Overclocking athlon 3200

[mtown_onsite]

I'm thinking of trying to overclock my AthlonXP 3200 Barton 400fsb. Mobo- epox 8kra2+, 1gb pc3200 ram.

From what I've read, this is not an extremely overclockable chip. But I should be able to get atleast some gain from it. I was wondering if anybody here has any experience OCing this particular chip.

....and yes, I have plenty of cooling...

 

[gotrootdude]

Since that is a KT600 chipset, your AGP bus isn't locked. Because of this, they normally don't OC to over a fsb of 215. Your multiplier is 11, your true speed is 2200mhz. Therefore, if you did by chance get it up to 215 fsb, your true speed would be 2365mhz or a gain of 165mhz.

If you do the math 3200+/2200 * 2365 = 3440mhz or slightly better than 3400+.

As I said, your most likely NOT going to reach this speed. You'd be risking messing up the board/cpu/hardware for a approx 200mhz increase in performance.

It's not worth it. You'd get better performance results focusing on updating or OCing the video card, or setting up a raid aray on it.

 

[mtown_onsite]

Already have a sata raid0 array. Thinking of adding an ide raid1.

Vid card is a radeon 9800se. Any advice for OCing it?

 

[gotrootdude]

http://www.techpowerup.com/atitool/

 

[mtown_onsite]

thanks. that should work nicely.

mike

 

[rosh325]

Just wondering, what warnings would you have for using this? I have a sapphire 9600..which has a heatsink but no fan. Right now I can play doom 3 in medium settings..would this kick me up a setting?