Overclocking a Baron 2500+

[WellCookedFetus]

I am planning to upgrade but I came upon a strange thing, many motherboard that I have been eyeing don't have a bios option to set the clock frq. so how would I overclock it?

 

[Bills22]

I over clocked mine by setting the multiplier to 12, and left the freq at 166. Got a little over 2.0GHz out of it.


Thanks,
Bill

 

[WellCookedFetus]

how do you set the multiplier if there is no bios setting to do it?

 

[jmecor]

how come it doesn't have any bios settings, what motherboard are you using?

 

[WellCookedFetus]

I was looking at a chinatech nforce 2 as well as a leadtech nforce 2, both have no bios options for the CPU multiplier.

 

[FDTzeng]

My ASUS A7N8X lets me choose multipliers 12.5 and below. Its my understanding that the one of the ABIT NForce2 mobos allows higher ones too. Check those out

Athlon XP 2500+ @ 2225MHz (12.5x178 @1.850v), Volcano 7 w/Smart Fan2, A7N8X Standard Rev. 1.06, Kingston HyperX PC3000 512MB @177MHz, Radeon 9700Pro, SB Live 5.1

 

[svol]

Well you can do pin modifications... but if you want a cheap and very good OC board search for Epox boards.

I love my Delta 60HP 7000 RPM fan that puts out more dB then CFM

 

[scottchen]

Read your mobo manual, there should be switch for multiplier, normally it's near the CPU socket. Abit, and Gigabyte, unlocks the multiplier settings, so u can go really high. However increasing FSB will get you more performance than increasing the multiplier. Right now i'm at 12* 215FSB.

I hate Computers!

 

[WellCookedFetus]

I'm now looking at a Epox EP-8RDA, it has bios controled multiplier.
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.asp?description=13-123-192

 

[OliverNo1_1]

I use the Soltek 75FRN(NForce 2), it automatically unlocks all multiplier settings(please dont flame me-it DOES)-all settings are available in the BIOS-plus a nice price\software package.

One to consider buddy.

PS. IF anyone wants screen shots etc of the 13x Multiplier then mail me-i will be happy to prove myself not to be lying.

 

[pIII_Man]

ya don't have to be defensive...i beleive ya oliver

Overclocking through multiplyer yeilds very little compared to the same overclock via fsb...i am surprised that any nforce 2 board would not have at least some overclocking options at any rate i like the epox boards they only have the stuff you need no other $hit therefore you don't have to pay extra for things most users don't even need.

 

[OliverNo1_1]

Dip switch's i believe -although i think i am correct in saying that at least 90% of boards the multiplier can be changed through the bios?

If your board dosent allow you to do this its probably time to change boards-one will give better scope for O'Clocking.

As p3 said Epox are well respected, Asus Abit etc etc.

Surely doing things through the bios is much simpler-i for one wouldnt want to be cracking open my case every 5 mins to try a new setting.........

 

[OliverNo1_1]

Agreed regarding the FSB issue-2175 with high FSB in my system beats the hell out of 2200 with high multiplier-in my system.

Especially bearing in mind i have PC3200 memory-which im not utilising at all with a low FSB.

 

[WellCookedFetus]

I have now decided on a this mother board: http://web.epox.com/html/motherboard.asp?product=EP-8RDAplus&lang=1
I can get it for $83 off newegg which I think is a killer deal... any thing wrong with this board?

 

[OliverNo1_1]

Looks like a good choice-now get a Barton 2500 and attempt to ring the living daylights out of it

 

[WellCookedFetus]

Should I consider this for the CPU fan?
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.asp?description=35-106-005

 

[OliverNo1_1]

A big fan of Globalwin personally-but yes this HSF looks just fine(Copper base-High speed fan etc)

 

[WellCookedFetus]

thx then, ok thats it I'm off to buy!

 

[OliverNo1_1]

Bang for Buck the XP2500 and Nforce 2 combo is the clear winner at the moment(bearing in mind most will OC to XP2800 speeds easily).

They have lost the perfrmance crown(and by a large margin) but the BFB crown is certainly with this combo.

ANyhows-good luck, nice system.

 

[pIII_Man]

you should be able to get a 2.1-2.5ghz overclock with decent air cooling on that board

 

[OliverNo1_1]

With my set-up(and ive tried 2x Barton 2500's) i can get 2150 with rock solid stability. The FSB dosent want to go above around 175 but then again you are talking about a £70 chip so i cant grumble.

I firmly believe that although i can select FSB's up to 220(in 1MHZ increments) the Mobo is the limiting FSB factor(Only supports the 333FSB-Officially)

So perhaps with an Nforce Ultra i may get more-and then theres always water cooling........

 

[scottchen]

I tried 220mhz FSB on my A7N8X, didn't work, but 219 worked well. By the way I didn't know Soltek unlocked the multipliers, I know Gigabyte and Abit did. Oliver how high can your multiplier go? I had a Gigabyte ga7v8xp and i could reach 17* multiplier.

I hate Computers!