AMD Athlon XP 1800+ Overclocking Help, PLEASE READ!!!

[dguy6789]

OK, I have an AMD Athlon XP 1800+ Throughbred B. It default runs at 1.53Ghz with 266FSB and 1.5 Vcore. I have several questions. I plan on my water cooling system to get here tommorrow, so assume i will be running water cooling.
Right now I am running it at 1.66Ghz at 333fsb at 1.5 Vcore.

1. I know vcore increases speed of the electricity to the processor, higher vcore can allow for higher overclocks correct?
2. I also heard vcore can reduce the life of the cpu, if it does, how much would the life be reduced if i go from 1.5 to 1.75?

 

[dguy6789]

cpuid has the following information, would this help for nay of you to tell me how much this baby could OC?

Name: Athlon XP
Codename: Thoroughbred
Package: Socket A
Technology: .13m
Specification: AMD Athlon
Family: 6 Model: 8 Stepping: 0
ext family: 7 ext model: 9 revision: A0
instructions: MMX(+) 3DNOW! (+) SSE

Clock speed: 1670.5 Mhz L1 Data: 64 KBytes
Multiplier 10.0X L1 code: 64 Kbytes
FSB 167.0mhz level 2: 256Kbytes
bus speed: 334.1Mhz

please give me an esitmate on how well this will oc with water cooling. The max i could do is 12.5 X 166, because my memory ios pc2700 and i dont want to mess with the cpu to unlock more multipliers, and i dont want me and fsb to go out of sync please help me out.

 

[Corporate Thug]

1. I know vcore increases speed of the electricity to the processor, higher vcore can allow for higher overclocks correct?

thats right, increased vcore always the chip to be more stable when overclocking


2. I also heard vcore can reduce the life of the cpu, if it does, how much would the life be reduced if i go from 1.5 to 1.75?

i wouldnt worry about 1.75V, even 1.8V. most people dont go over 1.8. almost everyone does not go over 1.85V

 

[bjc112]

Yep, i wouldn't sweat 1.75, or even 1.8 I would think if a CPU is good for 10-15 yrs that it could at least make it for 2yrs+

Plus, who uses them after that

 

[sinthon]

hmm 1800+ why? 2500+ =)