New to OCing. Pleaes help with this mobo (BioStar M7NCD-PRO)

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I just bought a XP2500 barton, without knowing how good of a OCer it is. After reading a lot about OCing the XP2500 on other mobos, I am interested if anyone here has tried OCing the XP2500 on a BioStar M7NCD-PRO mobo and if you have been successful at OCing it up to a XP3200 speed and is it STABLE?

In all honesty I am not even 70% sure of how all the mobo configurations go and will need a lot of help. If you guys could help that would be great! But I have 1 week until the system gets here so I wanted to just get some info before I start. My memory is 512mg pc3200 dual channel ddr400. I don't know what the comapany is yet, but it is suppose to be "Kingston, Samsung, Micron or Nanya "? Thanks much everyone!

EDIT

And what kind of cooling system do you recommend? I want to just stay with air cooling, is that fine?

 

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You should have no problem Overclocking it too 183FSB that bumps the CPU up too 2Ghz from its Default 1.83Ghz and gives you a 2800+ rating.

If your Lucky you should get too 2.2Ghz with 200FSB giving you your 3200+ CPU rating this is all with Default Voltage

the AthlonXP 2500+ is a great overclocker

as for cooling this beast .... anything under 50 C is fine if it goes over that temp then maybe a better heat sink / fan combo would be better then the defaul one that comes with it ... as for me i just use the defaul heatsink fan that came with the CPU and overclock .. i have no problems its under 50C.

this CPU is great because it doesn?t get very hot when overclocking cause your not using any extra Valtage too make it get too the speed you want.

Try and Stick with Defaul Valtage its the best way FREE speed is what u get when you dont add extra juice.

And if you get any crash's when you overclock make sure your running your ram on its deafult memory timings. so its more stable. Biostar is a generic brand but you should at least still be able to get 2Ghz 2800+ from that board if not 2.2 Ghz its like a lucky dip .

Some people even get 2.5Ghz out of there 2500+ CPU's but they add extra Valtage 2 get that.

Good luck

 

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thanks, I hope this goes well, will post more when it arrives.