Overclocking

[Happydude]

junbo, post prices please?

[Typhoid]

What the hell is a heatsink...... I know it sounds lame.....but perhaps my computer is too damn good.....who knows...

[Jonbo298]

Originally Posted by happydude666

junbo, post prices please?

When I bought the heatsink, it had just came out and I paid around $50 for it.

For the fan, I have no clue. Hero2 couldn't stand the noise (he had no fan controller) so I got it from him for free as an Xmas gift.

And typhoid, a heatsink is a thing that helps to transfer heat away from the processor so it doesn't overheat. And no processor (past 1990 at least) can survive without a heatsink to transfer the heat off from it.

[GiMpY-wAnNaBe]

Originally Posted by Typhoid

What the hell is a heatsink...... I know it sounds lame.....but perhaps my computer is too damn good.....who knows...

a heatsink is a metal piece that absorbs heat created by a component. It is made out of a metal which transfers heat easily so that it can carry the heat from one end to another quickly, at which point it is dissipated. A combination heatsink and fan works best. Oh, and Jonbo, thats the same fan i have, but its for an AMD 2500+, no I'm not overcompensating for something

[quiet mike]

Originally Posted by Jonbo298

I have a 2500+ at 3200+ so I know how to do it to 3200 speeds easily (as long as nothing else inside complains )

Go into bios, the FSB should be at 333 (or 1 mhz around it) right now. Change it to 400 and your set. Now also, you do have PC-3200 ram right? (just to make sure it can handle 400 fsb without any problem)

Well the true FSB is 166x2 so if your BIOS shows the real FSB you have to increase it to 200 so it would get a 400 FSB. Alos before saving this setting, lower your CPU multiplier. It might be that your CPU might not overclock just as good as Jonobo's CPU. So now your CPU works at 166x##. Changing the FSB you will get 200x## but it might be too much, and you won't even be able to boot the system, and have to wait for it many hours until the CPU is at room temperature and can hold on at boot until you change the BIOS (I know it hapened to me)
After a few tests where you can see the RAM is stable at the speed slowly increase the CPU multiplier and retest until you reach the ceeling of it's speed on current cooling and voltage. From here on you're on your own if you try to increase voltage and other stuff.

[Jonbo298]

I have a 2500 Gimpy

And to quiet: As long as his isn't a locked barton (on hte multiplier) he can change it. I know about a year ago or so AMD started locking the multipliers on them (unfortunately mine was locked too) so he may or may not be able to mess with it too. And also, I spaced on the 166/200 thing. I'm used to thinking 333/400 and didn't think about the bios possibly showing it that way.