flamethrower205

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Ok, thx to allanon I have a working 700Mhz Athlon (for my bro's comp). Thing is I got an OCZ Gladiator 3 hsf and that sh!t looks kinda heavy and powerful (and keeps the cpu oced to 770 @ 29ºC under full load!). I'm wondering how far could these things go...initially the multiplier was set to 9 so it ran at 900Mhz for a bit but I downclocked it when I saw that. I have heard of 700Mhz P3's getting insane overclocks, how were the athlons? Right now it's at 800 (7x114)...think I can hit 1Ghz?

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phsstpok

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Dec 31, 2007
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Don't know. Back in the day 1100 Mhz was really good for an Athlon 700 thru 800 but we didn't have the heatsinks we do today.

I remember the OCZ Goliath was a good but noisy 60mm HSF. I don't think the Gladiator line was as good. Neither should compare to today's best heatsinks which use 80 mm and 92 mm fans.

I used a Duron 600 (same age as your Athlon 700) with an OCZ Monster II heatsink. It managed 1007 Mhz. It ran hot, 48-54 degrees, but survived a year and half at that speed. Recently I discovered that this very same Duron can handle 1112 Mhz using a better a heatsink but still not the best heatsink.

I'm guessing the max for your Athlon 700 is about 1200 mhz with the best HSF you can buy and perhaps 1050-1100 with what you have. However, I think you will need more than 1.85 volt Vcore to get much above 1000 Mhz. I needed 1.91 volt to reach 1007 Mhz and 2.15 volt to reach 1112.



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