OC'ing

[Travis King]

When I try to overclock my CPU in the BIOS. It will work, but the computer
will restart itself. Am I doing something wrong? Instead of the clock
speed, should I change the multiplier? I know that if you go over the rated
CPU speed it will restart randomly. Is the CPU unlocked? I have the 2400+
Athlon XP and the A7V333 motherboard with Kingston PC-3000 RAM.

 

[Hippy Paul]

When I try to overclock my CPU in the BIOS. It will work, but the computer
will restart itself. Am I doing something wrong? Instead of the clock
speed, should I change the multiplier? I know that if you go over the rated
CPU speed it will restart randomly. Is the CPU unlocked? I have the 2400+
Athlon XP and the A7V333 motherboard with Kingston PC-3000 RAM.

Firstly it depends on which version of the a7v333 that you have - if it is a
rev 1.x then you may have problems geting up to 166mhz or much over, if it
is a rev 2 then you may get up to 180 - 185mhz before you hit the
instability caused by the unintentional overclock of the pci/agp bus. The
2400+ is a b core with a default of 15 x 133 (2000mhz) - many have reported
reaching 2400mhz on b core.

Have you tried adjusting the vcore voltage to allow for the cpu speeds - for
example in my a7v333 rev 2, I can run my barton 2500+ at 13 x 166 (2158mhz)
at stock 1.65v; 14x166 (2324mhz) at 1.85v 15x166 (2490mhz) at 2.1v - though
that is stupidly hot)

There is no reason why the cpu would fall over simply because it is
overclocked - only because the conditions are not right for it runing at
higher speed.