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I've got an AMD 2500+ and oc'd it to a 3200+ with a coolmaster fan. It really was easy; all I had to do was increase the fsb from 333 to 400. Of course, at first, I did lower my multipier just to be safe. I've been running this stable for about 6 months now.
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#17 Posted 16 July 2004 - 05:30 PM
you get any performance benefits from tricking your 9800 into thinking it's an XT? breaks my heart to think of it trying to hang out with the other XT's and getting laughed at and shunned.
#21 Posted 16 July 2004 - 05:44 PM
watercoolers are pretty handy for overclockin, and when the Coolermaster aquagate comes out it should provide an affordable way of watercooling.
#22 Posted 16 July 2004 - 06:11 PM
oReo, on Jul 15 2004, 07:43 AM, said:
how far would you say i could go with a 2.8ghz 800fsb prescott chip w/ 1mb of LV2 cache?.. could i overclock the cache to say 1.4mb? or it that impossible???
You can't increase the cache by overclocking it. Overclocking affects the speed. Not the physical size of things.
Overclocking basically consists of raising the processor speed and the ram speed.
Your processor speed is determined by the Front Side Bus x the multiplier. (In my case for my Barton 2600+ my stock settings are 166x11.5)
On an unlocked CPU you can change the mutiplier, and that changes the CPU speed and nothing else. If you raise the Front Side Bus, you are then raising how fast the RAM, CPU, and other things can communicate data. Alot of people like to raise the FSB and lower the multiplier to get the same clockspeed as their stock settings, but the RAM runs much faster that way. (IE: I could put my FSB at 200x9.5 and still have the same clockspeed as stock settings (1.9ghz) but my ram would run at full speed now. (I have OCZ PC3200 RAM))
Anyway, download Motherboard Monitor 5 from here: http://downloads.gur...oad.php?det=204
Install it and make sure you follow all the instructions. Post your CPU temperature here and yeah. If it's above 50C you probably will want a new heatsink/fan before trying to OC. If around 40C, your pretty good. If around 30C, your perfect.