How much OC can u get from AMD Athlon - not A64!

[crazylegs]

OK so my mate runs a small inet / games cafe in the UK - its been there a while and he not upgraded em yet...

ALthough the PC's r fine for general use they r a bit long in the tooth for gaming...think they are Athlon 2400+'s??? not sure though

What kind of a boost is he likely to get from any possible OC??? Baring in mind that the mobo and RAM are prob pretty cheap and they r stock cooling. Finding it hard to find ne OC info for these older CPUs... not even sure if these r good OCers at all....

any info appreciated

thanx all

 

[aka1nas]

very little. 2400+s are 2Ghz, 133FSB chips. with good cooling, 2.3Ghz+ is possible, but I doubt you will get that with a cheap mobo and weak cooling. The boards probably do not have PCI or AGP locks, which means you will not get very far with FSB OC'ing. 133FSB Athlon platforms are going to be sluggish with newer high end games regardless of how high you get the cpu in them up to.

 

[vaylon]

Right now I am running test on a xp2400+.oc to 2.4 ghz.
Its 200 fsb .
and air cooled stock fan.

Its been running this way for about 2 weeks. Totally stable.

Not sure what happened with it though, because for the past couple of years it would only do a small oc to 2.17 ghz stable.

All this on a dragonkt600 with a gig of ram pc3200

sandra results are

drhystone= 9115
whetstone= 3712

according to tomshardwares cpu chart I am running close to the speed of an xp3200+ and and seems to be running neck and neck with athlon64 3000 and 3200.

I may try to up it a little more on the fsb to see what happens.

 

[TSS]

i'd think you'd get more performance from just buying new PCs especially for gaming, then OCing those old ones. on a cheap mobo and ram, its not likely performance will increase that much. and its still mostly the graphics card that does the work in games.

might be wise to buy a few PCs with good graphic cards, and use those as gaming PCs and keep the ones he has now for internet. a cyber cafe here where i live (holland) has like 20-25 PCs bbought and configured for gaming (all have 800XTs and good procs) and 6 slower ones still for internet, that where once used for games. works as a charm here. though i dont know what the situation is there, if he gets more customers for games than internet its worth it. if the other way around, you can leave them at stock speeds.

got any more specs of the systems? and where do you want to gain performance, in games or smoothness while browsing the web?