Why is it cold?

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• illuminati - Tuesday, December 16, 2003 - link

  Good.

• SeraphsSati - Tuesday, December 16, 2003 - link

  Yea it helps thanks

• illuminati - Tuesday, December 16, 2003 - link

  Not if you have a decent cooling solution. In fact, the newer retail bartons come with a decent heatsink that has a copper base. I would trust that heatsink assuming you apply it correctly with thermal compound. The temps I have been getting are around 46 degrees Celcius when overclocked at 11x200.
  
  Another point... and don't yell at me if this is a wrong assumption... but I have only heard of one CPU actually "burning"... and that was because the user did not set the heatsink correctly. But assuming you correctly seat your heatsink, your system will lockup or randomly restart well before the processor ever gets to its melting point. so if your system freezes hard... just reset the BIOS and put the FSB back to default, and everything will work like new.
  
  Overclocking really is not a scary thing once you do it a few times. And especially if you don't move the voltage up from default, chances are, you will be in the clear.
  
  Hope this helps... have fun! :)

• SeraphsSati - Tuesday, December 16, 2003 - link

  Illuminati but its very hot right? And chances are it might burn.

• illuminati - Tuesday, December 16, 2003 - link

  I believe all barton 2500+'s are unlocked if you find one that was made before week 39. I found out that zipzoomfly had a pretty good stock of week 34's... so I bought 5 last week! :)
  
  But yes... I also have a locked barton which runs at 11x200 (400FSB) at default voltage just fine. so 2.2GHz from a 2500+ without touching the volts is very common in my experience.

• HammerFan - Tuesday, December 16, 2003 - link

  Seraphs; most Barton 2500+ can be run on a 400 bus with a default multiplier with default voltage and defauly cooler. Also, all bartons come unlocked AFAIK.

• SeraphsSati - Monday, December 15, 2003 - link

  Case 1: XP 2500+
  A. Multiplier locked. FSB 333. Bump it up to 400. What do you change the voltage to?
  
  Case 2: XP 2500+
  B. Multiplier unlocked. Change FSB333 to 400. What should your multiplier be set at and voltage be set at?

• Anonymous - Monday, December 15, 2003 - link

  So you didn't mess around with the voltages? Just the FSB?

• Pete - Monday, December 15, 2003 - link

  I have a XP2600+ FSB333mhz OC @ FSB400mhz and it runs fine. You can also increase the multiplier which gave me XP3200+ and just using the standard fan supplied. Of course if you wish to run it 24h at such speed it would be wise to get a better cooler since under heavy stress and hot days the cpu gets very hot easily. I'm using ASUS's deluxe mobo with its temperature watch program. I also have a pretty decent power supply so it can give the CPU plenty of juice.

• Anonymous - Monday, December 15, 2003 - link

  Dear Anand,
  
  I asked all over the forums and couldn't get this question answered. Hopefully you could?
  
  Getting a 2500+ 333mhz FSB have DDR400, need to up the FSB to 400mhz so it will sync with the memory. Chances are the multiplier on the cpu will be locked so I need to know if lowering the voltage is better since I can't lower the multiplier. And to what voltage is safest?
  
  On other hand if its not locked obviously I should go with 10x200 multiplier to begin with and if its good I'll go to 10.5 at most.
  
  Hope you could help. :)