ocing old sempron

[narreth]

im trying to oc an old sempron 2800+ socket A ( just for experience etc; ). It has a 12x multi and a 166 FSB stock. I increased the fsb to 173 mhz and left everything else on auto ( vcore, agp vcore, ram vcore). It booted windows and im going to test it with prime for a little while. Is leaving those settings on auto bad or is it OK like that?

 

[cusideabelincoln]

Depends on what kind of RAM you have. If you have DDR 400, or some good DDR 333 sticks, leaving those settings on Auto will be fine. You should set the AGP frequency to 66 and the PCI to 33.

However, all of the DDR 333 sticks I've every owned could not overclock past 166 very much. I hope you have some decent RAM. It is not adviseable to run a memory divider with Socket A processors, or at least it was not adviseable with Athlon XPs. Even if you were able to overclock the processor much farther by using a memory divider, performance could actually get worse.

I'd also like to say good luck with the overclock. I tried to clock a Sempron 2500+ on an Abit NF7-S2 and it would fail to post no matter how little I upped the FSB or how much voltage I applied. I blame the crap motherboard for this problem, though, because itss overclocking options are very basic.

 

[narreth]

lol i checked it and my ram is 200mhz? LOL?

i set it back to stock tho

 

[faxon]

200 MHz with DDR ram is the same as DDR400 or PC3200 (whichever you prefer to call it).