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Over clocking an AMD 2900+
Name: pball Date: September 19, 2008 at 21:07:13 Pacific OS: XP Pro CPU/Ram: 2.0 ghz 1 gig Product: home made
Comment:
Hello, I would like try to squeeze some more power out of my older computer. I have an AMD 2900+ 2.0 ghz, 2x512 mb DDR 400, running in a ECS KM400A-M2 motherboard.
I sorta understand the basics of over clocking but would like some help to start out.
So if anyone has some good starter tips to get me started I would appreciate that.
Name: jam Date: September 19, 2008 at 22:54:55 Pacific
Reply:
I don't think your board is overclockable, you may have to try the software approach.
"If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions" - Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) in Pulp Fiction
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Response Number 2
Name: pball Date: September 20, 2008 at 11:23:38 Pacific
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dang that might suck, any programs or what ever for software overclock. That is something I know nothing about.
If nothing works out I'm fine since this just a backup computer. I'd like to get enough to 720 hd playback though.
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Response Number 3
Name: SkipCox Date: September 20, 2008 at 13:24:51 Pacific
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Regardless of how you try to do it, I don't think you'll even reach a stable 2100Mhz.
You will not see a performance increase. A benchmarking utility will see a small performance increase. Very unlikely that any application that would not run before the OC will run after. Also likely that some applications that did run before the OC will not run after.
That chipset just won't do what you or I would like it to do.
Skip
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Response Number 4
Name: pball Date: September 20, 2008 at 16:23:51 Pacific
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well i kinda figured i couldn't do much, I just wanted to get more use out of this second computer. thanks guys.
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Response Number 5
Name: UpAndComing Date: September 22, 2008 at 15:58:33 Pacific
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you could probably drop $30 or so on another gig of ram, that would get you more of a performance boost than OCing your CPU would have.
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Response Number 6
Name: larryf215 Date: September 23, 2008 at 11:39:56 Pacific
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Video: Integrated S3 Unichrome 2D/3D Graphics Your board has a agp slot. are you using it?
larry
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Response Number 7
Name: pball Date: September 23, 2008 at 16:31:56 Pacific
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