Athlon MP OCing

[MrSiki99]

I was considering building an Athlon MP system (my first time) and perhaps overclocking it. Would this be a wise idea? Or would it create instability?

 

[fubar569]

You'd be supprised at the number of overclocked MP rigs, although they usually are XP's that have had the L5 painted so the motherboard recognizes them as MP...

Personally i have a set of XP's with the L5 painted and they are clocked at 2380mhz right now, with tight RAM timings, and they are totally ROCK stable...temps in the mid 40's under full load

 

[Tigerbiten]

Dual Athlon MP's dont overclock well if at all.

Max FSB is around 140 Mhz.
Max multi is 17.
Plus with two CPU's they can run hot.

But as they are server boards then they tend to run stable.

Luck.........

 

[MrSiki99]

Well, I am always multi-tasking so I need a lot of CPU, but I was wondering if -since I'm a gamer- I should make a athlon XP system and OC that.

 

[fubar569]

the MP boards are not ideal gaming systems. not many games take advantage of two processors and the bandwith is limited due to the low 133 (266) FSB of the boards...also most use registered ECC memory which isn't exactly made for great sandra scores...but as mentioned they are really stable...i can run mine 24/7 if only i could stay awake to keep filling the bongs...

however, paired with a 9600 or 9800 class card it would have no trouble at all running most games out today...