Athlon XP 1600+ O/C Limit?

[moonshinemadness]

I got an Athlon Xp 1600+(Dont know what core) on an Asus A7N8X Deluxe Board with 1GB DDR 2700 Generic Ram (2X 512 Sticks in dual Channel) what kinda over clocking speeds should i be looking at getting, also is there a program i can get to tell me Exactly what my cpu is running at? Thanks

 

[hawkeyewx]

Most people use either WCPUID or CPU-Z to see what their cpus are running at.

That Athlon XP 1600+ is a Palomino. Unfortunately, Palominos run pretty hot and are lousy overclockers. What you want is the Thoroughbred B 1700+. I just recently upgraded from a Palomino 1600+ to a TBred 1700+. Most people are able to overclock to at least 2GHz with not much voltage increase.

 

[paperfist]

I have a XP1600+ on a Abit NF7-S board and Corsair XMS RAM and it won't budge one bit for overclocking. Think it's time for a Barton2500+.

 

[Blooz1]

A good 1600 can do up to about 1.85GHz. A more realistic expectation would be about 1.75GHz.

People today have been "spoiled" by the ease of OC'ing the T-Bred chips! Getting a good OC on a Palamino was much harder, but a sense of accomplishment came with a stable OC....

I see so many posts now by people who have no clue about what they are doing who are "stamping their foot" because their system won't run over 2.4GHZ at 200FSB+ just because that's what they want it to run at right out of the box!

 

[moonshinemadness]

I managed to get it up to 155 x 10.5 (multiplier locked) which is stabily 1.5...Ghz Messed up my generic ram by putting it to 2t, woops, so will have to start again (By Stabily i mean it ran Prime 95 Torture test for 8 hours 30 mins straight with no errors.

 

[Dexion]

You might want to check the database of Overclockers.com for your CPU and how most people are doing with that specific Palomino core.