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"AMD overclocking"

anyone got an athlon K7/thunderbird or xp chip and are scared to overclock them, well post your worries here and me and the guys will try to reasure you of the benafits of overlclocking.

C.b.

Hm, poke some punctuation in to that hand..

AMD CPUs do tend to overclock much better, but it's dependant on the individual core - each batch performs different, with the AXIA being one of the most famous and htting regular 50% overclocks (1ghz > 1.5ghz).

Never tried an intel, but the principle is as colbakes said, pump up the FSB and see how far it can go. I've seen Intel systems with 192mhz fsb (which is far higher than any AMD box I know of), but many other components will fail before the CPU. Changing the FSB affects all of the parts in your PC, so if any of your PCI cards, USB headers and RAM modules can't take it, it will halt on boot.

All chips can be "OVERCLOCKED", there are 2 ways of overclocking, the first is raising the processors multiplier all intel cpu's have there multiplier locked and cant really be overclocked this way, also athlon cpu's are locked up to 1.2 ghz thunderbird cpu's but they are easily unlocked, the k7 chip uses a special device to change the multiplier and voltage and the athlon thunderbird 1.1 or below can be unlocked using a pencil (it really does work) thunderbird 1.2 or above are already unlocked and can be overclocked by an average of about 200 mhz. and athlon XP chip can also be unlocked (this is more complicated but easy) AMD cpu's are best for multiplier overclocking, if you have an intel chip the best way to overclock these is by running the front side bus above it's stated speed (i.e. you have a pentium 3 800 mhz which runs at 100 mhz front side bus and has a multiplier of 8 to acheive 800 mhz if you was to raise the front side bus to 110 mhz the cpu speed will now be 880mhz) there is one thing that can stop this and that is ram speed it may not be able to go much higher than it's stated speed of 66mhz 100mhz or 133mhz. i would only use AMD cpu's to overclock.

WHAT CPU ARE YOU PLANNING ON OVERCLOCKING

C.b.
p.s. Sorry about the essay but my typing hand went into overdrive, it's still going, I CAN@T STOP HHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLPPPPPPPPPPP.

can any chips be overclocked?

anyone got an athlon K7/thunderbird or xp chip and are scared to overclock them, well post your worries here and me and the guys will try to reasure you of the benafits of overlclocking.

C.b.