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How do i overclock an AMD XP 2000+
Name: pure_jax Date: December 19, 2002 at 12:19:56 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: 256ddr pc 2100
Comment:
How do i overclock an amd xp 2000+? i don't know much about overclocking however i have a thermalright AX-7 heatsink with a delta screamer fan! i have a ECS K7S5A motherboard can anyone help?
Name: MootLogic Date: December 19, 2002 at 18:18:43 Pacific
Reply:
Unfortunately there is not an easy way to overclock an ECS K7S5A. I have owned one and there are really no options in the BIOS. :/
There are some rogue BIOSs out there for download but I cannot reccomend them.
The only settings in the BIOS for FSB are 100 or 133 mhz.
There may have been a recent BIOS update provided by ECS nut I doubt it.
This was my personal experience, and someone may know how to overclock the FSB with 3rd party software.
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Response Number 2
Name: 666 Date: December 20, 2002 at 06:10:04 Pacific
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you can get a modded bios from www.ocworkbench.com/ecs . They are stable and allow you to change your bus speed. I was running one from last April until I sold my k7s5a a few weeks ago. Not 1 lockup even when overclocking
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