Trying to Overclock My CPU

[Jeremizzle]

Thanks for explaining that mikey, I boosted my processor to 3.15ghz and in the middle of playing UT2004 the hottest it got was 52degrees C. Im gonna try to bump it up another 150mhz. Believe it or not I did notice an increase in speed. Faster loading levels and no lag when there were graphic/data intensive moments.

[Can_Opener]

I'm a member of the AMD crowd myself, and have overclocked my 2500+ to 3200+ speeds (I know its a weak overclock, I'm working with stock cooling right now though.) Anyways, Intel (I believe) and AMD processors (I know) are now multiplier locked, so the only way to overclock is to change the front side bus.

[Jeremizzle]

Is only being able to change the front side bus a bad thing? How would changing the frequency directly be any different.

[mikey101]

it's definitly still possible to unlock at least some AMD athlon XP's with the palimino/t-bred/barton core, you can either solder it yourself, or buy a small kit that clips onto the processor such as This

congrats on the successful OC Jeremizzle! Some people will say the only true way to OC is to bump the multiplier..some will say you have to bump the FSB. Then there's the small group who say it's better to lower the multiplier enough so you can bump the FSB a lot more. in any case you just gotta find what method you can squeeze the most power out of without heat issues.

[xmetal2001]

Is only being able to change the front side bus a bad thing? How would changing the frequency directly be any different.

The multiplyer has been locked on almost all Intel chips for quite some time now, so you just have to accept only being able to change the FSB. Unless of course you have an engineering sample, but I think you would know if you did :)

It hasn't stopped people from gettin amazing overclocks on their Intel chips.

[Jeremizzle]

I have sucessfully oveerclocked my CPU to 3.51ghz. I tested it using the record temperature feature in ASUS probe while playing Raven Shield on all high settings. The CPU temperature dwindeled around 50C, and i did notice a big change in speed. Thanks to everyone who helped me with this.