Athlon xp 2500 mobile

[Assimilator1]

So where you at now? did you drop the FSB a little to slow the cpu or did you just give up & drop it to 2.1GHz 200FSB & be done with it? 😉

 

[bde]

I kind of gave up, But I never dropped anything 😛
yea it's still at 200x11 and 1.8v and I play counter-strike and fifa2005 and No problem what so ever.
so I don't know.

 

[MegaWorks]

Originally posted by: bde
I kind of gave up, But I never dropped anything 😛
yea it's still at 200x11 and 1.8v and I play counter-strike and fifa2005 and No problem what so ever.
so I don't know.

:thumbsup:

 

[cversion7]

I just wanted to add my experience to the forray:

Mobo: Biostar M7NCD (non ultra, non pro)
CPU: Barton 2500+ (non mobile)
RAM: Ultra PC2700 512MB
Heatsink:Spire WhisperRockII

(TigerDirect Barebones special)

This mobo has few overclocking options.
The FSB and memory timings can be adjusted, but no voltages or multi

As soon as I got the system together I was able to bump the FSB to 200 (11x locked multi) and had no problems. I actually ran it that way for 6-8 months as it did not want to go any higher with out issues. I ran across the pin mod guide to up voltages on the cpu by placing IDE wire in the socket at strategic locations thinking this might improve my chances of overclocking. Also, having upgraded to a CPUMate CoolMall Heatsink I had things in order to handle this. I placed the wires in the socket in order to get a 1.75vcore but the bios showed up as 1.85v (1.85-1.89 in Windows depending on programs). I was immediately able to break 200MHZ FSB (memory at 100%, or 1:1 as other bioses put it). I was stable at 215 FSB for months and have recently been trying to tinker a little with it to fine tune. I wanted to get 2.4GHz on air, but am resting right now at 2.39/~1.86GHzvcore/10-3-3-2.5(best timings I can get). I don't have Prime95, but I do have Toast, BurnIn and RTHDRIBL and it will run for about 10 minutes with those before rebooting itself. 218MHz FSB is mostly stable for me and I'm thinking of putting active NB cooling to see if it will be more stable at that speed.

Conclusion, I've been impressed with what I have as I did not expect it to do as well, being a desktop CPU. I'm also well impressed with PC2700(333MHz) memory running at 436MHZ!!! I plan to add water cooling to the CPU and NB with the water chilled by a mini-fridge just to see what happens, and to *tinker* some more. I tried to run the CPU at 220 FSB and mem at 366, but it will not boot and I know the NF2 boards do better with 1:1 anyway. I'll keep plugging away with it, but it's tough to decide where to go next as I would like a better Mobo and more mem but I could wait and go with A64 later.

Just for "funsies" - BFG 6800 GT O/C AGP - 420/1100 on NV5 (won't go 1MHz higher without crashing in 3D games so I'm suffice to say mine is hardware limited to that, same overclock on stock *read-horribly mounted stock hs*)

Great forum and great discussion!!!
-C

 

[Assimilator1]

Good XP2500 you have🙂 ,though I wouldn't recommend that high vcore if you wanta keep the CPU longer than about 1yr.....
What sort of cpu temps do you get?

(and yes I know cpu temps from any mbrd aren't necassarily accurate😛)

bde
I see ,so bascially your ignoring the fact it can't run P95 properly ,well I guess you might get away with it!😉 ,look out for random crashes though as its not completely stable........

GL🙂

 

[cversion7]

Assimilator1-
Burning cds and just milling around, max 32C
Running Toast, and BurnIn, max 43-45C

-C