I'm new to overclocking. I have a few questions regarding overclocking.
1) I saw many people unlocked their Athlon XP CPU, and then set the cpu with a lower multiplier and increased the FSB. Is it true that increasing the multiplier will result an extremely hot and unstable system? But if I set the cpu multiplier higher and increase the FSB a little bit, wouldn't it perform better and more stable since I will not overclock the AGP and PCI buses too much?
2) I saw some articles say that AMD Athlon XP 1600-1900 share the same core. They should be identical to each other except their locked multipliers. If a person can overclocked a unlocked Athlon XP 1600 to Athlon XP 1900, then why would that person buy a AMD Athlon XP 1900 for overclocking? I'm curious.
3) If I want to overclock an unlocked Athlon XP 1900(1.6 GHz) to 2000MHz. What motherboard, cpu heatsink, and RAM should I use? I am thinking of getting a ABIT KX7-333R motherboard, Thermaltake Volcano 7+, and 512 MB Xtreme DDR PC2700. And what VCore and VMem should I use for this setup?
4) What is the Athlon XP stepping(AGOIA)? Where can I buy a AGOIA cpu?
Please give me any comments/suggestions. Thanks! :hammer:
1) I saw many people unlocked their Athlon XP CPU, and then set the cpu with a lower multiplier and increased the FSB. Is it true that increasing the multiplier will result an extremely hot and unstable system? But if I set the cpu multiplier higher and increase the FSB a little bit, wouldn't it perform better and more stable since I will not overclock the AGP and PCI buses too much?
2) I saw some articles say that AMD Athlon XP 1600-1900 share the same core. They should be identical to each other except their locked multipliers. If a person can overclocked a unlocked Athlon XP 1600 to Athlon XP 1900, then why would that person buy a AMD Athlon XP 1900 for overclocking? I'm curious.
3) If I want to overclock an unlocked Athlon XP 1900(1.6 GHz) to 2000MHz. What motherboard, cpu heatsink, and RAM should I use? I am thinking of getting a ABIT KX7-333R motherboard, Thermaltake Volcano 7+, and 512 MB Xtreme DDR PC2700. And what VCore and VMem should I use for this setup?
4) What is the Athlon XP stepping(AGOIA)? Where can I buy a AGOIA cpu?
Please give me any comments/suggestions. Thanks! :hammer:
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