my machine specs are as follows: Athlon XP 2800 Barton 333mhz Crucial 512mb PC3200 400mhz ATI Radeon 9550 256mb 500watt PSU PC Chips M/b M848A Ive recently been trying to overclock my AthlonXP2800 to a 3200 or so I hoped but have been failing misurabley. I increased the fsb from 266 to 177 and changed the CPU to RAM ration to 8:9 and then tried 1:1, but it reads the chip as 3200 but reaches loading of windows and then restarts, or reaches login window and a blue screen appears. I then reduced the fsb to 173 and it detects the chip as 3000 running stable at 1.16ghz not as good as I would have hoped, anyone have any recommendations of what I could do? my running temp for 173fsb is 64oC
well ou can only overclock it so far what i could suggest is that you change the voltage to increase the front side bus even further there as also specialist sites out there for doing it try googling overclocking amd athlon 2800+ i managed to up my 3000+ to a 3200+ doesnt make much of a difference only in encoding and so on so really there isnt much to gain but try that anyway.
Hey you might want to have a look at this thread it's closed now but it is full of help for what you need http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/101705
jonni3 that was one of the longest an coolest threads ever we learn a lot there could this one be a start jejejejee!!
Sounds to me like you have the original barton like I do, you can increase voltage to get a little higher FSB but it will just get too hot. Get some great cooling and you might be able to get it higher and be safe but i doubt youll ever hit the 3200 mark. The 2800 bartons that everyone is overclocking with ease is the mobile version. It was designed to run at cooler temps so you can oc it like crazy.
hi there yes my barton is lock!!!!!. when you say 3200 you mean 3.2ghz or 3200+ (2.2ghz)?? mine 2.45ghz is my top after that all i get is winxp to freeze and a lots of bugs. i have the thermaltake volc 12 wich works great and noisy jejjee. but yes! mobile bartons wich are not really barton core is a througbred modify core it run at lower vcore 1.4v and has lower cache 256 kb produce less heat and it unlock. in my xperience higher sires xp´s 2700,2800,3000,3200+ are close to the limits already so theres just small room for extra clocks speeds. not like early series of xp´s like 1900+,2200,2400 and 2500+ wich are the best overclockeable cpu´s the 2500+ barton can be driven to 3200 with water cooling or no2 like those crazy but cool guys of tomhardware.com did!!
after applying a wire-in-socket trick to reach a Vcore of 1.8v, I have managed to overclock my 2800+ Barton to a 3400+ apparently according to another website if I apply another wire-in-socekt trick to unlock the multipliers I may be able to get it to run at 3600+, but I need better cooling as at the minute it is running at 53oC which I am not happy about really!
Theres a link for the unlock multi trick in the link i posted, most of us have our 2800+ Bartons running @ 2.5ghz stable isn't there a bios update or modded bios for your mobo that would allow you select various core voltages...Hey Dr.XP i hope so man that was such a good thread i learned a lot form it, such a shame it was closed the way it was, but hey maybe we can keep this one going as long as everyone keeps it clean and cival
No unfortunately I made the mistake of purchasing a cheap mobo, I visted the mobo's forum and there are modded bioses but apparently it is locked from chaging the vcore so instead had to resort to the wire-in-socket trick. As my temp is a little on the high side, could someone recommend me a cheap heatsink and fan for my chip that would reduce my temp. Thanks!
I think you'll find most of us will recomend the Thermaltake Volcano 12 it's a bit on the loud side but is very, very effective at cooling the barton along with a squirt of Artic silver 5 ....
get a coolermaster I am running amd sempron 2400+ @ 36c with a valcano i had installed on it b4 it ran @ 62c coolermasters usually run slower rpm wise but their metal heatsinks& fans are 2 times the size of a normal fan & heatsink thus resulting in much much better cooling. (well at least the 1 I got) its 2 times the size of a normal 1 litterally) the larger the fan & heatsink the better
I meant to say they are not througbred core. Its not the lack of the cache that produces less heat, it is the FSB multiplier that is on some models run at 133.
hello guys, molks mobile-bartons are in fact througbred modify cores,and yes the mult is whats gives you the room to o´c. te lower vcore,stock fsb let´s you to get far and produce less heat per watt. i read a few reviews on that ill get the link to post it!! hey jyoung whats cheap for you?? volcano 12 cost less that 29-30 us at www.xoxide.com
My god - I dont believe it. I have 2 mobile bartons with barton cores with 512kb L2 cache. How do you explain that? You have to get your facts straight before you post on forums. All I can do is refer you to AMD.com to sort this matter out!
molk my apologies there both 256kb and 512 kb througbred mod and real unlock (mobile) bartons with 512 kb l2 cache. sorry [bold]¨learn and teach^^[/bold] ddp http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_1276_2365~36210,00.html
