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Humungor   06-11-2003 at 07:05:18 PM

I recently bought a used 2800+ barton from ebay. I was just wondering if increasing the base clock speed to 200 Mhz is possible with the proper cooling. I currently have a Thermaltake Volcano 7 heatsink and fan. My mobo is an Asus A7N8X, so I know that it can support the increase in base clock speed, but I'm not so sure about the processor. If it isn't possible to increase the base clock, how do I go about overclocking the barton? Help before I try something stupid! Thanks

P.S. Also, when I took the proc out of the box, i realized one of the pins was bent (on a corner) I bent it back into shape carefully, and it seemed to go in fine, but will there be any problems from this later on...? I only have a limited time to tell the seller it was bent to get a refund. Thanks again :)

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DjKlown   06-11-2003 at 07:11:37 PM
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Regarding the bent pin on the corner of your CPU- I dont think it will be a problem if there is not any noticable crease or crack on the pin it self. I highly doubt that you are going to be taking the Chip in and out of your socket. IF you do, do that then there will be a slight problem, because everytime you take it in and out of the socket that pin becomes very brittle and will eventually break off.

Regarding the overclocking: you can push that chip to the 200 FSB but do it in small increments and when you eventually get unstable just take it back a few notches. Also if possible try to have some low latency, higher speed memory, Pc3200 would be suitable for this application. Besides that, i am no guru in OC'ing(am learning though). Someone will come and help you out with your OC'ing adventure.

Mike

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Ryan_Plus_One   06-11-2003 at 07:17:08 PM
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Do not plan on being stable past 180 Mhz FSB unless you have the A7N8X revision 2.0. The northbridge on Asus motherboards below that will probably not make it to 200.

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Humungor   06-11-2003 at 07:21:21 PM
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No worries there, I have revision 2.0...I bought the mobo less than a month ago when I upgraded everything

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scottchen   06-12-2003 at 02:33:35 AM
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Well first of all, your CPU heatsink's not gonna do the job. Just please take this hint: Thermaltake SUCKS, their products sure looks good but the finishing is AWFUL. If you want to go for some serious overclocking, I would recommend the Swiftec MCX462+ with 80mm Tornado fan. That would cost a lot, if you want something cheap and very effective the Thermalright AX7 is what I got with Tornado fan it's running my 2500+ OC to 3200+ at only 37C idle and 46 load(1 hour sandra burn in).

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endyen   06-12-2003 at 03:30:10 AM
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Start out nice and easy. Put the multiplier to 11 and fsb at 200. For that the fan you have is fine. Play around, use a burnin and a benchie to make sure you're stable.Have fun.

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