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More info?)
Not wanting to be difficult, but I have an XP2400 week 49 03 that is
unlocked and can do 23 x 100 or 17 x 166 (don't have a newer board) I think
the perpetuation of locked procs started with everyone discovering the
bartons were locked at 39 03 and we then broad brushed the complete line.
Regards,
Garry
"BigBadger" <big_badger@NOSPAM.com> wrote in message
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> Depends on your setup. If your CPU was made before week 39 2003 you will
> be
> able to go into the bios and select a higher multiplier. The default for
> the
> XP2400+ is 15x, so you could try 15.5 or 16. Each 0.5 increase in
> multiplier
> will wield a 66MHz increase in clock speed.
> If the CPU is newer then changing the multiplier won't work because the
> CPU
> is 'locked'. You can still overclock but you need to do it by increasing
> the
> Front Side Bus (FSB) speed. Again go into the bios, the standard FSB is
> 133MHz (266DDR) increase it in small steps, a 10MHz increase will give a
> 150MHz increase in clock speed. When you increase the FSB you also make
> the
> memory run faster...this can be both good and bad; good because it gives
> better memory performance, bad because the memory may become unstable at
> the
> higher speed. You can also overclock the FSB from windows using some thing
> like NVsystemutility or Clockgen.
> How far you can go depends on many things such as the quality of your CPU,
> how good your cooling is and the performance of your memory. To get a few
> more MHz out of the chip you can increase the core voltage, 1.65V is
> default, 1.75 is a safe place to work at...However when increasing voltage
> keep an eye on your cpu temperature.
> To test if the system is stable at the new overclocked speed try running
> Prime95 torture test. any errors in prime means you have gone to far or
> you
> need some more volts.
>
>
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> "Tony Power" <big.tiggs1@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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>> so how do i go about getting it to go to 2.2 ghz ?
>>
>> "zmike6" <zmike6@*SPAMBLOCK*yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:nmagb05ahbvn2urhok4sjteaua0jml05sp@4ax.com...
>> > If it's a regular desktop XP 2400+ then I bet you could squeeze 2.2 -
>> > 2.3 ghz out of it, with good air cooling. But I think 2.5 - 2.8 ghz
>> > would be out of the question for a desktop 2400+, unless an extreme
>> > cooling setup was used.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sat, 29 May 2004 05:13:02 GMT, "Tony Power"
>> > <big.tiggs1@bigpond.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > >I am running an AMD athlon xp 2400+ at 2 GHz on an ASUSTek a7n8x-x
>> mainboard
>> > >but have been told i can get it up to 2.5 - 2.8 GHz is this true and
>> > >if
>> so
>> > >how do i go about it?
>> > >
>> >
>>
>>
>
>
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