Athlon Mobile Barton

[iversonyin]

First off,

1. Do I need a particular Thermtlake HSF for Mobile Barton?

2. if I was to OC this chip, a PC3200 RAM would go with it just fine? Since the effective FSB for Barton is 133mhz and PC3200 effective speed is 200mhz according to the OC guide?

3. All I need to do is to pump up the FSB and do trial and error and it should OC?

 

[BlueWeasel]

(1) No the stock AMD heatsink and fan should be fine unless you're trying for a monster overclock.

(2) PC3200 is backwards compatible and will run at the slower 166Mhz and 133Mhz speeds just fine.

(3) If you've got a board that supports multiplier adjustments, then you can OC using a combination of multiplier and FSB adjustments. That's why it's really important to get a board that can adjust the multiplier in the BIOS when trying to overclock the mobile Bartons.

 

[iversonyin]

what i'm tryign to say is PC3200 is effective at 200mhz, which will in theory give me enough room to push the FSB of CPU to 200mhz with 1:1 CPU:RAM ratio correct?

 

[BlueWeasel]

Yes, but you'll need a board with multiplier adjustments to be able run the mobile at a good multiplier with 200 FSB (likely 11.5x200 or 12x200).