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Old February 17th 04, 11:39 PM
Luke P
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Hello all,

I'm thinking of building a new PC with the AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton
and overclocking it to a 3200+. It's the first time I will have built
an overclocked PC and I am buying this processor becuase I don't see
the point in paying £150 when you can just pay £50 and get the same
speeds. That gives me an extra £100 to get a cool graphics card .
Anyway, all of the forum threads and stuff I have read about
overclocking the 2500+ have been written in 2002 and 2003 and I am
wondering if AMD have got wise about people having 3200+ speeds
without them having an extra £100 in their bank account and locked the
FSB of the processor somehow or dicreased it's ability to overclock.

I just want to do a simple FSB overclock to 200mhz. The computer will
have this hardwa

Athlon XP 2500+ Barton
Asus A7N8X Deluxe v2.0
A single stick of Samsung 512 Pc3200 RAM
Seagate Barracuda SATA 80gb
Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb

For cooling I am thinking about 2xAntec Double Ball Bearing 8mm Fans,
Thermaltake Volcano 12 HSF and Coolermaster Premium Thermal Compound.

I just want an overclocker's opinion on what I have planned and if I
have enough cooling and if my first overclocking attempt will work .
Can I plz have a quick answer to my question a bit up the page about
AMD locking the FSB (if that is actually possible) sneaked in too .

Thanks a bunch,
Luke
 




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