overclocking Barton 2500+

[billball]

Hello,
I am new to o/c and I need some help and advice please,my system is:
MSI K7N2 Motherboard
AMD Athlon 2500xp Barton Processor
1Gb Geil 3200 Memory
120Gb Seagate HDD
DVD-RW Pioneer 106
DVD-ROM Liteon
CD-RW Liteon
Sapphire Radeon 9800xt Graphics card
Windows xp Home SP1
All driver and Windows updates with the exeption of BIOS (I have 3.30 newest is 3.90).
I would like to o/c my processor to 2Gb, the heatsink I have fitted is a Akasa AK 824cu rated up to 3000xp(I think),
my problem is I don,t know where to start,can anyone help,can anyone see any problems,
thank you,
Bill.

 

[billball]

Sorry 2ghz,
Bill.

 

[myocardia]

With what you've bought, you should be able to jump right to 11x200 fsb, no problems at all. Just make sure you raise the processor's voltage (called vcore, in the bios) to at around 1.75v. You can lower it later, and see if it's still stable.

 

[fireontheway]

start by simply adjusting the FSB in small increments. i was able to OC mine to 2.2ghz with no voltage increase, but every system is diffrerent

 

[FrustratedUser]

Just yank the FSB all the way up to 200 and Vcore to 1.75 and try.

 

[DerwenArtos12]

I shouldn't think yoou should need to up the vcore at all. When i got mine i jsut upped the fsb and when i first booted and never looked back. Now i have it at 2.5ghz with 1.85Vcore and 1.8northbridge, and 2.8 mem.

 

[billball]

Thank you everyone,
I will be giving it a try do,s not sound too differcult(I hope),
again thank you,
Bill.

 

[BigEdMuustaffa]

Hi, I'm in the same boat, question on ocing.......for those who got barton 2500 fsb to 200/400, what memory did you use, pc 2700 or pc 3200 and what brand? There are some deals on PNY and Kingston, etc....and although people say use good memory like Corsair or Mushkin, will PNY or Kingston work? I have some pc2700 pny that uses Samsung chips, I heard people were able to oc the 2500 using this. thanks......

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: BigEdMuustaffa
Hi, I'm in the same boat, question on ocing.......for those who got barton 2500 fsb to 200/400, what memory did you use, pc 2700 or pc 3200 and what brand? There are some deals on PNY and Kingston, etc....and although people say use good memory like Corsair or Mushkin, will PNY or Kingston work? I have some pc2700 pny that uses Samsung chips, I heard people were able to oc the 2500 using this. thanks......

Any PC3200 memory will work if it isn't faulty. At 200fsb you run at standard PC3200 speed.
I got crucial PC3200, nothing fancy and it works just fine.

 

[VTrider]

Originally posted by: BigEdMuustaffa
Hi, I'm in the same boat, question on ocing.......for those who got barton 2500 fsb to 200/400, what memory did you use, pc 2700 or pc 3200 and what brand? There are some deals on PNY and Kingston, etc....and although people say use good memory like Corsair or Mushkin, will PNY or Kingston work? I have some pc2700 pny that uses Samsung chips, I heard people were able to oc the 2500 using this. thanks......

I have my Barton 2500+ @ 3200+ speeds using 1GB of Crucial PC2700 believe it or not. I had issues with this same RAM running @ 177FSB on my old KT333 board (Epox 8K5A2+), so I thought that was the limit. So either my Epox board did not like the higher FSB or running this PC2700 in dual channel mode somehow lets it get to 200FSB, dunno?

Anyhow, I thought I would have to get some new PC3200 RAM when I got this Barton, but i'm glad I tried my PC2700 RAM first - you should too you never know I guess?

 

[Lpenguin]

The XP2500 in my Asus A7V8 is the easiest OC I ever did. But I did have to goto PC3200 first. The memory is set at default. Then I just bumped the FSB to 200, left the voltage alone, and it has been flawless ever since.

Just about everyone has sucess with the XP2500 at 200 FSB. I think that is the only CPU to buy at this time.