how do i overclock my Athlon XP??

[fugly]

i bought this in 2003 and still havent overclocked it. i have no clue about overclocking but bought this pc specifically for that.

my system:

Athlon XP 2100+
1 Gig RAM Corsair (XMS) DDR 400
200gb Segate (cooler with 2 fans on it)
80gb Maxtor (same type of cooler)
Asus MO
Coolmax PSU 500W
ATI Radeon 9500pro 128 bit Vid card
4 fans, 1 on top that blows the air out, 1 on side that blows air in, and 2 at the back-1 blows in and the other out.
red neon light

help me out guys, do i gotta change settings at the startup or how exactly do i go about overclocking my pc?

 

[fugly]

damn, can't anybody help me? at least point me out towards a link in which i should educate myself before asking questions or something.

 

[fugly]

Download CPU-Z and report back whether your CPU is a Palomino, TbredA or TbredB.

i assume its TbredA

here is my specs

http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/5968/specska3.jpg

 

[kryojenix]

A newbie's guide to Overclocking an Athlon XP CPU

I still haven't tried overclocking either. I feel I don't want to do anything to risk harm to the last and greatest of Socket A. [see my sig] It's become, like, my collector's item or something. Can't wait to upgrade to AM2 and deliberately get something low-end to overclock at the outset ... sometime between July 2007 and March 2008.

 

[MysticDee]

ive had a little go with overclocking my barton core but im almost sure that without some extreme cooling this baby is already running close to its maximum on air. Ive seen some thoroughbred cores go higher, quite a but higher but mine shuts down at around 2.3 which isnt worth the extra heat generated.

 

[Colonel_Curly]

A simpler way to OC would be for you to get Asus AI Pro, I use it to OC my 4200 to 2.6Ghz and its simple (so long as you know what and NOT what to change)

http://www.pctuning.cz/ilustrace2/charles/motherboards/Asus_P5RD1-V/Asus_P5RD1-V_soft23_big.jpg

Note the spanner icon next to the blue box and click on it. It will then bring up the rest of the menu, here you OC. With the option to view the External Frequency selected you merely have to click on the '+' icon next to the 200mhz display (doing this will make the mhz increase).
Click the '+' icon till the display shows 205mhz then click on the apply button beneath. Then OK.
This should then have either crashed your system or increased your processor speed by 50mhz. If this action has resulte in your pc crashing then you can't OC that much, instead try it again but by clicking the '+' icon once and then apply it to see if the system is stable at that level of OC'ing.

NOTE: Leave the voltage for the moment and just see how far you an OC without increasing your electricity bill.
Also should this crash your system to the point where you can't return to the desktop then you'll have to go into BIOS and reset your BIOS settings. If you van't even get into the BIOS then you'll have to remove the motherboard battery to reset the settings. Beyond that you've wrekced your system :lol:

Good luck an I hope all that helps.

 

[david_uk]

I have been trying to find a way to overclock my athlon 3500+ venice processor on an Asus A8N-VM motherboard. This motherboard has very limited overclocking capability and all I have been able to achieve is to increase FSB from 200mhz to 219mhz, resulting in processor speed increase of 2.2 to 2.43ghz.

I was therefore interested to learn of this Asus AI Pro software overclocking tool. Would I be able to use Asus AI Pro to overclock my processor (I would like to fractionally increase core voltage) and if so, where can I get it. I have google searched for it but with no success.

Thanks

 

[purdueguy]

Well, this is coming from experience just a couple of weeks ago. I've had an Athlon XP 2400+ for a few years and never OC'd it.

I was curious how my system performed and this is what led me to overclocking it. I have the A7N8X-E Deluxe mobo.

First of all, I'd update your BIOS with Asus WinFlash that should be on the CD that came with the mobo. The latest version is 1.008 and yours is 1.002.

I can't change the muliplier since my T-bird's multiplier is locked. There are ways around this like the pencil trick from what I remember but I haven't looked into the details of doing this, yet.

Therefore, I went into the BIOS and started changing the FSB frequency in increments of 5 MHz. I would save & reboot. If the computer would POST then I would just repeat the process. If it didn't POST, I bumped up the voltage. I ended up with a stable FSB of 150MHz with the stock cooler. From 2.0GHz to 2.25GHz. Not to shabby for an aluminum stock cooler. Oh, I did have to bump up my voltage to 1.85.

Under load, the CPU is pushing around 60 C. Some people have told me this is high and that 50 C would be better. I read somewhere that the max core temperature is 85 C but I know I don't want to be anywhere near this. But, I feel comfortable with 60 C. That's 140 F.

the record highest temperature ever measured in the U.S (134 degrees F at Death Valley, CA in July of 1913), and the hottest temperature ever recorded anywhere on the globe (136 F at Al' Aziziyah, Libya in September of 1922)

from NASA.

To All:

I see that the sideband is enabled on Fugly's screen capture of CPU-Z. When I did CPU-Z, it told me that sideband was disabled. Does anyone know how to enable it? Does sideband help in making the system run faster? I went into my BIOS and did not see the option to enable it. Does this mean I can't? Can I through Windows?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Colonel_Curly]

Here's is the Asus support page: http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us

By entering in my mobo model and then selecting Utilities I get this page:
http://support.asus.com/download/download_item.aspx?product=1&model=A8N-SLI%20Deluxe&SLanguage=en-us

(My mobo: Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe)

Now I entered in your mobo and it doesn't present the AI booster as a option for downloading, I assume this means that you can't use this tool sadly. But you're welcome to try it anyway, but it could well screw things up alot (I'm not a expert in this so I'm warning you now).

My bad for getting people's hopes up, I thought it would be available to all Asus mobos but finding that it only appears for specific mobos has gotten me to re-think this.

BUT if it doesn't work and you're feeling adventurous (or just don't plain care about possibly wrecking your pc) then you could OC in the BIOS. With Asus it should be in the Power section and bare in mind you'll have to change the configurator to manual to change the External Frequency.
Just do as it has been suggested above; increase the frequency in small increments at a time(when doing this on BIOS you'll have to quit&save and boot up to the desktop before you'll know for definate that you're system is still stable) and try to avoid messing with the voltage (absolutely NO MAJOR changes +or-).

ALSO try increasing the multiplyer if you can this is a much easier way to get your cpu to run faster.

To the temperature post above; 60c is too much imo (is that idle or full load btw? Either way its abit too high for my liking). Get a better cpu cooler, they're simple enough to connect and power up, but do take care when mounting it.
I've never mounted a cpu fan personally but the whole procedure I wouldn't attempt until after I've done it personally at uni (gimme a year when we cover it 😀 )

 

[fugly]

thanx for everyones feedback.

i never thought overclocking could be so damn hard. should i invest all of my energy into educating myself, then risk my pc. or do you think i should just leave it as it is?

cuz a guy who helped me put this pc together specifically ordered parts for overclocking them. he said i can go from 2100+ to 2800+ and have no problems whatsoever.