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i recently received and helped build my newest pc... my first time doing so... so i dont have a whole lot of experience with these things. I found an article (also recently) by MaximumPC in their PC HOW-TO Guide about overclocking Athlon Xp's. The article talks about overclocking the FSB of a 1.67 XP2000+ with an Asus A7V333 motherboard to 1.73 clock speeds... without a fan. They boosted the CPU/PCI Frequency from 33MHz to 35. Now according to them their mobo provided a stable platform for the task but "most any motherboard will do." Also "Though our rig used DDR333 SDRAM, it's unlikely that 266MHz memory would have had any trouble running at 276MHz."...
What im wondering is what you folks think about doing this and about the long term effects if any?
Currently i'm running an AthlonXP 2000+ with an Asus A7V266-C mobo and 512mb DDR-SDRAM (DIMM Synchronous DRAM 512mb/72... unsure of what that means exactly). I followed the overclocking procedures as explained and am now running at 1.73 clock speeds as assessed by SiSoftare. I run this computer pretty much constantly too and i just have the normal case fans... Will i be ok? Or should i start buying up more fans?
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What im wondering is what you folks think about doing this and about the long term effects if any?
Currently i'm running an AthlonXP 2000+ with an Asus A7V266-C mobo and 512mb DDR-SDRAM (DIMM Synchronous DRAM 512mb/72... unsure of what that means exactly). I followed the overclocking procedures as explained and am now running at 1.73 clock speeds as assessed by SiSoftare. I run this computer pretty much constantly too and i just have the normal case fans... Will i be ok? Or should i start buying up more fans?
ok thats all
Drift
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