Ok first things first, Hi. As you can gather I'm new here and also new to the overclocking business. I've had a search thru the forums and gleaned some know how but I just know that you folks are full of knowledge and won't mind sharing it again even if it has been covered before ( please feel free to direct me to any links that you feel will help if you prefer not to repeat yourselves.)
Now my problem. Bought a 2600+ and an Asus KT400 at the back end of last year and had no problem with the build as my rudimentary knowledge is quite good and I have an old networking degree. Now the bios set the clock speed and multiplyer by default and I have a perfectly happy system running at 1917mhz and that's the problem. I know that the clock speed should be between 2.08ghz and 2.18ghz.
The bios allows lots of settings in auto and manual mode and the stepping is very controllable but I'm a pansy when it comes to messing with it. When I tried on a number of occasions to use the auto settings to up the clock speed to a speed within the cpu's reported clock I have always got a system crash on reboot that is always so severe that it ruins the file structure of XP and nothing short of a clean install will work and then I'm back to 1.917ghz as the only stable setting. Due to this I have been loathe to mess with it.
So, I'm au fait with hardware and have built over 100 systems over the years, OC is where I'm clueless due to a lack of never learning, I'm hoping to change that from today. (The last thing I OC was a PII 400 back in the day when it was THE Ninja PC but I've tried nothing since.)
Firstly I just want to get this system running at the manufacturers clock speed of 2.13ghz and then look at my OC options ( as I would need to review the cooling, I have the retail fan at the moment). This is where I hope you all can help. I'll post as much info on the cpu and board/bios and hopefully you brainboxes will advise me. Here's hoping.
Now for the motherboard report. *Aida goes a bit silly here and reports my cpu wrongly as a 2500+ but it's definately a Barton 2600+ as it was retail in the box.. I`ll post it tho as it may be relevant. The actual settings in the bios ( default by bios on build) are:-
1917mhz 11.5 X 166/33 @ 1.65V ( the auto options for clock speed are 1150, 1533, 1917 and 2300 the multiplyer is not changeable in auto )
Ok then folks, educate me. I hope that's enough information and I'm sorry it's a bit of a laborious post but I'd rather get it right than have people complaining that I've not followed forum guidelines ( which would be a first for me). As I said I've not messed with the manual settings as I am sick of having to install XP again but I expect someone out there understands where I'm going wrong.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated and I know most of you are in the US so I'll wait patiently for any answers.
Now my problem. Bought a 2600+ and an Asus KT400 at the back end of last year and had no problem with the build as my rudimentary knowledge is quite good and I have an old networking degree. Now the bios set the clock speed and multiplyer by default and I have a perfectly happy system running at 1917mhz and that's the problem. I know that the clock speed should be between 2.08ghz and 2.18ghz.
The bios allows lots of settings in auto and manual mode and the stepping is very controllable but I'm a pansy when it comes to messing with it. When I tried on a number of occasions to use the auto settings to up the clock speed to a speed within the cpu's reported clock I have always got a system crash on reboot that is always so severe that it ruins the file structure of XP and nothing short of a clean install will work and then I'm back to 1.917ghz as the only stable setting. Due to this I have been loathe to mess with it.
So, I'm au fait with hardware and have built over 100 systems over the years, OC is where I'm clueless due to a lack of never learning, I'm hoping to change that from today. (The last thing I OC was a PII 400 back in the day when it was THE Ninja PC but I've tried nothing since.)
Firstly I just want to get this system running at the manufacturers clock speed of 2.13ghz and then look at my OC options ( as I would need to review the cooling, I have the retail fan at the moment). This is where I hope you all can help. I'll post as much info on the cpu and board/bios and hopefully you brainboxes will advise me. Here's hoping.
- Processor Properties:
- Version AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2600+
- External Clock 166 MHz
- Maximum Clock 2250 MHz
- Current Clock 1916 MHz
- Voltage 1.6 V
- CPUID Revision 06A0h
- Extended CPUID Revision 07A0h
Now for the motherboard report. *Aida goes a bit silly here and reports my cpu wrongly as a 2500+ but it's definately a Barton 2600+ as it was retail in the box.. I`ll post it tho as it may be relevant. The actual settings in the bios ( default by bios on build) are:-
1917mhz 11.5 X 166/33 @ 1.65V ( the auto options for clock speed are 1150, 1533, 1917 and 2300 the multiplyer is not changeable in auto )
- Motherboard:
- Motherboard Name Asus A7V8X
- Motherboard Chipset VIA VT8377 Apollo KT400
- BIOS Properties: ASUS A7V8X-X ACPI BIOS Revision 1006
- *CPU Type AMD Athlon XP-A, 1900 MHz (5.75 x 330) 2500+
Ok then folks, educate me. I hope that's enough information and I'm sorry it's a bit of a laborious post but I'd rather get it right than have people complaining that I've not followed forum guidelines ( which would be a first for me). As I said I've not messed with the manual settings as I am sick of having to install XP again but I expect someone out there understands where I'm going wrong.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated and I know most of you are in the US so I'll wait patiently for any answers.