Overclocking Athlon XP 2500+ Barton

[Tabris]

I made a couple posts in the cooling forum, but I want to make sure to get some answers, so sorry for the crosspost but I want to reach everyone who goes to this section.

My current stats are

Athlon XP 2500+ Barton (Currently at stock speed/fsb)
Stock Heatsink and Fan
Asus A7V8X-X Motherboard
Kingston PC3200 512mb DDR400 Ram
Nvidia GeForce2 GTS
Western Digital 120gb 8mb buffer HDD
CD Burner, Floppy, Blue Neon Light
Stock 300W PSU
1 80mm Antec Blue LED Exhaust Fan

Now I want to overclock my processor to 200 FSB...and I need to know exactly what I need to do that

I plan to be adding

2 Vantec Stealth Fan SF8025L 80mm Quiet Case Fan for Intake (in the front)
1 Enermax Whisper EG465P-VE(FC) 450W power supply Dual Fan
OR
1 Antec Truepower 430W power supply Dual Fan
(which do you recommmend?)

Now I want to know whether this will be enough? and if so, what settings should I put in my BIOS for the OCing (like what voltage (1.75?)) and finally, which idle temperature should I be looking for? 45c? 50c?

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Tabris on 10/19/03 09:07 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[buiu]

tabris
try this
multiplier= 11x
fsb= 200mhz
memory= agressive mode
no changes in vcore
I have one a7n8x de luxe and this setting gave me
a 3200+ athlon.
Our chipset are the same.
Claudio
temperature 42 to 46c with a aero cooler.

 

[addiarmadar]

Could do the 200 with the stock cooler just may encounter some rare flukes. Anywho stick with the purecopper HS solutions like the ones from thermealright. Their HS could give you more than 200mhz on the clock but make sure you got good air flow to the HS on the northbridge but I would just remove it and put a copper orb on it.

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[TacoAvenger]

Hey I have a similar setup to what you have:

Athlon XP 2500+ Barton
Stock Heatsink and Fan
Asus A7V8X-X Motherboard
Generic (Spectek) PC2700 256mb DDR333 Ram
Nvidia GeForce2 GTS
Maxtor 30 GB 7200rpm HDD
CD Burner, Floppy, UV Neon Light
ATOP case, L&C 350W PSU
2x80mm rear exhaust, 80mm side exhaust, intake fan in empty 5 1/4 bay


I followed some advice I saw posted on here, and I went into my bios and changed my FSB to 200 and lowered my multiplier to 8. I incrementally raised the multiplier up to 10.5 which is where I have it now. vcore is still 1.6v stock. I can play Enemy Territory no problem.

I looked into Asus PCprobe and at this setting it shows that my CPU speed is 2100 Mhz. Is that reading correctly? How can my memory handle this?

windows control panel and PCprobe still shows it as 2500+ tho. I could actually set my multiplier to 11.0 with 200 FSB and run it at 2.2 GHz. At this setting it tends to freeze up when I play ET.

Any Thoughts?

 

[Fallen]

What are your memory timings? At cas 2.5 or 3.0, you can probably get away with that. If you are experiencing lockups at higher speeds, you might try a little more voltage; be prepared to deal with heat though. You might think about upgrading that power supply too. More is always better!

 

[scottchen]

remember you can't get 200FSB, because the VIA chipset doesn't lock the AGP/PCI frequency so your harddrive and other devices will start malfunctioning probably once you hit 185FSB.

-Intel PIV 2.6C @ 3.575G -Asus P4P800 -OCZ Copper 2x256 4000EL memory @ 275mhz 3-4-4-8 -Sapphire 9800np @ 432/760 -SB audigy -120G Maxtor Diamond Plus9 S-ATA150 hdd -450 Enermax PSU

 

[Fallen]

I suppose that I should've noticed the "V" in the motherboard name... [too early to think quickly]

 

[Tak]

I just finally got the guts to start experimenting with my XP 2500+ w/ Asus A7N8X-DX 2.0(bios 1.007) and here is what i did to get it OC'ed to an XP3200+.

CPU FSB to 200, multiplier at 11
Memory COnfiguration to Aggressive (resulting in 8-3-3-2.5)
And I had to change the vCore up from the default value to 1.725, otherwise, it wouldnt boot into WinXP properly.

Remember, when in doubt, even monkeys fall from trees sometimes.<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Tak on 10/28/03 12:17 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[Codinerx]

Yeah I wanted to save some money and needed a bunch of ide ports, so I bought the epox 8kra2+ with kt600 chipset. Although Sandra reports that my agp is running at 80mhz and my pci is running at 40mhz, i have had my 2500+ overclocked to 2300 mhz (200fsb 11.5 multi) with only a few crashes now and then. Interestingly enough, I only had to up the voltage to 1.70 when I went from an 11 to 11.5 multi. Great chips, those 2500s!

 

[scottchen]

Wusy you're from canada right? I could tell from the way you spelled Colour.

-Intel PIV 2.6C @ 3.575G -Asus P4P800 -OCZ Copper 2x256 4000EL memory @ 275mhz 3-4-4-8 -Sapphire 9800np @ 432/760 -SB audigy -120G Maxtor Diamond Plus9 S-ATA150 hdd -450 Enermax PSU

 

[scottchen]

Oh oops, then i guess PowerCOLOUR is just a spelling mistake, because Canada spelling's different than american so it's actually PowerColor, but some people here calls it PowerColour, just so they could be different from the American spelling, don't ask me why.

-Intel PIV 2.6C @ 3.575G -Asus P4P800 -OCZ Copper 2x256 4000EL memory @ 275mhz 3-4-4-8 -Sapphire 9800np @ 432/760 -SB audigy -120G Maxtor Diamond Plus9 S-ATA150 hdd -450 Enermax PSU

 

[speeduk]

We spell it colour over here (uk) too.

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