I bought a new m/b and sempron chip yesterday, which by the way is showing as an athlon 64 in astra32. The m/b came with an overclocking facility (warpspeed) that increases the CPU clock. The multiplier is set at 8 and im wanting to try get it upto 10. Does anyone have any advice on how to do this? I have no idea where to start. Living on a steady diet of....soda pop and ritalin

By the way my motherboard is a Biostar K8VGA-M Living on a steady diet of....soda pop and ritalin

Geez, you just built the darn thing...take some time to familiarize yourself with it & work the kinks out 1st. BTW, overclocking by raising the multiplier is not the way it's done... ASUS A7N8X-X Athlon XP 1800+ 8.5 x 200MHz 1024MB PC3200 2.5-3-3-7 Asus A9550GE/TD 128MB WinME/WinXP Pro SP2

I know I just bought it, but I see no difference between this and my o/c athlon xp that ran at same speed. I know I need xp64 and 64 bit apps. But I chose this processor as I was told it was good for o/c. I know multiplyer isnt the way, but it seems I cant raise the cpu clock higher than 210. Living on a steady diet of....soda pop and ritalin

The advantage of AMDs 64-bit CPUs is the memory controller that's integrated into the CPU. The disadvantage to the Sempron/Sempron64 is that many of them have a small L2 cache of 128k. The Athlon XP had either 256k (Palomino or Tbred) or 512k (Barton). You actually bought the wrong CPU...the 2500+ & 2800+ both have 256k L2. You also bought a weak motherboard...you should have gotten one based on the nForce3 250 chipset. Hopefully you're not using the crappy onboard graphics? ASUS A7N8X-X Athlon XP 1800+ 8.5 x 200MHz 1024MB PC3200 2.5-3-3-7 Asus A9550GE/TD 128MB WinME/WinXP Pro SP2

I know now about the motherboard. I read an article my friend in USA found that he scanned for me about o/c it to 2.5ghz. The chip will run at 300 cpu clock speed but only on a m/b based on the nForce3 250 chipset, stupid thing is it only costs £7/$13 more than the one I have. I am not stupid enough to use onboard graphics, it eats into your cpu and ram. I am looking at getting the m/b I need and a pci express card. I think I have learnt my lesson with regards to being a cheap ass. I actually reinstalled xp on the machine in question, which I should of done originally, I was just too lazy. I am running sims 2 on full spec graphics just without the smoothing. It also loads in 4 seconds flat. On this machine it takes about 50 seconds to load and runs on mid graphic settings. As always, thanks for the help Jam. I know I seem stupid, but honestly I try my best. Living on a steady diet of....soda pop and ritalin

I don't think there are any S754 boards that support PCI-express ASUS A7N8X-X Athlon XP 1800+ 8.5 x 200MHz 1024MB PC3200 2.5-3-3-7 Asus A9550GE/TD 128MB WinME/WinXP Pro SP2