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Thread ID: 72489	2006-09-14 20:14:00	Overclocking My CPU	Tracer-Bullet (10096)	Press F1

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484816	2006-09-18 06:50:00	I am in a very similar situation. Im stuck with a athlonXP 2600+ barton and a really crappy mobo so i currently cant use the following advice due to the aforementioned mobo. From what ive just read on wikipedia, your athlonXP 2700 is based on the older Thoroughbred A/B core and has a fsb of 333mhz, multiplier of 13x which results in a clockspeed of 2167mHz. The safest overclock would be to bump the fsb up to 400mhz and lower the multiplier to 11x. This would result in a clockspeed of exactly 2.2gHz. The added performance would come from the greater memory throughput. This is only truely effective if your memory is also running at 400mhz. Also your motherboard needs to support 400mhz fsb. alot of older sktA mobos dont. Dual channel would also help. If the aforementioned overclock doent work, i would advise trying a multiplier of 10.5 or even 10.75 if its avalable, which would result in 2100mhz and 2150mhz respectivly. The nice thing is that this sort of overclocking shouldnt hurt the processor in anyway since there is no extra heat output so your current cooling should be enough. the core is proven to work at fsb400 as amd released the 3100+ although its not a very common cpu. With the barton core however there were 3 models.	Mirddes (10)
484817	2006-09-18 09:55:00	Just out of curiosity how much overclocking experience do you have Graham? You seem very keen to harp on about the perils. Overclocking has come a long way since the likes of the Celeron 300A, there are very strong communities with alot of experience and knowledge. Just because you think its too dangerous doesnt mean it shouldnt be done. P.S ive overclocked alot of systems, Pentiums, Celerons, Athlons, Durons, K6-2's	Pete O'Neil (6584)
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