2800Barton, what should its max stable speed be??

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INYNN

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Hey guys, i have a barton 2800, and i just traded in the trusty asus a7v8x for the a7n8x-e dlx i know its not a A64 chip or bored, but im gunna stick with the athlonXP for a little bit till the prices come down and better models come out for the A64's

Anyways, Im currently running my barton @ 2200Mhz, I know the claimed max speed is 3000Mhz, but what is a speed i can achieve and run stable at? i have good cooling, a thermaltake silentboost heatsink with a tornado fan bolted on top, the 6500rpm beast atop the silent boost keeps my processor sitting about 36-40degrees.
i have had it up to around 2400Mhz, with my old bored but i would get unstable around there, what i think is due to not being able to adjust the memory clock sepratly from the cpu clock...

Anyways anyone got any idea on what it should do? or is it just my best bet to bump and bump untill it becomes unstable?

Thx
 
INYNN said:
Hey guys, i have a barton 2800, and i just traded in the trusty asus a7v8x for the a7n8x-e dlx i know its not a A64 chip or bored, but im gunna stick with the athlonXP for a little bit till the prices come down and better models come out for the A64's

Anyways, Im currently running my barton @ 2200Mhz, I know the claimed max speed is 3000Mhz, but what is a speed i can achieve and run stable at? i have good cooling, a thermaltake silentboost heatsink with a tornado fan bolted on top, the 6500rpm beast atop the silent boost keeps my processor sitting about 36-40degrees.
i have had it up to around 2400Mhz, with my old bored but i would get unstable around there, what i think is due to not being able to adjust the memory clock sepratly from the cpu clock...

Anyways anyone got any idea on what it should do? or is it just my best bet to bump and bump untill it becomes unstable?

Thx
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were you able to boot into windows at 2400mhz? if so you might as well start there. keep memory at stock timing/speed/voltage change the fsb/memory divider if your cpu is locked. then run prime95 and see if its stable. if not you could lower the clock speed or up the voltage. btw is this a unlocked cpu? on air cooling i think the limit is 2.7ghz and usually theyre mobile cpus
 
Try setting the vcore to 1.85V and then OC the processor to 2.44Ghz. Should run as solid as a rock.
 
The CPU is unlocked, and its currently running at 2188mhz, and very stable at 7.25-7.50v, i cant remember. im gunna clock it up to 2500 mhz now all ill post what iit does again.
thanks
should 7.5v be enough for that speed?
 
Ok just finished playing around with it for a bit, its sitting @ 2300mhz even (1.75V)
It seems to be stable (havent tested it in games or with benchmarks yet, but poking around in windows and shit it seems to be fine. testing will tell me for sure.

i pushed it up to like 2.4ghz 2.45ghz but it wouldent load into windows so thats no good, it would load windows @ like 2400 but i dident want to be that close to unstable so im gunna stick with 2300mhz if this will work for me. current temp in windows with some shit open is 39.C so its not running hot at all really.

anyways what to use for benching it? prime 95, and if so im not sure really what to run with that benchmark or how the program works... anyways thanks for the input
-kyle
 
my 2800 didnt go past 2.3 but it was locked... it also lost its overclock over time.. by the time i sold it it was down to stock :rolleyes: it also didnt like fsb over 180 mhtz... i was grumbling about that... but at 180 mhtz my memory ran at cas 2.0... makes me want new memory...
 
INYNN said:
Anyways, Im currently running my barton @ 2200Mhz, I know the claimed max speed is 3000Mhz, but what is a speed i can achieve and run stable at? i have good cooling, a thermaltake silentboost heatsink with a tornado fan bolted on top, the 6500rpm beast atop the silent boost keeps my processor sitting about 36-40degrees.
i have had it up to around 2400Mhz, with my old bored but i would get unstable around there, what i think is due to not being able to adjust the memory clock sepratly from the cpu clock...

Anyways anyone got any idea on what it should do? or is it just my best bet to bump and bump untill it becomes unstable?

Thx
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People can recommend settings to use and what THEY have achieved.....but there really is NO "max stable speed" that you can really set in stone....as such a small percentage of ppl actually get close to 3GHz with these things it doesn't mean for much of anything. You shouldn't and can't expect a single thing with overclocking, but it is helpfull to still do what you're doing to get points of reference to look towards. Just don't ever get your hopes up is what I'm saying....just take everything as it comes.
 
cornelious0_0 said:
People can recommend settings to use and what THEY have achieved.....but there really is NO "max stable speed" that you can really set in stone....as such a small percentage of ppl actually get close to 3GHz with these things it doesn't mean for much of anything. You shouldn't and can't expect a single thing with overclocking, but it is helpfull to still do what you're doing to get points of reference to look towards. Just don't ever get your hopes up is what I'm saying....just take everything as it comes.
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i have same opinion on overclocking.. i had a friend who would pester me about how well his 6800le, and 2600 mobile and memory/mobo would overclock and would never let me go about his system running hl2; he then gets angry at me when i tell him heck if i know :mad:
 
ryuji said:
i have same opinion on overclocking.. i had a friend who would pester me about how well his 6800le, and 2600 mobile and memory/mobo would overclock and would never let me go about his system running hl2; he then gets angry at me when i tell him heck if i know :mad:
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Some people are beyond help and may not be worth the clarification....choose your battles wisely my friend. ;)
 
well its @ 2300mhz stable as rock now so im happy with that and my bus speed is at 406mhz so im pleased i think ill stick around this speed maby 2.35ghz
 
well its @ 2300mhz stable as rock now so im happy with that and my bus speed is at 406mhz so im pleased i think ill stick around this speed maby 2.35ghz
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Your ram might be running at 406MHz, but your FSB is still 203. It's true that bartons and such are listed as having a 333MHz fsb which is just 166x2, but when you're talking about what you have your fsb set to in your BIOS it's stated in the "singular" form, and not multiplied by 2.

What do you mean by rock stable? Make sure you can run Prime95's torture test for 12 hours without any errors....and if it can make it then you're good to go, just don't come to conclusions so early with overclocking and you should save running into issues later on.
 
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