Will my AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200B Overclock?

[blackstar26]

Hi all
My computer by today's standards is quite old now, so I was hoping if it was possible to overlock its CPU. I am a complete beginner to this so don't know if it is possible to do so.
My specs are;

Central Processor
CPU Name AMD Athlon(tm) Dual Core Processor 5200B
Code Name Model 11, Stepping 2
Manufacturer AuthenticAMD
Current Clock Speed 2700 Mhz
Max Clock Speed 2700 Mhz
Voltage 1.3V
External Clock 200 Mhz
Serial Number 178BFBFF00060FB2
CPU ID AMD64 Family 15 Model 107 Stepping 2
Socket Designation Socket AM2
L1 Cache 128 KB
L2 Cache 512 KB
Motherboard
Model 2A72
Manufacturer OEM_MB
Serial Number MS1C88R70104624
BIOS Name Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
BIOS Vendor Phoenix Technologies, LTD
SMBIOS Version 5.14
BIOS Date 20/06/2008
BIOS Features
PCI is supported Yes
Plug and Play is supported Yes
APM is supported Yes
BIOS is Upgradable (Flash) Yes
BIOS shadowing is allowed Yes
Boot from CD is supported Yes
Selectable Boot is supported Yes
BIOS ROM is socketed Yes
EDD (Enhanced Disk Drive) Specification is supported Yes
Int 13h - 5.25 / 360 KB Floppy Services are supported Yes
Int 13h - 5.25 /1.2MB Floppy Services are supported Yes
Int 13h - 3.5 / 720 KB Floppy Services are supported Yes
Int 13h - 3.5 / 2.88 MB Floppy Services are supported Yes
Int 5h, Print Screen Service is supported Yes
Int 9h, 8042 Keyboard services are supported Yes
Int 14h, Serial Services are supported Yes
Int 17h, printer services are supported Yes
Int 10h, CGA/Mono Video Services are supported Yes
ACPI supported Yes
USB Legacy is supported Yes
LS-120 boot is supported Yes
ATAPI ZIP Drive boot is supported Yes

(not sure how much of that is relevant sorry)
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

 

[firo40]

With your level of experiance overclocking is not a very good idea let alone using an am2 platform is not great for overclocking aswell. If you really wanted to your going to need a good after market cooler and your only going to be able to do a minor overclock with very little results.

 

[SteveH3671]

You can overclock but these CPUs have a locked multiplier which means that when you overclock the CPU you also overclock other system components and some of those may cause errors before the CPU.

If you want to try, you need to alter the external clock, the one that is currently 200 MHz by going into the BIOS. Bump it up slowly in small steps, like 2-4 MHz.

I O/C'd an X2-6000 and only reached 3.18 GHz from 3.00 GHz with no voltage change (done by a external clock increase from 200 to 212 MHz). If you increase the voltage you may get a little higher, but X2s don't overclock well, dunno how Brisbane CPUs compare to Windsors though. Tbh it is hardly worth it, an extra 5% or so.

 

[blackstar26]

Thank you for the advice, will probably leave it that 5% isn't going to be worth it.
Thanks