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hotshot743

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« on: March 12, 2004, 09:03:00 PM »
I have a 2500+ barton right now, that I want to overclock to 3200+ speeds. I can get a better heatsink/cpu since right now I have stock heatsink, which gives me around 50 degrees C under stress.

However, I have 512 megs of dual channel 2700 ram. I have been told to get the full results of overclocking to 3200+ speed, you need 3200 ram. Is this true, or will I still see a big difference between 2500 to 3200?
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« Reply #1 on: March 13, 2004, 08:25:00 AM »
QUOTE (hotshot743 @ Mar 12 2004, 10:03 PM)
I have a 2500+ barton right now, that I want to overclock to 3200+ speeds. I can get a better heatsink/cpu since right now I have stock heatsink, which gives me around 50 degrees C under stress.

However, I have 512 megs of dual channel 2700 ram. I have been told to get the full results of overclocking to 3200+ speed, you need 3200 ram. Is this true, or will I still see a big difference between 2500 to 3200?

I have a 2500+ Barton also with PC2700 DDR-Ram. I can get it up to 3200+ speeds and its friggin fast smile.gif You have to run the memory at a slower speed unless you can overclock it too. If you have a nForce2 Motherboard its fastest in 1:1, that's what I use just because when I overclock to 3200+ I have to turn my fan up high and it is loud.
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hotshot743

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« Reply #2 on: March 13, 2004, 02:52:00 PM »
What fan do you have, and where did you get it?
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« Reply #3 on: March 13, 2004, 07:09:00 PM »
Volcano 9 and Newegg.
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« Reply #4 on: March 19, 2004, 02:20:00 PM »
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IMO with a processor like that, i dont think the benefits of overclocking are that great. i would just leave it as is and be happy with what you have.


Really?? i've got a 2500 barton (1.83ghz default) running on aircooling with a thermalright sp-97 at 2.4 ghz. This is on a 218mhz fsb (436mhz DDR) and at these speeds it's totally stable (ran prime95 for 24hours) and outperforms pretty much any other cpu out there.

If you don't think that's worth the 100 bucks the chip cost then you need help....
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hotshot743

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« Reply #5 on: March 19, 2004, 07:08:00 PM »
Well i got a Thermaltake TR2-M2 and it has 3 settings. On medium, it runs about the same as my old heatsink, and on high (which is a little too loud for comfort, but tolerable. Box says high should be around 38 dBA) I had 100% cpu usage for 30 minutes and it topped off at 45 degrees when overclocked at 2.2 ghz. I used a generic silicone based thermal paste, but I was told that arctic silver 5 is by far the best thermal compound. If I scrape off the generic stuff and use arctic silver 5, will I notice that much of a difference?
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« Reply #6 on: March 19, 2004, 09:00:00 PM »
I have been overclocking intel cpu's for years but only people without brains would overclock an AMD as these bloody cpu's run hot even at there rate clock speed,If you want to over clock an AMD cpu then that is fine but the first thing here is to get a really good heatsink
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