2500 barton help

I've just got a xp2500+333 barton and can anyone tell me the best way to get past 2.3gb

I think some just won't go that high. Mine will go 11.5 x 200 but it takes a lot of voltage (more than I am comfortable with). 1.80v to get it to run on mine and it was not very stable.

Mine seems to be even more cranky, I have to take the voltage up to 1.875 to get to 2200 MHz (200 x 11) but if I drop the multiplier down to 10.5 I can bring the voltage down significantly. I don't know my stepping, but I think I got one of the less capable Bartons. Maybe you did too?

Wow, yours is really cranky. I can do 200 x 11 @1.75v. It seems others are better. I keep reading about people getting that on default voltage. Oh well, plenty fast for me anyway. I'm not even a gamer.

theboogieman said:

I've just got a xp2500+333 barton and can anyone tell me the best way to get past 2.3gb

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Welcome to the forums.

I've moved this to the AMD CPU area, you should get more specific replys here.

Well I guess I got lucky!

I have been experimenting with my FSB and here are my findings:


230x10.0 (1.78v)
222x10.0 (1.65v) * Stable *

205x11.5 (1.78v)
208x11.0 (1.72v)

I am currently running 205 FSB @ 11.0

The 2500s seem to be a bit of luck of the draw right now. There really isn't a "super" stepping code that does phenomenal, but at the same time most of the recent ones do fairly well. I have an AQXEA 0323 MPMW that does 2200 at 1.6V or 2400 at 1.8V. Almost doesn't make sense to juice it all the way to 1.8 for the extra 200MHz.

I am surprised that the UPEW one isn't doing a lot better, considering the theory that the "E" means better wafer quality, and its of the recent AQXEA stepping.

A good power supply and a great heatsink (SLK series) go a long way. Some people (myself included) thought they reached the limit of their CPU, and later discovered more OC'ing headroom after upgrading those two components.