I'm so bored.

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[gvblake22]

What's so funny? I had a Barton 2500+ back in the day, it was the first processor I ever overclocked (thankfully it was unlocked). I don't think I got it too high though, it was quickly replaced with a mobile 2600+ which did almost 2.6GHz on air.

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My overclock via speedfan crashed so I decided to go into the BIOS and tweak some settings. I am pretty sure I am at the cap my motherboard can push, or can I go higher than 200FSB if I increase voltage? If I go higher, it fails.

[gvblake22]

Don't overclock a processor through Windows, you'll almost always get better reliability and success going exclusively through the BIOS. If your temps are within check, you can always try increasing the voltage a bit. Be careful going much past about 10% above stock though (can't remember what stock voltage was on these things).

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wondering if I should get some CPUz shots from my Athlon XPM 2600+, XP3000+ and Pentium4 1.8GHz with RDRAM....

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I am sitting at about 45C Idle, and 48C under heavy load.

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heres 2 of mine:

[One4yu2c]

IIRC, you're about at the tip of what the Barton series was capable of on most air cooling setups. At 2.2GHz, there's probably not much headroom left.

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Originally Posted by One4yu2c

IIRC, you're about at the tip of what the Barton series was capable of on most air cooling setups. At 2.2GHz, there's probably not much headroom left.

Unless I can take my motherboard beyond it's 'rated' 200 max FSB. I can go further in my BIOS, but as I said, it insta-reboots.

[simple_inhibition]

Originally Posted by One4yu2c

IIRC, you're about at the tip of what the Barton series was capable of on most air cooling setups. At 2.2GHz, there's probably not much headroom left.

unless you went with mobile barton's which were cherry picked because they could run at 1.45v and had an unlocked multiplier