Is this CPU speed pretty good for overclocked???

[robisc]

I have never really been into CPU overclocking or PC gaming except back in the Celery 300 days, but always of course I want the best out of all my systems, so I was looking at one of my systems and considering a CPU upgrade to an XP 2500 or 2600 after the first of the year once the prices drop a little, right now it has an Athlon XP 1700 in an Epox 8RDA+ board. So I was playing with the BIOS last night and bumped the FSB speed up to 166 which makes the CPU run at 1916 MHz, curious about stability, I ran some Sisoft benchamrks and played with it a little while, there seems to be no lockups or hiccups (so far). This is a retail CPU with stock heatsink and fan, I guess I am posting this is because to me I am pretty impressed with this speed increase for it to have been so easy, no pins shorted, watercooling or anything. For you guys that really keep up with overclocking is this pretty good in your opinion? Now I don't want this to become a post with a bunch of: "Well my CPU can hit blah, blah, blah MHz with liquid nitrogen etc." or anything like that just looking for some knowledgable input.

 

[robcy]

The Tbreb b 1700+'s that run at 1.5v have proven themselves to be extremely good overclockers. I have seen a couple do 200x11(2200mhz) by bumping the vcore to 1.65v-1.7v on stock colling and run below 50c. 166fsb while being a good overclock is probably just a fraction of what your chip is capable of. If you can reach these speeds on your 1700+ then I would suggest you put off the 2500+/2600+ upgrade for a while, and get 512mb or 1 gig of DDR3200 or higher.

 

[InlineFive]

Originally posted by: robcy
The Tbreb b 1700+'s that run at 1.5v have proven themselves to be extremely good overclockers. I have seen a couple do 200x11(2200mhz) by bumping the vcore to 1.65v-1.7v on stock colling and run below 50c. 166fsb while being a good overclock is probably just a fraction of what your chip is capable of. If you can reach these speeds on your 1700+ then I would suggest you put off the 2500+/2600+ upgrade for a while, and get 512mb or 1 gig of DDR3200 or higher.

 

[robisc]

get 512mb or 1 gig of DDR3200

It is running 1 GB Crucial PC2700 right now

 

[Sheriff]

I guess I am posting this is because to me I am pretty impressed with this speed increase for it to have been so easy, no pins shorted, watercooling or anything. For you guys that really keep up with overclocking is this pretty good in your opinion?

It's pretty much the Norm, you can check the OC Forum for more info, and although some 2700 RAM OC's the rating is a far cry from 3200 which OC as well. (333 vs 400 FSB)

 

[0roo0roo]

without a voltage bump.. its in the ok area. not really impressive, but not bad for no effort. semi old but informative thread http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/showthread.php?s=1675558dbf067b839cd21e6e14cca039&threadid=187887&highlight=1800

 

[robcy]

Your DDR 2700 is rated at 166mhz (333mhz DDR), you might (big might) be able to overclock your DDR to 3200 spec which is 200mhz (400mhz DDR). If your chip went to 11.5x166mhz (1916mhz) without a problem you run a pretty good chance of getting it to atleast 10x200 (2000mhz) with out having to change the vcore. What usually holds back overclocking good chips is ram, since AMD chips run best when the fsb and mem are run at equal speed. The DDR 3200 or higher would be good investment since they provide higher headroom for any future upgrades. The 2500+ are stock 166fsb, and a normal overclock would be to raise the fsb to 200 since the multipliers are locked on most new chips. If you want to keep your current ram, you can always raise the multiplier and overclock more with your current setup, try 12x166 (2000mhz) or 12.5x166 (2083mhz). Remember that at the same speed the chip with the higher fsb will always be faster. Example: 15x133 (2000mhz) < 12x166 (2000mhz) < 10x200 (2000mhz).