AMD Athlon XP Highest Overclock

What is the highest Overclock that anyone has gotten with thier Athlon XP? I have not tried too hard, but I got my 2500+ to 2.266Ghz on stock cooling, stable.

Also, how would a highly overclocked Athlon XP compare to an Athlon 64 (single core)?

he was talking about athlon xp... i think the stock speed for a 3200 is higher than ur overclock... thats a decent oc though, 266 mhz?

I have an Athlon XP 3200+ and the default speed is 2200mhz at 400mhz bus. i have a mobo that's really bad for overclocking but i bumped the base frequency (200mhz) up to 209 and got 2300 (wierd thing is it already seemed as though by default it was reading 2230 without overclocking it) I'm on an Abit board that's not really for overclocking, and since I got some USB errors, I just bumped it back down to default speeds.

now i'm an amateur, so I'd still like to see what a real overclocker has to say about the Athlon XP chips.

The stock 2500+ runs at 1.87ghz, so I achieved about a 350mhz OC. I think it can scale far higher, but I need a better CPU cooler, and maybe a northbridge cooler also.

At my current overclock, My Barton based 2500+ is running at about 44 degrees celcius. Under load, it gets up to about 48 sometimes.

well the 2600+ barton and the 2500+ barton are teh same baring teh 2600+ is 11.5 not x11 on the multiplier, Ive had 2.4 gig stable and 2.5gig posting and booting but not stable.

On the 2600+ and with teh xtr vols temps went to about 55-57 load

Highest XP overclock is at 3.5 Ghz
Liquid Nitrogen cooling

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forum [...] hp?t=59753

I got 300 mhz on air.

What's the best heatsink for an Athlon XP? How about for a Northbridge?

I know a lot of people who have these processors, and are too poor to buy a new motherboard, power supply, video card, CPU, and soon new ram. Which is why I was wondering about squeezing out every last bit of performance on what I have.

I had my Mobile Barton 2500+ running full load 24/7 @ 2.6GHz on entry level watercooling (80mm rad and a weak aquarium pump), that CPU loved voltage, had to shove 2V through it.

I even did some benches at 2775MHz on 2.15V by adding a submersible pump and a bucket of water and ice cubes to my loop. Needless to say, the ice melted a lot faster than I tought it would.

This CPU is still alive and doing fine, I donated it to my dad along with my NF7-S mobo and some memory, it's now running at a cozy 2.1GHz on air.

I'm seeing some impressive results here... makes me whish I had the same luck with my barton 2600+. I've had it it running at 2.07 Ghz (11.5x180) with Corsair memory, but not very stable sadly enough. Could be that it's not cooling good enough (~59C idle, 65 load) but most likely it's the mobo that sucks too bad. Unfortunately, QDI does not seem to be a very popular brand among enthusiasts, much because of the quality of their products I imagine. But it looks promising.. I'm thinking maybe my Athlon XP has yet some more to give. And besides, it's good to know AGP is not entirely dead as Gainward just released their monstrous 7800GS+ which is supposed to be a devilish 7800 GTX in disguise!

Perhaps I could endure waiting for Conroe... after all, s939 is still to pricey for me anyways.

I think I am going to try to unlock my 2500+ by connecting the L5 bridges. Right now I think I am being limited by my motherboard, an Asus A7v600-X. Speaking of, what is the best motherboard for overclocking? It may be a nice and cheap upgrade to squeeze the last of the power out of this current system.

The Abit NF7-S V2 (not the NF7-S2) was an insanely popular OCing board back in the late Socket A days.

I had an Athlon XP 2600+ (Barton) 1,65 V, 1919 MHz stock. I hit a wall with ther motherboard (Asus A7N8X-E) at 1,85 V and 2557 MHz. The performance was great, I think that it was actualy way better than my Athlon 64 3000+ stock (1.8 GHz). I used a ThermalTake Volcano 12. It´s surely loud, but it cools it like a champion.
Of course, with higher clocks models I don´t know what could happen... surely mi Venice at 2500 MHz is faster.

Ebay, but a good nforce2 board still cost around $40. I just sold a MSI delta
that didn't boot as-is for $24, I couldn't believe it. It seems 2.4 was the average OC for the burton core on air.
Not to change the subject, but I'm I the only one who wants to see the burtons on a 65nm die with 1mb cash and updated extensions? Some tweaks to the core and it would be a nice 32bit chip. Intle went back to the p3s for there new chips after all. Just the clock increase would be something.

My XP 2800+ Barton will OC to 2.75 on air, but not very stable at all. It's stable at 2.55, but runs really hot (83c, yikes!!) 2.24 is about my sweet spot, totally stable at 53c under load.

here's a webside that has good overclockings

http://www.amdgeeks.net/overclockdatabase

LET ME SEE *CHECKING ASUS PROBE* 35c!
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Is there attitude along with this? Because I was just trying to help.

LET ME SEE *CHECKING ASUS PROBE* 35c!
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Is there attitude along with this? Because I was just trying to help. No i just always wanted to do that well can you help me do you have any suggestions?

You said you were running an Asus board. Which one?

What are your CPU/RAM/Chipset voltages? Chipset probably isn't adjustable on your board, but I thought I'd ask anyway.

What brand/speed is your memory and what are you running the timings at?

I ran into issues OC my XP-M 2600 because I had nothing but cheap value ram, but I was still able to achieve 2.4 on air rather easily. If you have good RAM you might be able to achieve a decent OC but 2.6 is really pushing it for a chip that is already at the top of the Athlon XP charts.



Dan14, from what I've read that board supports virtually no OC abilities.

If you feel adventurous enough, you can try Sid's wire mod.

You're probably reaching the limits of that Value Ram. You could try getting a better quality RAM as well, but I don't think it's worth it. Your board just wasn't meant to overclock processors.

I have a 3000+ (barton) with 13x multi, and I can run at a FSB of 186, 2418MHz, but as soon as I hit 187FSB then i currupt the OS. Will take that off stock volt, and overvolted, even if i slacken off the RAM timings, and put the RAM at 1:1 to CPU.

One day soon I will Ghost my drive, and play some more, but i got pissed off with having to reinstall XP, not that it didnt need it mind. at 186*13 its cold as on stock heatsink and paste. If i can get the thing to run at ~200Mhz on the FSB then I will upgrade the HFS, and get AS5 on it.

Motherboard Asus A7V800 (Nasty VIA chipset)
2*512Mb DDR Crucial Midrange RAM.

Dude i am going to oc it now.

From the forum in my sig

235x11.5 @2.7 ghz
http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=81301

Stone_age later identified the chip as a 2800+barton I believe

252x10. Take it your on about the highest FSB not total speed there? If so then there aint a chance in hell, but if your on about the highest GHz then I may have to try and challlenge that.

Can the multi's be lowered on a 3000+ Barton, or is it locked at 13x, and thats all it will give?