Alright, this may seem pathetic to you guys, but i am bored and the only thing i have resources to do that sounds fun is overclock. Here are the specs of the system. (Funny note: My dad just came down and I told him what I was going to do and he said, "How do you do that? Turn a screw?") Motherboard: MSI K7T Turbo2 Processor: AMD 1700+ Palomino 1100Mhz Crappy Ram So how do I go about this endeavor? I searched and couldn't find anything that pertained to anything this old.
oh dear, your dad is a bit old fashioned Ehm no idea, i wasn't on that overclocking scene, only started in like 2004
where i was on that scene! ah ha! first thing a shall ask you, what is your fsb set at? if it is 11x 100= 1100MHz, bumb it to 133mhz on the fsb and you get 1467GHz i think, mental calculations at this time are a little slow for me! lol! iv never used an MSI K7T Turbo2 but i should think the FSB control is a jumper on the motherboard. look in the manual. it sounds as if you haven't set the fsb correctly. which means you may have an Athlon XP 1700+, so 2GHz is really your maxium overclock if you are lucky. also make sure your memory is rated at 133MHz, use cpuZ to check this. if so all is set for an extra 400mhz! i remember people going on about the speed of 400mhz processors back in the day! old K6-2's and P2's! lol
Model Number Frequency L2-Cache FSB 1 Multiplier Voltage TDP (Core) Athlon XP 1700+ 1467 MHz 256 KiB 266 MT/s 11x 1.75 V 64.0 W Just monitor the temperature, when you see a rise in temperature, crank the volts up a notch to overcome the additional resisitance But you'll already know this - But i have no idea but i believe you can get it up to a 2100+ on the stock volts because of this Model Number Frequency L2-Cache FSB 1 Multiplier Voltage TDP Athlon XP 1500+ 1333 MHz 256 KiB 266 MT/s 10x 1.75 V 60.0 W Athlon XP 1600+ 1400 MHz 256 KiB 266 MT/s 10.5x 1.75 V 62.8 W Athlon XP 1700+ 1467 MHz 256 KiB 266 MT/s 11x 1.75 V 64.0 W Athlon XP 1800+ 1533 MHz 256 KiB 266 MT/s 11.5x 1.75 V 66.0 W Athlon XP 1900+ 1600 MHz 256 KiB 266 MT/s 12x 1.75 V 68.0 W Athlon XP 2000+ 1667 MHz 256 KiB 266 MT/s 12.5x 1.75 V 70.0 W Athlon XP 2100+ 1733 MHz 256 KiB 266 MT/s 13x 1.75 V 72.0 W The mutlipliar seems to be the only variable, for a basic overclock
stock volts will be fine as you haven't overclocked the chip! you will just now be ruuning it at its true clock speed
if i remember palomino's dont like major voltage. they have been to 2v but in water cooled systems. Another shocking thing i noticed was are friend here (mr Mighty Yoshimi) hasn't overclocked his core duo far enough!
Yeeep thats true, the Mobo, likes to conk out at that speed. 0204 i find is still the most stable BIOS p5n32 Sli se deluxe, was what i went for cos i wanted sli, as soon as it was released, going to get me a more stable chipset
XP palomino, ill go do it and tell the results. My mult goes to 15, ill go 13 for starters. And stop hijacking.. lol, just kidding, enjoy the forum.
Hell if i know on the PSU, looks like kind of a POS. FSB is at 132(maxed out), CPUZ doesnt see the mult, it says 11x. Didnt want to boot on 15, although i had it on 1.75 still.
i can imagine 13 is probably the limit, as thats the highest that AMD produced of that line i think, if they could have got it to 13.5 and stable, imagine the easy money they would get
well you got 1500MHz so not all is lost. next id up the volts to 1.8v and go for the 13.5 multipler. i doudt it will work, but hey why not!
