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need some info on changeing to AMD

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Sniper82

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Hey I have a celeron 2 @900 right now and am looking to buy a Duron 600 and overclock it. Which mobos will let me overclock out of the box without any modding or tweaking. Also would I need to unlock the Duron in order to overclock it? If so could someone explain to me out to do so? Also anymore info would help.

Thanks
 
asus a7v(with dipswitches on the mobo(they are included)) abit kt7(in the bios) of course you need to unlock your duron first.
 
The three motherboards that will overclock right out of the box are the Asus A7V, the Abit KT7, and the MSI K7T Pro2.

The Asus board has dipswitches to allow for multiplier adjustment, the only thing is, not every A7V has these dipswitches. You have to make sure that the vendor that you get this board from mentions that it has the dipswitch multipliers.

The Abit KT7 uses Softmenu III and allows for multiplier adjustment in the bios. Also, if you get the KT7-RAID, you will get built in IDE RAID.

The MSI K7T Pro2 is a new motherboard that is, for the most part, based on the original MSI K7T Pro. The only major difference in the K7T Pro2 is that there are multiplier adjustments in the bios.

You can find reviews for all three of these boards here at anandtech.

As for unlocking the actual Duron you may get lucky and get one that has all of the L1 bridges connected, therefore, you will be able to stick the duron in the mobo put a nice HS/FAN on it and overclock till your heart's content! If the L1 "golden bridges" are not all connected, then you have to take a pencil, preferably mechanical with 0.5mm lead, though 0.7mm will work too, heck even a normal pencil will work really, and connect each golden bridge. The golden bridges are like this : : : : : and you want to connect each one individually so they look like this | | | | |. Then you can overclock. 🙂 Sometimes connecting the bridges with a pencil won't work the first time, if it doesn't, just erase the marks and try again. Or just go over them a little bit.

You can find more information about overclocking socket A chips in a review here at anandtech too. 🙂

Good luck!
 
Ah but you cannot raise the core voltage with the Asus A7V, not in the BIOS and not with any dipswitches, right? I think I remember reading this on Tom's - as oc'ing is very unstable w/o raising the core voltage (at least if you're going for the max), you have to do some work with the soldering iron to raise it on Asus.
Besides the Abit board, there's also the MSI K7T Pro2 (hope that name is right) which should be in stores in some weeks. Most other boards can only raise the bus speed (a no go with the KT133 chipset).

Hope I'm not wrong on anything 🙂
 
Hmmm ... I don't understand that article then:

"The installation of the very small resistor R16 (see picture further above) requires a miniature soldering iron and quite a steady hand. Otherwise it is very easy to accidentally solder the contacts that are very close together. We used a 150-ohm resistor on our test board because the appropriate part (with 100 ohms) was not available. In this case the CPU core voltage should be increased to 1.8 Volts, however, to guarantee stable operation. Installing the Logic-IC (74F125) was no problem at all: The task is accomplished quite easily with tweezers."
(http://www6.tomshardware.com/howto/00q3/000808/a7v-04.html)

Doesn't that mean you've got to install a resistor to raise the voltage? (If Im wrong I just blame it on my bad English skills 😉)
 
k thanks for the info ppl.

K as far as the mobo goes which should I get I don't want to get one where I can't increase the voltage. Which will let me overclock and change voltage out of the box?
 
The A7V *does* have voltage adjustment. Both in BIOS as well as by onboard jumpers, the article at Tom's Hardware was to allow even higher voltage adjustments. There is a mobo out there, the QDI Kinetz 7T, that allows multiplier but no voltage adjustments. Of course you want to avoid this board, I only mention it due to the confusion in this thread.
 
"The A7V *does* have voltage adjustment. Both in BIOS as well as by onboard jumpers, the article at Tom's Hardware was to allow even higher voltage adjustments."Aahh I see ... thanks for explaining.

Sniper, the boards already mentioned above oc without modifications: the Abit KT7 (-Raid), the recent Asus A7V, and the soon-to-come MSI K7T Pro2 ... afaik there is no other board which allows to change multiplier and voltage.
Here is a roundup on 10 socket A mobos (w/o the MSi board, though): http://www6.tomshardware.com/mainboard/00q3/000919/index.html
 
the ep-8kta+ is another option, i have the 8kta "non +" with no multilier or Vio ajustments but its been a good board to me.
 
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