Overclocking a retail Duron?

[jaggrey]

I have a retail Duron that I'm debating on selling or keeping for a while until desktop Palominos come out. According to those CPU code tables, my Duron 800 should do between 1025 and 1075. Do you think the fan that comes with the retail chips is decent enough to cool a Duron running close to 1100?

 

[dalilama]

uhhhhhhhhh no.


alpha 6035
thermoengine
fop32
cak38

good luck

 

[FuxOC]

no. and you'll be lucky to get it to 1100. I have a duron 800 and it does 1035 tops. Do yourself a favor and get one of the hsf that dalilama posted.

 

[Boonesmi]

be glad if you get much over 1ghz

 

[Chiznit]

Where is the post from Dalilama?

I am about to recieve my Duron 800 to go on my MSI K7T266. I have a Thermaltake Volcano II and arctic silver II coming.
All this is going in a fong Kai 320.

Think I'll have enough cooling to get over 1000?

 

[jaggrey]

I haven't even taken off the shrinkwrap....has any1 tried taking the CPU off of a retail fan before?

It's still cheaper than buying a new Athlon & fan...if I can get the fan off of the retail one it should be good.

Taisol makes good fans too I've heard. Any1 have any experiences?

 

[JimMc]

Getting a Duron close to 1100 ain't easy, and will in all likelihood take excellent cooling to reach the max for the chip. According to the overclockers.com database the average is 1000--of course you may have a good week. The top overclocks all have one thing in common--non-retail cooling. Most seem to have Alphas, FOPs or Taisols. You will end up fighting heat on a Duron at 1000+ and you'll likely need something better than the Coolermaster or whatever came with it.

 

[jaggrey]

Makes sense....now I don't know what to do.

I'm going to get an Epox 8K7A board and some PC2100 RAM. Since the RAM is 2100, I wanted to get a 133 MHz processor, but since I have this Duron 800 sitting here that I won from AMD D) I'm thinking of either selling it and getting a 266mhz FSB Athlon or just using it and clocking it up to something equiv to my T-Bird 900 slot. I wanna spend as small an amount as possible.
Originally I was thinking that since the Duron is multiplier locked, I would try 8 x 133 = 1064....but I knew that the fan would be a limiting factor (probably along with other things).

I was looking at the Taisol CEK747092, with a copper plate on bottom, to cool this and a Palomino whenever i make that move, but that thing will probalby be expensive.

And the FongKai 320 case rocks!!!!