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All you folks who would like to overclock and don't have a clue as where to begin:
Begin by reading this...it's one of the better articles I've seen.
http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Guides/OCguide/
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Kinda funny; of the current first 7 posts, 4 are asking "how do I" question. I wonder if any of them noticed this?
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I doubt it Skip, its easier to ask, none of these n00bs want to learn how to do it, they just expect someone to tell them how to do it.
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Good article. Overclockers.com has a similar guide. The only problem is, people (like me) who don't own the latest chipsets, like nvidea and such, that dont have the resources in the bios for locking the pci, have to resort to other methods, like jumping bridges on Amd duron / athalon cpu's and hoping you don't fry something in the process. I am planning on buying a NF7 this weekend, but my 1300 duron @ 1390 will stay on my k7t
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I'm waiting for my K7T Turbo2 to get back from MSI. My Duron will only run at 1365 on the KM2M Combo-L but just flies at 1390 on the Turbo2. It's a very fast sdram board thats waiting for a tbred b to come calling.
I've done the pencil tricks and wire tricks too but you gotta remember we may have pc's nearly as old as the author of that short article. He still did a pretty good job and it may get some reads because it's not a long boring article. Like the show me posters here, most just want instant results without being bored with the little things like knowing what is happening.
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I am very interested in learning how to overclock, just for the experience. I have read the above mentioned article and am having a problem relating the bios of the example to my mobo's bois. http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.html?i=1872&p=4 a picture of my bios can be found on this page. I have a barton 2600+, geil ultra duel channel 3200 512, a cpu fan that supports up to barton 3200+. Would you mind helping me?
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We can try. You have a Barton 2600+ that is intended to run at 166Mhz X 11.5 or 1917Mhz. Your memory is designed to run at 200Mhz. You have a pretty good motherboard.
On the second screen in your link you should see:
FSB Frequency [166]
DDR:CPU Ratio [Auto]The fifth screen should show:
CPU Speed Detected 1917 (or close)
CPU Clock Ratio [11.5]
CPU Voltage (Volt) [1.650]From the results obtained in the review, you may be able to just set the
FSB Frequency [200]
and at 200Mhz X 11.5 = 2300 you now have a XP3400+.
Assuming this worked you'd now test for stability with a burn-in utility and/or demanding new game.
If you don't want to make a big jump from 166 to 200 Mhz you can just bump it up a few Mhz at a time.
The above settings syncronize the processor and memory at 200Mhz and looks to be just a one touch overclock and a good place to stop. Watch cpu and motherboard temps thru all this. Speed=heat, but at these settings you should see a good increase of the former with little increase of the latter.
Get your motherboard manual out, read it cover to cover, understand how to reset your bios to defaults in case the rig locks up, and give it a try.
Let us know how it turns out.
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