Athlon XP 1600+, whether to unlock or not?

[BladeWalker]

I'm trying to decide whether it is worthwhile to unlock this puppy (XP 1600+ AGOIA). I use Thermalright SLK-800 heatsink with a quiet Panaflo 80mm fan. Don't want go with any louder fan. How much OC can you do with this combo? Here is my system spec:

Chieftec SX1040
Antec TruePower 550W PS
Epox nForce2 8RDA+
Athlon XP 1600+
(2)256MB Crucial 2100 DDR
Radeon 9500 128MB
120 Gig WD(8m cache) hard drive
TDK 48x CDRW

 

[Killrose]

My XP 1600+ AGOIA is stable at XP 2000+ speeds using a 9x185MHz combo. You should be able to get 155-166MHz stable with your ram depending on timmings I would think. Try (Default multiplier)10.5X159MHz FSB and 1.8v core and see if that will work.

 

[RU482]

OMG, with that chip, you'd be silly...I mean damn silly, to not overclock. I had one running at 1789 Mhz stable as could be under 24/7 100% load

 

[Killrose]

Oh, and I would set my ram voltage to 1.63v in bios, 1.77v (or whatever the next step up is) if that did'nt work.

 

[maluckey]

Mine runs stable all day long at 1700mhz, by FSB overclocking. My weak link are the cards, and the memory/ memory bus. I couldn't run CAS 222 2t above 152 FSB.

 

[BladeWalker]

Thanks for everyone's input. I'll start with FSB overclocking. I don't have the defogger kit to unlock my chip yet. My local Pepboy doesn't even carry it anymore.

 

[Killrose]

Comm'on let's hear how it went

Mine will do 1.7@1.84v, but I never like to run over 1.8v