Duron 800, KT7-Raid, FOP38, Arctic Silver stuff, How fast can I go? And what do I need to do?

[Cash]

Hi, I'm kinda new to this overclocking stuff. I just bought a new Duron 800,Abit KT7 Raid, FOP38, and sum of that Artic Silver compound stuff. :) I heard sumthing about "Unlocking" my proccessor? How do I do that. Also, does anyone here have any suggestions on what I should do when I try to overclock it? I havn't received all of the parts yet, so the system isn't together yet. I really am not sure what I should expect. Any suggestions/comments would be appreciated. Thanks :)

[zer0bot]

I remember when I knew nothing about overclocking. It wasn't too long ago. Hopefully this will help you.

First, unlocking the multiplier is done so you can ajust the the CPU speed in the BIOS. It's done by connecting the four L1 bridges. You can use a graphite pencil to do this, but a better way is to use a conductive ink pen. They can be found at good electronics stores (read:not Radioshack). The tip is usually too big to do the job so put the ink on a fine stylus. Use a shield to mask off the other bridges so you do not cross connect any of them. An thin metal eraser shield works well. Let the ink dry about 1 hour before moving on. The instructions say 10 minutes, but I like to extra sure.

Because Global Win HSs have poor mounting clips, a copper shim, IMO, should be used. The cheapest place to get a GOOD shim is crazypc.com (http://www.crazypc.com) . The surface of my Global Win HS was god awful and yours probably will be too. Lap the surface smooth. For details on this, check out some threads under the Cooling topic.

The Duron 800 and the KT7 have the reputation of being tops for overclocking. I would shoot for a FSB speed of 133. I've seen some benchmarks (and I can't remember where-it was when the Athlon first came out) that showed a performance decrease by running a bus speed between 101 and ~113 instead of the native 100. If I had a choice, I would rather have a multiplier of 8 and a 133 bus speed than a multiplier of 10 and a bus speed of 107. A faster FSB will make PCI and AGP buses run faster as well. To get your bus speed up to 133 go for Corsair CAS2 or even better, Mushkin RAM. No need in saddling your new speed demon with anything less than 256MB.

I think you can easily get to 1050-1130 Mhz. You are going to have to bump up the voltage for any kind of o/c to work. Do so in small increments and keep an eye on the temperature. Remember: Not all CPUs are created equal and overclocking is pointless if the computer is unstable. You will see a lot of folks who consider it a successful overclock if they can boot into Windows and get a quick snapshot of WCPUID before the system crashes. I assume you are a Windows user since no other operating system needs this kind of power. But that's another story.

Lastly, if you don't have a $80+ keychain/neclace you're not trying hard enough. :)

[hooziewhatsit]

hmmm... last time I checked, the kt133 chipset didn't really support any fsb over 115, or 120 if you're lucky. Don't get me wrong, you still have a great oc combo, What I would do is slowly increase the multiplier, when that gets unstable, back it down a step, then increase the fsb. you should easily be able to reach 900, and maybe a gig. don't be afraid to increase the voltage in small steps also, just be sure to keep an eye on your temps with something like motherboard monitor.