Computers OverClocked

**kyle** · Member Joined: Jun 15 2004 Posts: 6

I just bought a new system from newegg.com and i want to overclock my CPU. I have a AMD Athlon 64 2800+ and a MB ABIT KV8 PRO VIA K8T800PRO ATX R mothreboard. I was just wondering where i should start and what precautions i should take...thanks for any suggestions

**Adam** · Post subject: Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 10:40 pm

Welcome to computersOC!

Check out our overclocking guide below:
http://www.computersoc.com/faq.php?mode=overclocking

**kyle** · Member Joined: Jun 15 2004 Posts: 6

well when i had my computer built last night, i found out that the motherboard has dynamic overclocking, so i can choose what processor speed i want to run at. its pretty cool

**Dexter** · Member Joined: Apr 15 2004 Posts: 134 Location: Florida

I had dynamic-like overclocking tool for a vid card once too...too bad the thing burned the card up after about 3 days. Not to scare you or anything, but as a word to the wise make sure you check them temps and personally I don't recommend anything running over 130* F. It's not in a danger zone there but it's does shorten the product's life.

My amd 2500+ is running a frost 115* at worst in a gaming environment while it's overclocked to 2200 mhz.

**kyle** · Member Joined: Jun 15 2004 Posts: 6

well, ive been playing games non-stop with my oc setting on turbo, and i haven't seen the temps rise above 95. It's sweet.

**Dexter** · Member Joined: Apr 15 2004 Posts: 134 Location: Florida

Well turbo settings really aren't usually cranking much of anything except for aggressive timings on the front side bus...usually boosting it a whopping 1-2 mhz.

Expert settings and tweaking the system bus in general is where the speeds and temps start their roller coaster ride. Don't get me wrong that the multiplier does play a big role, but the frontside cranking heats up 3 things: RAM (since the ram speed stays in sync with the bus, however you can lower the multiplier on the ram to keep that in check if need be usually), Northerbridge/Southbridge of the Chipset, and the CPU itself.

Right now my system's biggest limitation I think is my north & southbridge don't like the idea of clearing 100 F with high speeds and that's why it won't let me crank to past 408 MHZ frontside.

My CPU otherwise at stock settings maxes out at 2 degrees above room temp on an aggressive timing in the gaming environment.

**kyle** · Member Joined: Jun 15 2004 Posts: 6

were you able to unlock the multiplier on your AMD? I've heard that they're locked.....i want to manually oc mine but im not sure i can if the multiplier is locked...I have an AMD 2800+

**Adam** · Post subject: Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2004 4:26 pm

It's locked. Do you have any FSB options to overclock?

**kyle** · Member Joined: Jun 15 2004 Posts: 6

i haven't checked in the BIOS yet...but i have a question...what would be a safe FSB increase for a first round of oc'ing? Right now im running at about 1.8 GHz

**Adam** · Post subject: Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2004 11:10 pm

Go up 5 MHz FSB each time.

**Dexter** · Member Joined: Apr 15 2004 Posts: 134 Location: Florida

Also do keep in mind that 2 mhz to system clock = 4 mhz to Frontside

**Guest** · Post subject: Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2004 7:48 pm

CAN I OC APENIUM 2 333 M2 64 MB RAM

**Adam** · Post subject: Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2004 7:51 pm

What brand?

**Guest** · Post subject: Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2004 7:52 pm

COMPACT

**Adam** · Post subject: Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2004 8:06 pm