Tomorrow, I will be getting the last few parts to finish off my first computer building project. Here are the specs:
-AMD Athlon 2500+ Barton
-Biostar M7NCD Pro
-Antec Lanboy with 350w Smart Blue
-Visiontek Radeon 9600
-Maxtor DiamondMax 120gb, 8mb cache
-Lite On 16xDVD/52xCDRW Combo Drive
-USRobotics 22mbps Wireless 802.11b PCI
-2X80mm CoolerMaster Dual Ball Bearing -Fans (one in front for intake, and one in rear for exhaust)
*I had in one stick of 512mb pc2700 Kingston Valueram (sold)
...I am getting tomorrow:
-Cooler Master Aero 7+ HSF
-Vantec Iceberq Solid Copper VGA, and Chipset cooler combo
-Blue Rounded Cables (I think it will contrast nicely against the red MoBo)
-Geil Ultra Dual Channel Kit pc3200 2x256mb
*I have a tube of Arctic Silver Ceramique laying around from when I purchased the Mobo/CPU from Newegg last month, that is unused.
I will finally get to install these parts, and finish off my computer...just as all my components get outdated.
I will finally get to tinker at overclocking (which I haven't been able to since I owned a Dell).
...I have some experience with overclocking, since I've owned a Gainward Golden Sample GF4, and now a Radeon 9600 (overclocked slightly), but have never had the opportunity to tinker with AMD chips, and Motherboard bios. I have read up ALOT about overclocking from this forum, as well as nForce mobo forum, and overclockers.com, but I wanted to get some more "sound advice".
I notice that alot of people have their Barton 2500+ FSB set to 200, and multipliers set to 11 (200x11=2,200 ghz or XP3200+ speeds). I'm guessing that this should be attainable in my setup as well? How small of increments should I go, and how long of benchmarking at each increments should I perform? I've read about other nForce2 boards coming with "not so great" northbridge heatsinks. How are the ones on the M7NCDP? Should I use the extra Heatsinks included in my Iceberq kit on anythin on the motherboard? Will I need to tinker with the RAM timings at all? Anything extra that you would recommend? Any additional advice on a noobie overclocker? You guys have been great so far! Thanks for all the help.
-AMD Athlon 2500+ Barton
-Biostar M7NCD Pro
-Antec Lanboy with 350w Smart Blue
-Visiontek Radeon 9600
-Maxtor DiamondMax 120gb, 8mb cache
-Lite On 16xDVD/52xCDRW Combo Drive
-USRobotics 22mbps Wireless 802.11b PCI
-2X80mm CoolerMaster Dual Ball Bearing -Fans (one in front for intake, and one in rear for exhaust)
*I had in one stick of 512mb pc2700 Kingston Valueram (sold)
...I am getting tomorrow:
-Cooler Master Aero 7+ HSF
-Vantec Iceberq Solid Copper VGA, and Chipset cooler combo
-Blue Rounded Cables (I think it will contrast nicely against the red MoBo)
-Geil Ultra Dual Channel Kit pc3200 2x256mb
*I have a tube of Arctic Silver Ceramique laying around from when I purchased the Mobo/CPU from Newegg last month, that is unused.
I will finally get to install these parts, and finish off my computer...just as all my components get outdated.
I will finally get to tinker at overclocking (which I haven't been able to since I owned a Dell).
...I have some experience with overclocking, since I've owned a Gainward Golden Sample GF4, and now a Radeon 9600 (overclocked slightly), but have never had the opportunity to tinker with AMD chips, and Motherboard bios. I have read up ALOT about overclocking from this forum, as well as nForce mobo forum, and overclockers.com, but I wanted to get some more "sound advice".
I notice that alot of people have their Barton 2500+ FSB set to 200, and multipliers set to 11 (200x11=2,200 ghz or XP3200+ speeds). I'm guessing that this should be attainable in my setup as well? How small of increments should I go, and how long of benchmarking at each increments should I perform? I've read about other nForce2 boards coming with "not so great" northbridge heatsinks. How are the ones on the M7NCDP? Should I use the extra Heatsinks included in my Iceberq kit on anythin on the motherboard? Will I need to tinker with the RAM timings at all? Anything extra that you would recommend? Any additional advice on a noobie overclocker? You guys have been great so far! Thanks for all the help.
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