overclocking athlon 2600+

Dean11

Dean11

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hi im trying to overclock my amd athlon xp 2600+, the multipliers are locked on 11.5x i tried raising the fsb from 166 mhz and gradually went up to 176mhz but it blue screens when starting windows. ive read that people have got this cpu up to 2100 mhz (currently 1917mhz) using the fsb. I have a 1gb pc 3200 and a 512 aria pc 2700 ram together.
 
You have the wrong Socket A model for that there. The Barton cored XP2500+ was the big ocer of the older Atholon line. The 2600+ upto the 3200+ had locked multipliers for the most part. Yet when an XP3200+ overheated and backclocked here it was then seen as a 2500+? That shows the low enders oc better being cast on the same cpu die.

The mismatch of memory will hurt you as well. Remove the 512 of PC2700 and run the pair of PC3200 512s in dual channel mode along with lowering the 166 down to bring the cpu multiplier up. If you raise the fsb lower the cpu multiplier. The tip is to lower everything down first and then raise one thing as far as it can go and be stable. Then you start rasing the other or bring that up first in the reverse order.
 
Locked in a forward while lowering allows for raising the memory clock to oc the memory. The 3200+s were the same way seeing 2.31ghz as the max. Yet the 2500+ passed that reaching the 3400+'s clock speed. That was one model without a locked multiplier.

I upgraded from the 2600+ to the 3000+ then 3200+ in a short period of time here not leaving too much for ocing it. The 3200+ got some attention later for this. The older Semprons were also noted for being unlocked. Another to thing to look at is the board too. Some boards will hold you back just as well as the model cpu.
 
You would be better off with an Intel cpu as they do not produce as much heat as the Amd range. Also your computer heats up your entire room as it is therefore i do not think it is safe to Overclock but hey its your choice on that one.
 
Hsv_Man said:
You would be better off with an Intel cpu as they do not produce as much heat as the Amd range. Also your computer heats up your entire room as it is therefore i do not think it is safe to Overclock but hey its your choice on that one.
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hmmmmmmmmmmmmm :rolleyes:
 
AMDs have always been known to run cooler then Intels. Look at how Intel had to address the heat factor seen with the P4s! Ocing any cpu can see temps climb since you are placing a stress on the hardware itself. The newer models out are simply more oc friendly then past socket types.

You'll also note that boards are also designed anticipating ocing with the features there. The one thing to note when going to oc is having adequate cooling inplace. The Socket As and other older models would get hot with just the stock hsf installed. Many go as far as water coolers for ocing video cards as well as cpus.
 
Hsv_Man said:
You would be better off with an Intel cpu as they do not produce as much heat as the Amd range. Also your computer heats up your entire room as it is therefore i do not think it is safe to Overclock but hey its your choice on that one.
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AMD processors, technically, are better than Intel processors. AMD processors last longer and produce less heat than Intel processors. Intel processors may have that little more speed but I watched a video on YouTube about leaving two computers on for 18 days playing a game. One computer was Intel and the other was AMD. During those 18 days, I think they had to replace the motherboard and processor for the Intel computer around 5-6 times. The AMD motherboard and processor did not need replacing.
 
At stock speeds that's no surprise there. When ocing however any older cpu will get hot! This is why large 3rd party cpu coolers and even water cooling setups are popular. With the P4s running hot at stock speeds Intel had to focus on keeping the newer Core 2 Duos and Extreme models cooler with the new energy saving feature seen in those.
 
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