AMD Athlon XP 1400 Overclocking

[magratton]

I have an old AMD Athlon XP 1400. I seem to recall that some of these were quite good at overclocking. I have the old style ABit NF7-s V2.0 (not the S2)... the ones that were an overclockers dream (actually it's Megatomic's old NF7 board).

So, I am asking all you old timers to draw on your memories on which steppings were the good over clockers and even some tips on oc'ing them. Any differences from any other chips of more recent repute (I used to have an AMD Athlon XP-M 2500).

Anyhow, any tips/info would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Peter007]

You have the very first AthlonXP.
They're are HORRIBLE overclocking. Over Heat very easily. I"m know, I've got an XP1500+.
Buy yourself a BIG Copper HSF

I've have since upgraded to Tbred 1700+ & 2200+. Much Faster & Cooler

 

[imported_Kiwi]

There were several AMD XP's, starting from the one with a "Palomino" core. The AMD cpu's immediately previous to the Palominos ran quite hot at their stock speeds. Your Palomino equates to a 1.2 GHz Thunderbird, and was somewhat cooler running, but less flexible for overclocking. The Thoroughbred "B" series was much better for overclocking, and also as per the prior reply, cooler-running. The slower Barton XP's were still cooler-running, but the 3000 (at least in the 400 fsb version I have), and 3200 were back to running very warm at stock speeds.

I have a Vantec AeroFlow TMD hsf on my XP 3000, which is slightly overclocked, and I see some seemingly high temps in MBM5 and in the BIOS' health readings, but I can cup the base of the hsf in my hand when it's reading 56-57 Celcius, and not be at all uncomfortable, so I think the {A7N8X-X) sensor under the cpu is inaccurate.


:thumbsup:

 

[Vegitto]

Yeah, I have one, too. T-Bird, I think..

 

[VertigoLabs]

i have a 1400+ xp running at 1.7 right now

building new comp soon this one has served me well for almost 3 years