What are the effects of overclocking a TBird 1.4?

[Furyline]

Hello,
My friend just overclocked his Athlon TBird 1.4 Ghz @ 1.6 ghz. He did not increase the voltage. I have the same processor, but am wary about the risks. So what exactly are the real risks of that? And would it make a big performance difference?

Mike

 

[pay]

Shorter life, voided warrenty, instability, and higher temps. Not worth it if you ask me! They're already fast enough!

 

[smp]

Since you're new here,

welcome!

Now... we have a cpu and overclocking forum you should check first, people get pretty anal around here about that sort of thing.

Now, there isn't really too much risk as long as you go slow. Like, what happens is this.. You up the multiplier by .5, boot up, run a distributed client (genome@home, seti@home etc) for a few hours, see if it's okay. Prime 95, or CPU burn in from sisoft sandra.. games are good for this too. This is the stability test. Monitor your cpu temps all the while. Everything checks out, your CPU is perfectly healthy.. so then go and bump up the multiplier some more, or the FSB, your preference, I like multiplier OC because I run everything else (pci, ide, agp) at normal speed. Keep going untill you get instability or no post. It's not big deal, if you don't post, just clear your CMOS and start over. Chances of you frying your CPU are almost nill if you take it slow. Good luck.

 

[smp]

Upping the voltage will shorten the life of your CPU and void the warranty. I OC but I don't up voltage. You don't really need to worry too much about the voltage as long as you have a good cooler on your CPU. Your CPU will be obsolete before it dies of overvoltage anyways.

edit:
Okay. As an example I'll show you my OC.
I have an A7V (100 mhz fsb kt133) with a 900 tbird. I run the tbird at 100 x 10.5 so I have a 1050 mhz tbird now. I didn't overvolt it, because I didn't need to, I can't hit 1100 with default voltage, but I might be able to if I give it more, only my cooler is a cheapo cooler master so I ain't gonna. Actually, my fsb is something like 103 right now, so it's like.. more, but you get the idea.

 

[Furyline]

Thanks a lot, ill try to post it in the correct forum from now on.

Thanks again,
Mike

 

[Smbu]

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It will run faster.

 

[ST4RCUTTER]

The thing about the T-bird 1.4 is that it's already running hot stock. The 1.4 represents about as far as AMD could push the old Athlon core. The processor life of most CPU's is 10+ years, so I wouldn't worry about shortening the life...do you really want that 1.4Ghz when the 15+Ghz chips are around...not likely.