o/c newbie question

Stonyboy · May 1, 2003, 03:53 PM

I have a Athlon XP 2400+ Thoroughbred Retail running @ 2Ghz (default) and my board is a Soyo Dragon Ultra Platinum edition (KT-400) and was wondering if i can o\c it and is there anyway to o\c without doing adding any extra fan or cooling stuff (i dont know anything about installing that) if its a mather of changing stuff in BIOS that i can do tought.

Thanks for your help

apotsi · May 1, 2003, 09:05 PM

Try a little bit with the FSB first. What cooler do you have? Stock Cooler? If the answer is yes, then don't go more than 10 FSB up. And Always use the last BIOS of your board.

JTSF · May 4, 2003, 01:33 PM

In Tbred cpu multipliers are not locked, am I right?

So you can reduce the multiplier to 12x and raise FSB to 166mhz. But only if your memory can handle this!. Assuming that you have now 15x133mhz. That should speed up your computer dramatically, and temperatures shouldn´t raise at all.

So what memory (how fast) are you using? If it is 333mhz or better this should work.

May 4, 2003, 05:19 PM

it depends on the motherboard whether or not the cpu is unlocked... if it unlocks one athlon xp it unlocks them all... pally or tbred or barton (assuming it is officially supported) but the tbred i know for sure is the only one that is TOTALLY unlocked... he can raise the fsb more than only 10 MHz... 10 MHz wont even raise the temperature 1 degree... but yes... give us some more specs... the type of core your cpu has, the type of ram you have (DDR or not? brand? and speed...) and we will go on from there.

May 1, 2003, 03:53 PM	#1
Stonyboy DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 5 Rep Power: 0	o/c newbie question I have a Athlon XP 2400+ Thoroughbred Retail running @ 2Ghz (default) and my board is a Soyo Dragon Ultra Platinum edition (KT-400) and was wondering if i can o\c it and is there anyway to o\c without doing adding any extra fan or cooling stuff (i dont know anything about installing that) if its a mather of changing stuff in BIOS that i can do tought. Thanks for your help

May 1, 2003, 09:05 PM	#2
apotsi DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2003 Location: Athens, Greece Posts: 18 Rep Power: 0	FSB baby steps Try a little bit with the FSB first. What cooler do you have? Stock Cooler? If the answer is yes, then don't go more than 10 FSB up. And Always use the last BIOS of your board. __________________ Normal people believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.

May 4, 2003, 01:33 PM	#3
JTSF DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Finland Posts: 22 Rep Power: 0	In Tbred cpu multipliers are not locked, am I right? So you can reduce the multiplier to 12x and raise FSB to 166mhz. But only if your memory can handle this!. Assuming that you have now 15x133mhz. That should speed up your computer dramatically, and temperatures shouldn´t raise at all. So what memory (how fast) are you using? If it is 333mhz or better this should work.

May 4, 2003, 05:19 PM	#4
generalstupid Guest Posts: n/a	it depends on the motherboard whether or not the cpu is unlocked... if it unlocks one athlon xp it unlocks them all... pally or tbred or barton (assuming it is officially supported) but the tbred i know for sure is the only one that is TOTALLY unlocked... he can raise the fsb more than only 10 MHz... 10 MHz wont even raise the temperature 1 degree... but yes... give us some more specs... the type of core your cpu has, the type of ram you have (DDR or not? brand? and speed...) and we will go on from there.