I want to buy a processor, and I have been looking at the 2700 and most people are saying to go with the 2500. I bought a SLK800U today and I have a A7N8X deluxe already (rev 1.04) My question is how likely is it that I will hit 2.2ghz?? from newegg? and how safe of temps would that be? I know the SLK800 is a good cooler and I plan on getting a good fan on top like smart fan or somthing but i dont want to burn it up and not be able to return it. when i dont have 93 bucks to lose... has anyone here burned up there 2500 if so what did you do wrong? this is my first experince with over clocking I really want to do it but if my chances are against me I dont want to try it yet and will get the 2700+
2500 barton worth OCing to void warrenty?
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a CPU gets burned up usually when the voltage is too high and the cooling is poor which causes temps that are too high. you should be able to hit 2.2 on the 2500+ without a problem
I agree warranty wont be an issue if you keep voltages below say 1.75v and have adequate cooling...Then throw in the factor I bet you upgrade yearly and most ppl around these parts dont know what taking to term means when it comes to warranties....
Man I could not wait and I just bought it. The 2500+ that is. Bought the $5 OEM warrenty just incase I dont over clock. but If I do its only 5 bucks hopefully nothings wrong with it. neweggs disclamier kinda scared me. with returning it and all.
Relax, it's just what they have to do to cover their hiney! 
If you install everything correctly and don't crank up the voltages too much, you'll know if your chip works or not within a very short amount of time. Usually it's fine, but rarely you could get a bad chip...
If you install everything correctly and don't crank up the voltages too much, you'll know if your chip works or not within a very short amount of time.
Usually it's fine, but rarely you could get a bad chip...Really, if your games and stuff run fine, why the hell would you? That CPU is plenty powerful at the moment...I mean, if you really want that extra performance (what, an extra 10 fps in Quake III to bring you to 122323?) go ahead, but that CPU is plenty powerful enough. It IS any easy CPU to overclock, but why not wait until it actually makes sense? That's what I'm doing with my 2400+...When I need to, I'll bump it up a lil, but right now it's just fine. I know most will disagree with me, but I feel that as long as your performance is good right now, you shouldn't change a thing. Overclocking is becoming less of a necessity with computers being as powerful as they are now, and becoming more of a game of sorts.
well right now the game that i play the most is battlefield and i have a ti4200 it runs ok on my 1800+ but there are times when flying i miss frames alot. Also I wanted to try overclocking, just becuase I have never done it. My 1800 is a palamino and I dont want to conect the pins to overclock that. My ram is corsair 3200 and I want to use it to its full potential right now on sandra I am getting results slower than 2100 ram sucks becuase of how much corsiar ram cost. anywho the processor will probaly be here on monday and when ever svc ships my slk800 I will let you guys know the results.
Maybe your 1800+ runs BF slow, but in laymens terms you are getting 700 more mhz, so it should fine.
Hey GooGoo I personally welcome you to ocing...it is wonderful....I can attest in the gains I get from running my p4 at 2.4ghz w/ 354mhz ddr to 3.24ghz w/ 450mhz ddr in divx movies....we are talking almost a 1/2 hour in 2pass encoding....in cadd rendering I see a hefty gain in less time alomost to the point of the percentgae increase of the processor in my 80mb test file...
What is wrong with trying to squeeze every onunce out of the money you spend!!!
What is wrong with trying to squeeze every onunce out of the money you spend!!!
I have my 2500+ now. I tested it in 3dmark2001 at stock (1.8ghz) gained about 2000 points. scrore was like 11680 (I think) I wanted to try to overclock it and so I went all out and tried 200fsb and left the mutiplier at 11 everthing else is defualt. And it is synced with the ram. It seems a little faster than the defualt setting though I did not finish 3dmark with overclocked settings becuase I didny want to wait for it. I run it later. Anyhow I ran prime had an error early like 6 mins.
So I guess I will have to wait until I get my smart fan 2 in the mail probably today to make it more stable. BTW I recieved a week 17 from newegg.
So I guess I will have to wait until I get my smart fan 2 in the mail probably today to make it more stable. BTW I recieved a week 17 from newegg.
Right now I have a case fan that came with my G-mono case. Its a cheapy but I have already bought the smart fan but it was not hear when I got the processor. so uping the voltage whould fix prime you think? Anothing thing...
When you overclock does your clock (as in time) overclock too??? becuase it freaking ticks at like .5 secs I set it like 5 mins ago and have already gained 8mins more than time is now...
When you overclock does your clock (as in time) overclock too??? becuase it freaking ticks at like .5 secs I set it like 5 mins ago and have already gained 8mins more than time is now...
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i've never heard of anything like that, the time getting faster? weird..
i don't think that's an oc problem hehe.
check the bios clock settings, also, you could try to sync the time to microsoft's website. its in the options if you double click the clock in windows. this might help.
i don't think that's an oc problem hehe.
check the bios clock settings, also, you could try to sync the time to microsoft's website. its in the options if you double click the clock in windows. this might help.
Double click the clock in the tray. Click on Time Zone or Internet Time, whatever....make sure you don't have the box checked to synch with Microsoft or whoever.
I went back to default on my clock speed and check the time it worked fine then I overclock back and it seems to be normal again.
Newbie questions
1. Will a smart fan work better blowing in the slk800 or off?
2. what is fsb spectrum? mine was set at .50 I disabled it ...
3. My Corsiar 3200LLPT is running at SPD and my cpu fsb is 200 do I need to run sync to run better??? since both fsb are 200 does this matter? becuase my timmer are better at SPD.
Newbie questions
1. Will a smart fan work better blowing in the slk800 or off?
2. what is fsb spectrum? mine was set at .50 I disabled it ...
3. My Corsiar 3200LLPT is running at SPD and my cpu fsb is 200 do I need to run sync to run better??? since both fsb are 200 does this matter? becuase my timmer are better at SPD.
Just for question No1: A smart fan won't be useful if it's sucking (the fan i mean) air coz it's speed it variable and usually their pressure (- or+) isn't that strong so it's better (asaik from experience) to make it blow (the fan i mean) in.
ROFL. "Void your warranty"?
Stop reading the boxes on retail shelves. Next thing you're going to tell me is that overburning will kill your CDRW drive.
Just don't overvolt the bejesus out of the thing and no one's the wiser.
BTW, AMD does warranties based on a combination of the retail-packaged HSF and processor S/N - so keep your AMD-issued heatsink around.
- M4H
Stop reading the boxes on retail shelves. Next thing you're going to tell me is that overburning will kill your CDRW drive.
Just don't overvolt the bejesus out of the thing and no one's the wiser.
BTW, AMD does warranties based on a combination of the retail-packaged HSF and processor S/N - so keep your AMD-issued heatsink around.
- M4H
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