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whatsmydingo

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I have a Athlon XP 2700+ on a KT400 Dragon Ultra, and it's speed only is 2200. I'm told that it should reach 2700, but when I went into BIOS to chance the cpu frequency the computer stalled and wouldn't boot up and I had to reset the cmos. right now cpu frequency is at 166mhz and I'm wondering if there's a way to get the last 500mhz from my proc?
 
If the CPU frequency is 166MHz and your RAM frequency is 166MHz, that might be the problem. Your RAM may be running at its maximum speed already and is unable to work any faster. I'm not saying get more RAM based on this guess but thats all i can think of.
 
That mobo has a VIA chipset so I am guessing with the kt400 ur AGP and PCI is not locked... So u may not get past maybe 185 FSB....
 
whatsmydingo said:
I have a Athlon XP 2700+ on a KT400 Dragon Ultra, and it's speed only is 2200. I'm told that it should reach 2700, but when I went into BIOS to chance the cpu frequency the computer stalled and wouldn't boot up and I had to reset the cmos. right now cpu frequency is at 166mhz and I'm wondering if there's a way to get the last 500mhz from my proc?
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ok. do you know the basics of overclocking? (just wondering cuz u might not understand what im gonna say.) first did you up the voltage of the CPU and ram ? what ratios is your CPU/RAM? and what voltage is your northbridge?.if you want to overclock you have to set ALL these voltages correctly or your going to have a non-booting computer and have to clear CMOS. your 2700 CPU is capable of running 200+fsb so running anything less shouldnt have ANY problems unless your mobo isnt capable of it. the soyo boards are definetly not going to get you up to 2.7ghz (i had one with a 2400 and i could not get over a 200mhx overclock with it) so im almost sure that its your mobo hold ing you back. however you can hope to reach 2.2-2,4ghz if your hardware accepts it. your board MUST be able tu run 400mhz fsb though if you want that kind of speed.
 
I have a Athlon XP 2700+ on a KT400 Dragon Ultra, and it's speed only is 2200. I'm told that it should reach 2700,
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You were told wrong. The XP2700 runs at approximately around 2.2Ghz (probably closer to 1.9Ghz-2.0Ghz considering the XP3200 runs at 2.2Ghz).

right now cpu frequency is at 166mhz
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That's the correct frequency. 166Mhz core speed = 333Mhz FSB speed and that roughly translates to 1.9-2.0Ghz

if there's a way to get the last 500mhz from my proc?
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Short of some fancy cooling you wont be able to get a Barton2700 or TBredB2700 to run at 2.7Ghz. You arent "missing" any Hz anywhere.

If the CPU frequency is 166MHz and your RAM frequency is 166MHz, that might be the problem. Your RAM may be running at its maximum speed already and is unable to work any faster.
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Pop some heatspreaders/active cooling on the memory and you might be able to get away with pumping the memory to PC3200 :)


That mobo has a VIA chipset so I am guessing with the kt400 ur AGP and PCI is not locked... So u may not get past maybe 185 FSB....
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In either case the KT400 isnt very OC friendly, my A7V8X-X didnt give me much room for OCing... the nF2 series of chipsets is the choice for A32 OCing. :)
 
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In either case the KT400 isnt very OC friendly, my A7V8X-X didnt give me much room for OCing... the nF2 series of chipsets is the choice for A32 OCing. :)
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very true. the VIA chipsets do not overclock half as well as the NF2/nf2 ultra mobos. i couldnt get 100mhz outta my soyo KT333 mobo back in the day...it just couldn't overclock. 600mhz outta an abit nf7-s thouhg aint that bad. only reason cant go more is heat issue...and i cnat afford watercooling or anything fancy like thta.
 
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True but the KT400 is a tad more "lenient" than the venerable KT333. :)
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yeah i dumped Via chipsets after that board and went to nf2. i almost went intel but decided i could use the money i saved going AMD for a nicer HD and case. glad i did too.
 
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In either case the KT400 isnt very OC friendly, my A7V8X-X didnt give me much room for OCing... the nF2 series of chipsets is the choice for A32 OCing. :)
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Im running the same MB A7V8X-X with an AMD 2600 Barton Core overclocked at 2107MHz. Temperatures are great..39cCPU MB 33. Its been running like this for 6 months and no problem.
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Im running the same MB A7V8X-X with an AMD 2600 Barton Core overclocked at 2107MHz. Temperatures are great..39cCPU MB 33. Its been running like this for 6 months and no problem.
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I would hardly consider a 190MHz substantial. When i said "didnt give me much room for OCing" i meant "i was limited to a 600MHz OC" .. take the same setup that i had (XP2500, AXDA2500DKV4D) and the cap was in the 800Mhz ballpark.
 
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