overclocking amd 2800 athlon xp

Ok, I have it OC'd to 2500, seems steady, ran a few games, but is there a good stress test program I can run? Thanks.

 

what are u wanting to test? CPU or ram? or the whole lot?

 

I guess everything. I tried Prime95 but can't figure it out.

 

i have geil´s platinium series pc-4400 great stuff haven´t try above 198mhz on my asus

 

striker try getting memtest and super pi. one after another will stress ur components. even playin games for a few hours will do it as well as the progs i stated above.

 

How in the hell do you use prime95????? I must have dl'd the wrong thing.

 

just use memtest and superpi instead man its all good

 

Hi ppl,

Good to hear some success from you getting some good numbers with the oc's. My 2800 is long gone but when pushing my XP2500-M barton I always test with prime as I need the maths form the chip to work. This is critical also since it ensures you will not corrupt files you save back to harddisk - XP can become damaged.

Prime95 is for serious maths, but has good/excellent built in 'stress testing', that when you install the program you select instead of the prime number research. When you run the program for testing you go into 'Options' then goto 'Torture Test'

There are 4 selections.

I use the first since I really want to kill the overclock if its bad with FPU. Usually its not a good idea to push to the thermal limit anyway for 2 obvious reasons: 1 because you can burn and 2 it will not be stable. Some people notice high FSB instability so selection 2 is good for that.

If you are worried about FSB then do some memtests.

I had my chip at 2.7ghz with some basic water cooling, but I noticed my PSU was under load and it buckled. Use the motherboard monitor for voltage checking.

 

hello molks welcome back!!!
very good input man!!

 

sweet i got my rig stable at 200. im pushin 2.9V into the ram, 2.75V into the cpu (its @2505.7Mhz) Just doin some tests and gaming to make sure it is stable. I did a run of Aquamark 3 and got a score of 50,977 Which is a personal best for me. This ram is really hurting my pc tho...i need some descent stuff. What do u guys think?

 

If it's stable then nice o.c .... whats the rest of your system specs

 

after testing i've found it was only stable for the Aquamark 3 run. So im back down to 198 again. Im running a 2800+@2475Mhz, generic pc2700 ram, NF7-S Revision 2.0 mobo, Radeon 9800xt (can't/Won't overclock), Antec TrueBlue 470W PSU, 160GB Seagate SATA HDD. Then i run 5 Case fans. A Vantec PCI Spectrum Fan card to cool the gfx and a thermalright Sp-97? i think, with a 92mm CPU fan

 

Gotta luv that TrueBlue, had mine over a year.

 

Josh2800. Hey that Must be a typo. 2.75 volts into that processor? You're on about 1.75 V right?

Hey both of you can I ask you to do something - Jonnie also? Could you use motherboard monitor 5.3.7 and use the high/low Vcore info and post the results over resonable use (4 hrs or more?)

I am interested in a new PSU for my NF7-Sv2 and the trueblue sounds reasonable.

 

All it seems to do is just monitor. Is there something else? BTW, I've tried and tried to OC my 2800 with no luck. I throw in my Sempron 3000+ and I OC it on the first try. FSB 200, 2.4Ghz. Stable. Go figure.

 

I had no stability with my 2800. I just guessed the chip was already on a bad stepping. The sempron 3000 has a clock speed of what to begin with?

 

Molks what voltages are you using when you o.c your barton

 

The Sempron 3000+ Socket A has 333FSB.I have mine at 200 with Corsair XMS3200c2 ram. I ran prime95 for 8hours with no errors. I'm happy. Hmmmm........Athlon XP2800 for sale!!!!!

 

hey guys whats up? yeah that was a typo and yep MBM only monitors from what i know. Hows the OCing peeps?

 

I was at 1.95V setting on the NF7, but the PSU was providing 1.87. When I was going for 2.7 (stable for 6 hours) I was pushing it at 2.05 - 2.1V PSU was seriously unbalanced, the -12V rail was at 10.8V, 12V was 11.00. +5 v was more like 4.5. Got a totally wierd error in prime - it told me 100 times that I had an illegal sum out.

MBM gave me 0.2 V swing in Vcore - not good.