Athlon Processors!! OverClocking..

[DGFoster]

Hi all,

I just upgraded my P3 933 Gateway system,I took out the motherboard and I added an ASUA A7A 266 Motherboard,and an Athlon 1600+ XP Processor and running Windows XP home edition.

With Nvidia GForce 2 Ultra,SB live sound card.

I never had an Athlon system,always Pentium.

I keep hearing about how easy it is to overclock the Athlon processor,I never have been a believer in doing this,but I have talked to many that have done this with remarkable results.

But never knew how to do it,is this a good thing or not,if so how is it done?

So far I am inpressed with this system,but I get a lot of error messages,saying program halted,what does this mean,is it the XP still being buggy,I have Millenium on this system and the XP is an update version,Im just wondering if I should reformat this harddrive again,but I just put it in brand new 65 gig HD.

Any comments would be appreciated...

 

[The patriot]

When I get a chance, I'll post some links. I'll be working all weekend, so I probibally wont get to it until next week. Sorry.

If you cant wait you can get them out of any search engine. Thats where I got them.

I have the Athlon too. I like it. Make sure you have beaucoup cooling. Heat is the big thing with the Athlon. They say 3-400 Mhz overclocked isnt a big problem. I remember reading something about doing it through the bios. Bus speed rings a bell. I'm very computer illiterate, so dont take my word for it.

Keep us posted on your BOMBED computer!

Eric

PS

 

[Bob Wagner]

BOMBs AWAY

http://www.sysopt.com/articles/athlonoc/



http://www.athlonoc.com/athlon4overclocking.php





http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/99q4/991113/

 

[DRR-24V]

Overclockers.com Is Tops !

Go Here and read the Begining O/C section. Great group with a good forum. Those guy's bomb Computers just like we do Dodges. I have run a Celeron 600 at 900 for 2 years, never a problem.



http://www.overclockers.com/

 

[illflem]

Yep, water cooled Athlons, next thing you know they'll have turbos...

 

[dmurdock]

also checkout amdmb.com ... you can find overclocking specifics for that asus motherboard



if you want to get serious, you can unlock the processor, tom's hardware has a video showing the procedure



www.tomshardware.com



i'm on a 366 o'clocked to 550 right now, and a couple athlons on the bench i'm planning on unlocking.....

 

[Doc Tinker]

My son is big on over-clocking and all I got to say is get additional cooling when doing it. It helps to be able to monitor your processor temp at all times too.



Doc