Nubius
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I believe I'm going to get the AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton core chip up to 3200+. I know the multiplier will be locked and I will have better than stock cooling and using Arctic Silver 5 as my compound and case fans and whatnot, Basically I'm not too concerned about heat. I can monitor that.
What I'm really looking for are people who've either OC'd this chip in the past or currently have it running. I've heard to leave the PCI Frequencies alone, and put the AGP to 66Mhz and btw I'll have pc3200 ram so I'm looking for the 400FSB obviously. I've basically heard all you need to do is incrementally step up the FSB from 166 to 200 and as long as you got adequate cooling it'll all be good and stable. I've heard very few reports on the voltage needed. Some say you shouldn't need to change it all, some say a small boost of up to 1.7 vcore will make it stable, and I think I've even seen some people say 1.8 but that sounds a bit much. Anyone got some sound advice before I go on this overclocking adventure? Mainly about voltages and keeping system stability =) Thanks
What I'm really looking for are people who've either OC'd this chip in the past or currently have it running. I've heard to leave the PCI Frequencies alone, and put the AGP to 66Mhz and btw I'll have pc3200 ram so I'm looking for the 400FSB obviously. I've basically heard all you need to do is incrementally step up the FSB from 166 to 200 and as long as you got adequate cooling it'll all be good and stable. I've heard very few reports on the voltage needed. Some say you shouldn't need to change it all, some say a small boost of up to 1.7 vcore will make it stable, and I think I've even seen some people say 1.8 but that sounds a bit much. Anyone got some sound advice before I go on this overclocking adventure? Mainly about voltages and keeping system stability =) Thanks