Overclocking an Athlon 1.2ghz processor...

[Brackus]

Hello,

Firstly, just so everyone has some background info on my computer, it is 2 years old now, and has always had problems, I have replaced many parts, and now, just today, I finally bought a Thermaltake Volcano 9 for my cpu, so that it would no longer overheat and freeze.

I have messed around with the settings in the BIOS screen, or whatever it is once I press del during startup (A-Open AK73 Pro(A) motherboard) and I can choose the voltage and the speed of the processor, I want to see what my processor can do, so I am thinking of slowly upping the settings, until I find a good stable, faster setting, and a good setting to put myfan at (so it wont overheat, but not be too loud). Anyway, is this a safe way to be overclocking this processor? I cannot afford any new(er) parts, so this is what I'm stuck with, but my cpu is limiting my vid card, and I just wanna see what my vid card can truly do.

So, basically, if I keep upping the clock in mhz, do I gotta keep upping the voltage, or how will I know when to up the voltage, and for what cpu speed settings...

Thanks,

Dustin

 

[Brackus]

anyone?

 

[Ambrosius01]

bump

 

[pspada]

Start by trying to increase the multiplier, at the smallest imcrements available, without changing the voltage, to see what the highest stable setting you can get. You can also try increasing the FSB, but that is more likely to cause problems than just increasing the multiplier. It's possible that you may get enough performance that you might not even have to go any further.

It's possible that you may need to physically modify your chip to allow any overclocking at all, and I don't know that your motherboard will support it, though.

 

[pspada]

Start by trying to increase the multiplier, at the smallest imcrements available, without changing the voltage, to see what the highest stable setting you can get. You can also try increasing the FSB, but that is more likely to cause problems than just increasing the multiplier. It's possible that you may get enough performance that you might not even have to go any further.

It's possible that you may need to physically modify your chip to allow any overclocking at all, and I don't know that your motherboard will support it, though.