Mobile Athlon XP 2500+ OC'ing

[Galco]

Alright then. Last summer I got this AMD Athlon Xp 2500+ Mobile CPU, along with some 512 RAM, etc. I had a time figuring out how to overclock it. But, eventually I got the cpu stable at about 2.3ghz. But, about a month or two ago lightning hit the house, bat'a bing, power supply and motherboard is fried. SO, I rebot some shit, had some things RMA'd, and I figured while I was at it, to buy another stick of RAM (512) and to get a better PS then what I had before, which was something like a 350watt. So now here is my problem. I've got a gig or RAM, a 430watt PS, and the same cpu. BUT, I can't get it to oc over 1.50 or 1.60. Everything else will crash after Windows boots, or imediatly after saving and exiting the BIOS. What would be the warning of how high to get the voltage? Somewhere around 1.650V?

What I had before with the 350Watt and the 512 RAM was this :
166Mhz
12.5x
1.650V

And that was stable, but on here it freaks out. Any suggestions?

-alan

 

[DocFaustus]

If you remove that additional stick of ram, can you still overclock like you used to?

Also try moving the new stick of ram to another slot.

 

[schonsnow]

i havea mobile athlon 2400 and i run mine at 1.575 usually it runs around 1.58 in windows, and i run at 420 fsb 2.3 ghz. anything above 2.3 and the amd mobiles freak out. i have friend whose running his at 2.1 400 fsb with 1.7v. in all honesty different ram companies and configurations and motherboard companies affect overclocking. sometimes its not just the proc and voltage, could be themotherboard not liking the new powersupply? or the new ram? maybe its the timings on your ram slow them down and then make the fsb go up?

^^up there is a lot of random crap but really man from 2.1-2.3 you wont notice huge difference maybe 1-2 frames. So if it can't do it and you've tried everything its not worth buying a new mobo or ram for it. just forget it and keep your temps down ^.^ some procs are lemons, some are gods, blame ups its the damn shipping damages haha XD have a good night

 

[Galco]

Right now it's at 1.2, but it seems to be running alot faster than that. Correct me if I am wrong, but it is running COD 2 like a champ, could it be wrong what speed it says it is at?