picking up new mobo combo in a bit, barton overclocking tips???

[HOWITIS]

i'm getting

Abit NF7-S NForce-2 (ver 2)
AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton
1 GB (2 pcs 512) DDR 400


i'm upgrading from a amd 1.33ghz cpu and 396mb of pc133




anyway, i'm hoping to overclock this mother. what is the procedure? just up the multiplier in the bios? anything else i should do? i'll be on stock colling for awhile so is 2800+ speeds possible stock>?

 

[HOWITIS]

well no one wanted to help.


but i am at 2.0ghz right now stock cooling 39c idle. havn't ran anything for stability yet though.
voltage is at 1.65 right now. should i up it?

 

[lookouthere]

run some stability program first, then up the FSB, if it couldn't boot, then up the voltage by 0.05.

 

[MDE]

Don't up it unless you need to. See if it's stable, if not then up the voltage. If it is stable, keep upping the speed. Your temp seems fine and that chip probably has a lot more left in it so go for it. Also, If you have the stock HSF with the copper plate on the bottom, take the plate off and put some AS3 in there if you're really concerned. AMD puts the grey thermal crap between the copper and aluminum. Just unscrew, slide the plate off and clean away.

 

[HOWITIS]

what program should i run for stablility?

 

[MDE]

Prime 95, 3DMark 2001\03, HotCPU Tester, any modern game (serious sam second encounter comes to mind)

 

[VisableAssassin]

myself i run a minimum of 24 hours of prime95 about 6 hours of 3dmark 2k1 and a few other odds and ends. but for yoru chip you should be able to get 2.2ghz at stock voltage with ease....if you cant then more than likely youll get 2.2ghz @ 1.675v just gotta remember ont he newer bartons 2.2-2.3ghz is the minimum you should get....the max being 2.4ghz all the way to 2.6ghz....2.6being very lucky and or very good cooling

 

[HOWITIS]

system restarted on itself during UT2003 so i uped the voltage to 1.7v and it did the same thing during prime95 test. whats up with that? i back to stock form as of now.

 

[HOWITIS]

i uped it to 1.725 and at 10x200 it quits at test 30 with a fatal error. what could be the problem? i must be really unlucky or something. i guess i'll just forget about overclocking.

 

[infinite012]

maybe its your RAM timings. If they're at SPD could you tell us what your motherboard is telling you about SPD? Also what company makes your ram?

 

[HOWITIS]

its 1gb of corsair xms ddr 3200

(twin sticks of 512mb of course)

 

[infinite012]

oh you have nice ram Well I don't see what the problem is...so good luck!

 

[HOWITIS]

i tried mem timeings at spped. which were. 8,3,3,2.5 and it locked up in prime95 on test 4. no error. froze. this was at 10x200.


i'm trying 8,3,3,2 right now. does anyone have any ideas on what could be my problem or what timmings i should use? should i up the voltage to the ram?

 

[Jeff7181]

What's the stepping on your XP2500?

 

[HOWITIS]

i'm not sure, is there a program i can use to find that out?

 

[HOWITIS]

checking wcpuid yields. family 6,7 model: 10,10. stepping id 0,0


where can i find the stepping code without actually taking the heatsink off.