What speed can I expect to reach?

[Edman]

Hi, I'm planning to upgrade my current system (PT3 550@616, 192PC100 RAM) to an Athlon 800TBIRD an a AOpen's AK33 Mobo, so my question is, what speed can I expect to reach?

Any opinions will be appreciate it!!

Regards!!

 

[xtreme2k]

900-950 within acceptable temp and voltage

 

[pillage2001]

Yeah bout 900-950. If you're lucky enough 1Ghz might be at your reach.

 

[Edman]

So, what you think, that is the most important thing that will stop the overclocking capability of the system?.

Upgrading to PC133 will resolve this problem?.

 

[Elbryn]

well the ram speed really doesnt play an issue in athlon overclocking unless you really start messing with the front side bus speeds and even then the athlon motherboards wont take huge fsb increases well. Couple things for overclocking, make sure you get a mobo that can either do the jumperless multiplier changing(abit kt7, asus a7v, msi k7t pro2) or has jumpers that you can set( i dont know any off hand or whether there are any even) then your biggest enemy is heat. YOu'll want good cooling for your case as well as a good heat sink fan combo to keep the cpu cool. Then its up to the cpu. Some cpu's overclock farther and with greater ease than others while some wont overclock much at all.

 

[Renob]

Well i think 900 and 950 is kinda low I have 3 friends with 800 t-birds and 2 of them hit a gig and the other hit 1100