Amd Athlon XP 2800+ (barton Core)

Hey no worries , just gald to get you back to default .... whats the voltage rating of your 2 mem sticks if you are gonna o.c then try uping the DDR voltage in your bios from 2.5v to 2.6/7v to see if that improves stability

 

If i increase the CPU voltage from 1.66V - 1.70V will this increase the stability?

 

If your gonna o.c you cpu then yeah but if not best to leave it @ stock volts, try uping the mem voltage a little by .1 or .2 volts as some sticks like a little bit extra and run better with a bit more juice .... also do both your sticks have the same timings, try downloading cpu-z as this will give your the info ...main page http://www.cpuid.org/cpuz.php ....direct download http://www.cpuid.org/download/cpu-z-130.zip

 

It says my latency is 3clocks which is pretty bad
you can increase the voltage in the bios?

 

Yeah, go in to your bios and you should have a option in the right hand column @ the top of the page titled Frequency/Voltage control, enter this and you should have 7 options the 5th one down is DDR Voltage this is were you should be able to adjust it, also it gives you other overclocking option for you cpu as well on this page

 

ok cheers, if i do decide to overclock my cpu should i increase my cpu voltage to 1.70 ?

 

yeah, most you can go to is 1.85v but thtas only really for a FSB of 200+ ...if you do o.c then go little by little till you get it running stable

 

cool i wont be o'cing far
maybe to 2.15ghz or something

 

Have mine @ 2.5g stable, 2.2g is easily done

 

could you give me a run down on your components and your cpu settings like FSB/multiplier/voltage ETC:?

 

Abit NF7-S V.2 mobo, 2800+ barton , 2 x 512 Geil pc3200, thermaltake butterfly 480w psu, Volcano 12 hsf, Fsb @ 200 = 2505mhz, cpu v 1.85, mem v 2.9 ... the multiplier on the barton is locked @ 12.5 , temps 40c idle 45c load 2 x case fans in coolermaster centurion 5 case

 

Fark! nice OC what do you think i could get my cpu up to with my stats?

Ive been upto 185fsb before by accident but windows was so unstable that the mouse didnt work. I think if i increased the voltage it may have been stable.

 

Thats the thing you have to increase the voltages as you increase your fsb..... you should be able to hit 190ish maybe more with what you have there

 

mad i cant wait to start and if anythnig goes wrong and my computer screen like dosnt come back on or something i should just reset the jumper on the mainboard?

 

yeah if it don't post then just reset the cmos/bios, just write down all the adjustments you make then you can go back to last config that worked and was stable

 

Thanks so much you have been a great help to me, sounds like you have alot of experience im going to OC i will post back in 20hrs or so and tell you what i managed to oc to

 

Hey just what i picked up from hanging around here and trying out on my own system and anyone else who was crazy enough to let me near theirs

 

haha, anyways cheers