O/T OC questions for first time

I just FINALLY upgraded my CPU from an AMD Athlon XP 1700+ to an AMD Sempron 2800+ and was wondering about overclocking it to 3000+ spec. It's running at 2g right now but what would my overclocking max be before I run the risk of burning the chip up? My CMOS setting is at 166mhz which is up from the XP being at 133. Having never overclocked anything before I thought I'd ask here where the "knowers" are. Thanks for any help given. V

I just FINALLY upgraded my CPU from an AMD Athlon XP 1700+ to an AMD Sempron 2800+ and was wondering about overclocking it to 3000+ spec. It's running at 2g right now but what would my overclocking max be before I run the risk of burning the chip up? My CMOS setting is at 166mhz which is up from the XP being at 133. Having never overclocked anything before I thought I'd ask here where the "knowers" are. Thanks for any help given. V

I can't help you on this, but you might get some good info at alt.comp.hardware.overclocking. V "fnugen" wrote:

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> I just FINALLY upgraded my CPU from an AMD Athlon XP 1700+ to an AMD > Sempron 2800+ and was wondering about overclocking it to 3000+ spec. > It's running at 2g right now but what would my overclocking max be > before I run the risk of burning the chip up? My CMOS setting is at > 166mhz which is up from the XP being at 133. Having never overclocked > anything before I thought I'd ask here where the "knowers" are. Thanks > for any help given. > > V

BRH wrote:

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> I can't help you on this, but you might get some good info at > alt.comp.hardware.overclocking. > > V "fnugen" wrote: > >> I just FINALLY upgraded my CPU from an AMD Athlon XP 1700+ to an AMD >> Sempron 2800+ and was wondering about overclocking it to 3000+ spec. >> It's running at 2g right now but what would my overclocking max be >> before I run the risk of burning the chip up? My CMOS setting is at >> 166mhz which is up from the XP being at 133. Having never overclocked >> anything before I thought I'd ask here where the "knowers" are. Thanks >> for any help given. >> >> V

Thanks. Just posted there. V

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> I can't help you on this, but you might get some good info at > alt.comp.hardware.overclocking. >> I just FINALLY upgraded my CPU from an AMD Athlon XP 1700+ to an AMD >> Sempron 2800+ and was wondering about overclocking it to 3000+ spec. >> It's running at 2g right now but what would my overclocking max be >> before I run the risk of burning the chip up? My CMOS setting is at >> 166mhz which is up from the XP being at 133. Having never overclocked >> anything before I thought I'd ask here where the "knowers" are. Thanks >> for any help given. >> V

Thanks. Just posted there. V

V "fnugen" wrote:

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> I just FINALLY upgraded my CPU from an AMD Athlon XP 1700+ to an AMD > Sempron 2800+ and was wondering about overclocking it to 3000+ spec. > It's running at 2g right now but what would my overclocking max be > before I run the risk of burning the chip up? My CMOS setting is at > 166mhz which is up from the XP being at 133. Having never overclocked > anything before I thought I'd ask here where the "knowers" are.

Thanks > for any help given. > > V Since you already have a 166FSB, you may not have much room for overclocking. Alot depends on your M/B, heatsink, etc. You'll almost certainly have to up the voltage a little to get much of an overclock. The other question is will your motherboard allow your memory to run at a different speed, or will your memory ramp up to above 166 w/o timing adjustments. Get a copy of SiSoft Sandra (the free version) and check out your CPU temp. I think under 60degC is a safe rule, but it depends on the chip (I haven't kept up with the latest AMD CPU's, so I'm not sure about the Sempron). Definitely check out alt.comp.overclocking, as well as the alt.comp.periphs.mainboard group for your motherboard. Good luck! Kendt

>I just FINALLY upgraded my CPU from an AMD Athlon XP 1700+ to an AMD >Sempron 2800+ Well, too bad you don't know the chip codes on that 1700+. My 1700+ is currently running at 11x225 = 2.4ghz, or around an honest 3400+ rating. The later versions were some of the best overclocking chips ever made. How high you can go largely depends on the motherboard and the ram you are using. You should tell us those. rms

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>>I just FINALLY upgraded my CPU from an AMD Athlon XP 1700+ to an AMD >>Sempron 2800+ > > > Well, too bad you don't know the chip codes on that 1700+. My 1700+ is > currently running at 11x225 = 2.4ghz, or around an honest 3400+ rating. The > later versions were some of the best overclocking chips ever made. How high > you can go largely depends on the motherboard and the ram you are using. > You should tell us those. > > rms > >

My board is an MSI KT4AV and the ram is one PC2700 512 DDR and one PC3200 512 DDR (not my choice they got mixed). The chip has got to be around 4 yrs old now. No idea how to get nor read the code off the chip. Hope this new info helps out. V

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>>I just FINALLY upgraded my CPU from an AMD Athlon XP 1700+ to an AMD >>Sempron 2800+ > Well, too bad you don't know the chip codes on that 1700+. My 1700+ is > currently running at 11x225 = 2.4ghz, or around an honest 3400+ rating. The > later versions were some of the best overclocking chips ever made. How high > you can go largely depends on the motherboard and the ram you are using. > You should tell us those. > rms

My board is an MSI KT4AV and the ram is one PC2700 512 DDR and one PC3200 512 DDR (not my choice they got mixed). The chip has got to be around 4 yrs old now. No idea how to get nor read the code off the chip. Hope this new info helps out. V

rms wrote:

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>>I just FINALLY upgraded my CPU from an AMD Athlon XP 1700+ to an AMD >>Sempron 2800+ > > Well, too bad you don't know the chip codes on that 1700+. My 1700+ > is > currently running at 11x225 = 2.4ghz, or around an honest 3400+ rating. > The > later versions were some of the best overclocking chips ever made. How > high you can go largely depends on the motherboard and the ram you are > using. You should tell us those. > > rms

You may be runing that XP1700 at a rating of a 3400+ but thats about like saying you can spin your 4 banger at 15k. Spins fast but you havent any torque either :-) No amount of OC can create more transistors just makes whats existing cycle faster. Mitch -- Remove "nospam." to reply. SuSE 9.2 Pro KDE3.3.2a. YaSTastic!

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 17:56:38 GMT, Mitch_A <[email hidden]> wrote something like:

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>rms wrote: > >> Well, too bad you don't know the chip codes on that 1700+. My 1700+ >> is >> currently running at 11x225 = 2.4ghz, or around an honest 3400+ rating. > >You may be runing that XP1700 at a rating of a 3400+ but thats about like >saying you can spin your 4 banger at 15k. Spins fast but you havent any >torque either :-)

At 15k rpm you don't need that much torque to create power ;) http://kotisivu.mtv3.fi/igor/torque.gif >No amount of OC can create more transistors just makes >whats existing cycle faster. So? If they perform the same (eg. XP1700+ @ XP3400+ and XP3400+ @ XP3400+), they perform the same. Doesn't matter how the performance is achieved now does it? -- - Jussi Koukku -