[Yoad]

Its a model name for a CPU and they have the same cores... so like [theoretically] a 1.8GHz core STOCK would be called 2500+ and a 2.1GHz core STOCK Speed would be called 3200+, I guess that software you have just overclocks you'r CPU from its stock speed to an equivlant speed of the 3200+ [BTW The speeds I presented are theoretical, I don't really remember the exact core speed of the 2500+ or the 3200+]

Example to compare:

Our nowdays Pentium D series,

We have the 920 and on up to 965... the 920 comes with a core speed [again theoretical speed, too lazy to check] of 2.5Ghz and the 940 comes with a core stock speed of 3.2GHz, overclock a Pentium D 920 from 2.5Ghz to 3.2GHz and you could call it a Pentium D 940, lol...

Whats the diffrence you ask then?[Guessing you'r not an experienced overclocker..] The diffrence is the price lol.. you paid for an AMD 2500+ and overclocked it to be same as 3200+, but for free ..
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BTW I believe that even after using that software of you'rs that modifys you'r cpu clock to be same as a 3200+, if you download CPU-Z and open it, it will still show that you'r CPU model name is 2500+ ...