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lakersbaby

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hi im fairly new at this overclocking business and most people tell me to not do it since i dont know anything but i gotta start somewhere right? i have a athlon xp 2600+ barton and a abit nf7-s mobo and was wondering if i could get some tips on how to overclock this because i hear it can be overclocked to 3200+. I also have pc3200 ram 512mb. Has anyone had this combo of mobo and processor and had success achieving stability overclocking
 
Well 2600+ aren't considered the best overclockers, however you still have a shot at some nice speeds.

Few questions.

(1) Do you have a after market HSF ( heatsink + fan ) - Retail will be ok for something -

(2) Good case air flow? ( How many case fans )

Your exactly right you have to start somewhere...

To start,

Drop your FSB down some in the BIOS and crank your multiplier up, that way we can stress the CPU only and find it's limits..

IF you get up so high, and experience some instability, bump your CPU Core voltage 5% ( Vcore )

We can get into Vdimm and other things once you get started..

Test with Prime 95 for stability.

Good Luck.. Gotta go for now, i'll be back for more help when you need it.

 
Seeing you have DDR3200 the easiest thing too do would be too go into the bios and change the FSB from 133 too 166 and put down the multiplier too 12.5 that will make your CPU run at 2075Mhz 166 FSB and make your Ram run at 333Mhz that isnt really over clocking your CPU allot but it does give your system more memory Bandwidth and that?s always a good thing

If you have a 2600+ with a 166 FSB and not a 133 FSB you may want too try taking your CPU up too 200FSB ? but before you go all the way too 200 FSB start at 178 and work your way up 3Mhz at a time testing each time if windows loads until windows doesn?t load anymore.

If your system doesn?t boot anymore you hafta clear the cmos the motherboard book tells u how and if u cant find it in your book its easy just unplug the power out of your Computer and take out the little jumper pin next too your bios chip or it could be next too your Battery.

Remember over clocking your CPU without increasing the voltage going too your CPU is pretty much free Speed but once you start putting up the voltage too your CPU that?s when you start getting things heated up and start degrading your CPU
Also make sure your CPU temps arent running too high anything under 50c is good if your CPU is running hotter then that put it back to Default and forget about overclocking until you have better cooling. Heat will kill your CPU over time and will make your system unstable.

But like the saying goes .. a little bit of anything never hurts J

🙂 after your done overclocking then its time too test your computer for stability if it starts crashing go back and lower your overclock until you have a stable system then your done!!! Easy as pie!!
 
i have the retail heatsink and fan however i used thermal paste. I also have 2 case fans, one in the front and one in the back. Thanks for all the help you guys. So ur saying that if i just bump up the fsb little by little i can make it faster without having to change multipliers and voltage? Will it be consistently stable if i only bump the fsb? Thanks alot
 
I wouldn't bump the voltage much at all if any with retail cooling. I normally bump the FSB by 5-10 inscreasments till windows doesn't load and then back off or up the voltage. In your case(retail cooling) back off on the FSB. You have the ram for o/cing providing its not defective.

Only thing that sucks about o/cing is having to run Prime95 for a while to make sure its stable. It could run for 3 hours then halt on a error then you have to back off some on the FSB or up the voltage a bit and try again. Some ppl run it for several hours and even days. Myself if it lasts through 3 hours or so while I am surfing the net,playing music,chatting its stable enough for me.

If your serious about o/cing I would recommend a better cooler and I wouldnt never go over 1.85v on the CPU and thats with a extremely good cooler. You can get a good cooler for $25ish.
 
Originally posted by: lakersbaby
how do you overclock ram?
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well since you have PC3200 you wouldnt be overclocking it at all untill you past the 200FSB mark. Other than you can change the timings of the ram out of spec and that would be o/cing it aswell.
 
Originally posted by: RobertFrost
Originally posted by: bjc112
Well 2600+ aren't considered the best overclockers
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My ass


It's all about luck and your cooling. 2600+ and a SLK947U here. Good luck duder.
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Plenty of people can take a single ss of WCPUID with speeds that high. That doesn't mean it's stable at all. Also, that is one occurance, while in many cases the new 1800+ and the 2500+ are the premium chips to get for OCing.
 
Originally posted by: BigJ
Originally posted by: RobertFrost
Originally posted by: bjc112
Well 2600+ aren't considered the best overclockers
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My ass


It's all about luck and your cooling. 2600+ and a SLK947U here. Good luck duder.
Click to expand...

Plenty of people can take a single ss of WCPUID with speeds that high. That doesn't mean it's stable at all. Also, that is one occurance, while in many cases the new 1800+ and the 2500+ are the premium chips to get for OCing.
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I don't see why it wouldn't be a good overclock. It is based on the Barton Core, and its newer than most 2500+s out there.

Perhaps the Tbred 2600+'s wern't impressive, but the 2600+ Bartons should be from newer yields than the 2500+...
 
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