I have the Gigabyte Ga-7n400 Pro2 mb with a barton 3200+ at 400fsb with 1 gig of OCZ pc3200 ram also at 400fsb, now its running at 2.2ghz yet my mb says it supports up to 3.2ghz...Can i overclock this thing? obviously not to 3.2ghz but is amd ever planning on making xps/bartons higher than 3200+ ?? how am i ever supposed to reach 3.2ghz if they stopped after 3200+ ?
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Well, to answer your first question, yes, you can overclock your cpu, but you're ram will be a bottleneck, as might cooling. No, AMD will probably never make an XP/Barton past 3200, i think they are focused on the 64s now, but...instead of saying like "Athlon XP 3500+) or something, it will say "Athlon XP 3200+" and then whatever speed its at. That doesn't really hinder performance, you just won't see it say higher than a 3200, but it will run at like 2.3, 2.4, etc. whatever you clock it at.
Hope that helps,
alex
Hope that helps,
alex
Your motherboard supports processors up to 3200 rating, not 3.2 GHz. As you pointed out, AMD has never produced anything even close to that frequency.
Overclocking is usually done by adjusting the FSB since the multiplier of the processor is locked, I presume it's at 11x200. Slowly adjust the FSB upwards and check if your system is still stable. But since the 3200 was the highest speed they put out, there is probably not much juice left in that core to get realy high overclocks out of it. That is when you start fidling with the voltage, install water cooling and read the "extreme cooling" sections. Followed by the 2nd job to replace the components you fried since you did not quite knew what the effects of those adjustments realy were
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Overclocking is usually done by adjusting the FSB since the multiplier of the processor is locked, I presume it's at 11x200. Slowly adjust the FSB upwards and check if your system is still stable. But since the 3200 was the highest speed they put out, there is probably not much juice left in that core to get realy high overclocks out of it. That is when you start fidling with the voltage, install water cooling and read the "extreme cooling" sections. Followed by the 2nd job to replace the components you fried since you did not quite knew what the effects of those adjustments realy were
.right whitewale...lol...if you just don't go all out, just increase in incriments, you should be fine, and i agree, you won't get much more out of it...but u could see a performance increase...about the RAM, if you put in PC3500, it will run at the highest rated speed of you're motherboard, aka PC3200. But, as you raise the CPU FSB, the RAM will then need to clock higher, which makes PC3500 make sense, because it is rated to run at a higher speed than 3200. This is good if you want higher overclocks, because you are more stable.