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i added a 3200xp amd athlon processor to my computer. it is
currently running at 2.21GHZ
. is that the max she can put out ,without overclocking?if not, could
you,send me some setting to make it run alittle faster. ihave a
AK77-600N motherboard with R1.09 Bios version ,socket type A .
I remember, back in the day, taking a PII at 350 MHz and OCing it to
something like 485 MHz by changing the multiplier via jumper settings on the
MOBO itself. It ran great... Oddly it wouldn't run at about 425 Mhz, it kept
restarting. As I said... It ran great and continued running as such for at
least a half hour before it shut off without rebooting and I smelled a
really interesting new odor that's quite unlike anything I'd ever smelled
before even when removing solder from a board. This was, of course, the
start to a brief addiction where I made a number of computers run faster
than their settings were meant to allow. Now I settle for case mods, pretty
lights, and neat fan control intefaces with slots to insert cards and drives
as well as giving temperature read-out. There's a moral to this. Unless you
have another computer to back up to or have the money to buy a new one and
the patience to do without one while you're new box is being assembled,
shipped, and tested it's not really worth it. The AMD you have runs pretty
hot already, without a good heatsync you're going to eventually burn
something out probably. If you want your PC to run faster consider adding
more RAM. If you absolutely insist on OCing (and I admit I still sometimes
get the urge) consider going all the way and using high end radiator fluid
in a water based cooling system or a refigerated unit and be prepared to
spend a great deal of money on hardware that you blew simply to get a few
hundred extra flops. I will not tell you that it's not fun. I will tell you
that the end result is not always that much better and that you are probably
going to ruin your hardware by doing so. Don't say you've not been warned.
But, if you get good results, let me know. I'll try too
The closest I
have to that is a AMD Athlon XP 3200+ 2.2 GHz 400FSB sitting on a Giga Byte
GA-7NF-RZ. I should add that it runs plenty fast as it is with only 1 GB of
DDR RAM (PC2700 as the board doesn't support the 400 MHz RAM oddly - or so
the page said when I bought it. I've not actually tried any though, it has a
400 FSB so I'd think that it probably would.)
Again, you're going to ruin a lot of good hardware probably. There's no
"safe way" to overclock.
Galen
--
"My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me
the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am
in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial
stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for
mental exaltation." -- Sherlock Holmes
