Newbie Question

[michaelsil1]

I just started Overclocking my Athlon XP 2000+ (ASUS A7V333 Motherboard, Corsair XMS2700 Memory). So far I have been very conservative "I've only pushed up to 1750mhz so far". At what point do I have to think about increasing the voltage, also at which point do I have to start worrying about instability in my system.

 

[Guest]

The anwsers are:
- When your system gets unstable, is when you should worry about it.
- When your system gtes unstable, you should consider increasing voltage.



The primary limitation to your oc'ing should be temperature.

1. You overclock your cpu (fsb or whatever).
2. Boot up - Check temps
3. Bench to make sure system is stable - Check temps
4. If system is stable you can keep oc'ing
5. If system is unstable and temperatures are acceptable you can increase the voltage (slowly) until it is stable.

IF AT ANY TIME YOU BREAK 55C you should stop. Thats just unhealthy. Unless you really know what you are doing.


If i had a cray... could i ray trace Quake III in realtime?!!!! j/k

 

[Quetzacoatl]

He's never gonna get it that high with DDR-333, already the FSB is stressing to move along with that much. Still, would be interesting to see an Athlon system running stably at 12.5x166.67. Thats 2083Mhz with an improved FSB!

As for an answer to his question-
Well, you can keep going as high as you can until the system gets unstable, like when you experience numerous crashes. Otherwise, leave it at 1.75, the Athlon was designed to not run at full voltage. Fifty five celsius isn't that bad, I know some friends computers who are running at 60 and 65 respectfully, albeit I wouldn't want to run at that high for too long. You should be able to get pretty high with a decent cooler. Don't expect great results with the retail OEM cooler, it won't cut it for overclocking a lot.

"When there's a will, there's a way."

 

[svol]

Maybe it would be handy if you unlcok your CPU (if it isn't already done). That way you can run the FSB on his max, without OC'ing the CPU so high that you need very good cooling.

<b>THGC:</b> before: :frown: 😱 , after: 😎 .