Dunno if its considered overclocking or a bug:
If your a MSI user with a decent fan.
I found out that the XP1700 is in reality a downclocked XP 1900+
So what you need to do:
No you don't need to bridge the L1 Connectors or anything.
Just go onto your bios go into Hardware management ( I forgot what the exact name is)
and change your FSB to 140.. under FSB clock rate or whatever. leave everything else at default as AUTO.
CPU sectrum set it to disabled.
( here is the cool thing)
When you reboot your computer ITS still at 133 Bus.. but your clock is now at 1600mhz without changing any multipliers or the actual FSB.
Your bios will now report your processor as a Athlon XP 1900 running at 1600mhz
my tempetures before this sort of overclock : 32C
after "overclock" 35C
plus I noticed a significant performance gain.
For the XP1800 I got it to report to XP2000+ but couldn't get past it.
Anyhow I have to return my 1800 since Its on a RMA.
I'll keep my nice 1700
If your a MSI user with a decent fan.
I found out that the XP1700 is in reality a downclocked XP 1900+
So what you need to do:
No you don't need to bridge the L1 Connectors or anything.
Just go onto your bios go into Hardware management ( I forgot what the exact name is)
and change your FSB to 140.. under FSB clock rate or whatever. leave everything else at default as AUTO.
CPU sectrum set it to disabled.
( here is the cool thing)
When you reboot your computer ITS still at 133 Bus.. but your clock is now at 1600mhz without changing any multipliers or the actual FSB.
Your bios will now report your processor as a Athlon XP 1900 running at 1600mhz
my tempetures before this sort of overclock : 32C
after "overclock" 35C
plus I noticed a significant performance gain.
For the XP1800 I got it to report to XP2000+ but couldn't get past it.
Anyhow I have to return my 1800 since Its on a RMA.
I'll keep my nice 1700
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