overclock help athlon xp2200

technocat

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I am currently looking at clocking my existing system, is it worth doing and can it be tweaked.Any help would be much appreciated.
My system is
ATHLON XP 2200 13.5 x 133.33 MHZ = 1800 MHZ
MSI KT4 ULTRA MOBO memory clock 166MHZ
512MB MEMORY PC2700
V CORE 1.60V

Is it possible to increase FSB and memory speed.
 

juuzo

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id say get some better(faster) ram. some 512mb ddr400 will do geat.
But if you are broke.. then just increase fsb by little and run superpi 1M/8M.
If its stable, then increase some more fsb. when it crashes. lower fsb some.
 

technocat

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Hi Juzzo,
Thanks for that info will try adjusting FSB i am building a new system so was trying to get something extra out of my current system.

Thanks
 

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msi has utilities for overclocking - you can download from them. It automatically finds the max OC speed for you then you can back off a little. I would suggest blowing an dust out of the CPU heatsink before you start to keep temps as low as possible.
 

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Depends on which 2200 chip you have. The early "A" versions didn't overclock worth a hoot. Later AMD improved the 2200 chip, the "B" version and it would overclock somewhere around 2.1 GHz.