average athlon 2000+ overclock

hey i have a athlon xp 2000+ and just bought a water cooling system and was wondering what the average overclock on a xp 2000+ would be, and was wondering if i would have to unlock it?

http://www.cpudatabase.com/CPUdb/

Check there. You'll have to unlock the CPU to get a higher FSB. Unlocking is not the easiest thing to do with Palomino XPs.

I have the optons in my bios to push up the front side bus....does that mean that is unlocked and ready to go?

matt2364 said:

I have the optons in my bios to push up the front side bus....does that mean that is unlocked and ready to go?

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No, a chip doesn't have to be unlocked to increase the front side bus (FSB). You could increase your FSB now if you wanted to for an increase in speed.

However, to acheive a decent overclock, you would have to unlock your chip in order to lower your multiplier. This in turn would allow the FSB to reach higher speeds than you would do at the default multipler setting.


You 2000+ runs at 133 (FSB) X 12.5 (multiplier) = 1666MHz

I dont know the maximum your chip could do but 200 X 9 = 1800MHz should be a reasonable target as this would give you much faster performance than a 2200+ and close to 2400+

Sorry if I was confusing. Didn't mean you would have to unlock the CPU just to pump up the bus.

Like Kochanski explained, you'll have to unlock it to lower the multiplier to get a much higher FSB.

my max overclock is 1925. my stable overclock and benchable is 1893. http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=5129213