Overclocking my Sempron 2800+

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faseman7

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Can i overclock my Sempron 2800+ to up it from 2.0ghz to 2.4ghz? If so can you tell me how. Here is my PC components. Thanks for your time.

Computer:
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
OS Service Pack Service Pack 3
DirectX 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c)
Computer Name
User Name

Motherboard:
CPU Type Unknown, 2000 MHz (12 x 167) 2800+
Motherboard Name Asus A7V8X-LA (Kelut) (3 PCI, 1 AGP, 2 DDR DIMM, Audio, Video, LAN, IEEE-1394)
Motherboard Chipset VIA VT8378A UniChrome KM400A
System Memory 1024 MB (PC3200 DDR SDRAM)
BIOS Type Award (09/02/04)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM1)
Communication Port ECP Printer Port (LPT1)

Display:
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS (256 MB)
Monitor Plug and Play Monitor [NoDB]

Multimedia:
Audio Adapter VIA AC'97 Enhanced Audio Controller

Storage:
IDE Controller Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller
IDE Controller VIA Bus Master IDE Controller
SCSI/RAID Controller MagicISO SCSI Host Controller
Floppy Drive Floppy disk drive
Disk Drive Hitachi HDT725032VLAT80 (298 GB, IDE)
Optical Drive HL-DT-ST DVDRRW GWA-4083B (DVD+RW:8x/4x, DVD-RW:4x/2x, DVD-ROM:12x, CD:24x/16x/32x DVD+RW/DVD-RW)
Optical Drive IDE-DVD ROM 6116
Optical Drive MagicISO Virtual DVD-ROM0000
SMART Hard Disks Status OK

Partitions:
F: (NTFS) 305234 MB (66411 MB free)
 
Asus A7V8X-LA is a socket A board and quiet old, i dont think you will gain anything by o/cing such an old machine in fact i think you will probably do more harm than good without any benefits to running todays software(better to build a whole new pc), but if you must o/c go into bois
Your CPU is probably multiplier locked so you're left having to overclock via the FSB. Set the Ram to run in sync(if poss in bios) with the CPU (thus 166mhz) & then raise the FSB A FEW MHz at a time. Everytime you do so, use the system, run a few intensive benchmarks to see if it's stable. If yes & you feel like going further, start raising the FSB again.

If the system fails to post or is not stable, you can try raising the CPU voltage (if the motherboard provides that option). If that still doesn't get it to run stable, go back to the last know stable speed & leave it at that.

Always make sure to keep a close eye on your CPU temps & other components such as the northbridge for example.
 
Probably wasting your time. As far as I can remember the VIA KM400 didnt have the PCI bus locked. If you raise the FSB up much the PCI/AGP bus will go nuts.
 
I take it you have an HP Pavilion desktop,I have that exact same mobo and processor sitting in my attic :D

Your out of luck,That mobo features no overclocking options and even software based apps such as Clockgen do not work.

Really not worth it anyway on such an old system. :)
 
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