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[hoodedrat]

ok so i got the MSI kt3 ultra-aru and i've got an athlon xp 1800 in the mail with the coolermaster heatsink that has the heat pipes, i dont wanna unlock the cpu, but just wondering how much i can crank the bus up w/o unlocking it, and if i do change the bus at all what should my other settings be?

[grimfandango]

I dont think you should over clock at all..

XPs dont overclock vvery well. even if you did overclock you can only get 50-75mhz more!!!

B-)

[Bigjakkstaffa]

AMD T-Bird -- NOW THERES A CPU THAT O/c's well

Likewise the p4 is supposed to be good too, although ive heard very negative things about the XP+ ranges's o/c ability.

--Jakk

[vibe666]

Unless you want to spend a couple of hundred dollars on a water cooling kit. which you probably don't do you?

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[Bigjakkstaffa]

...it would have been cheaper to buy a P4 in the longrun if he did



--Jakk

[tricktx]

the only way to easily increase an XP's core speed is by increasing the FsB of the motherboard. Either do this trough the bios or by a software program in windows, but as you know by noe they dont overclock much. I have got my XP1800@1.53GHZ to run at 1.64GHZ stabally. I can oush it to 1.7GHZ but its not worth the risk, as the temp gets up to 60 degrees ish while at the moment its on 44

[Mutant_Donkey]

my freinds 1800+xp will not even post at 140mhz FSB, even with +.2voltage

[grimfandango]

Originally posted by Mutant_Donkey
my freinds 1800+xp will not even post at 140mhz FSB, even with +.2voltage

as I said XPs dont overclock very well.. You will be luckey if can get 40-70 mhz by overclocking!

[hoodedrat]

alrighty, thanks everybody, still waitin for that darn proc to get here, i got a new case and kt3 ultra mobo last friday and we spent all weekend troubleshooting why i had no video, tried everything and finally concluded it was the proc, cuz the 1.33 tbird i was running had been chipped on the core and so we through 2 diff procs in there and it worked both times and we put the tbird in a diff comp and it wouldnt work. Not to sure how it got chipped, but i think it might be from the thermometer sensor on the case cuz it has a cool thermometer on the front, but oh well, now i got a good board (upgraded from ecs k7s5a ) and about to have a new proc

[tricktx]

why are you upgrading from the k7s5a board. Its been excerlant for me

[hoodedrat]

it was a decent board, but not many features, and i didnt ask for the kt3 ultra it was given to me as a gift