Overclocking Athlon 2500+

Mutant_Fruit

How far can this be safely overclocked using stock cooling? I'm not interested in spending 100's on super high-tech cooling, i'm a cheapass.

If anyone has better ideas as to what processor i should get that overclocks well on stock cooling dish em out. I want Cheap and Fast and AMD.

deckie27

Mutant
What type of board and memory(make&speed) have you got?

I had a 2500 to test for an evening and got it up to 2200mhz fairly easily using an old cooler. One for about €20 would be sufficent for high o/c best stuff is needed for extremme o/c

Dec

Mutant_Fruit

oops, i forgot to say waht mobo... here we go anyway:

Abit NF7 V2.0 for my new mobo (as it goes up to 400mhz fsb) and
PC3200 512MB

deckie27

In a hurry
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Dec

Col_Loki

The new Xp2500's will do between 2.2ghz & 2.5ghz depending on luck , cooling & your other components like PSU. Personally i wouldnt be overclocking much on stock cooling. Spend a few quid on a decent cooler & 2.1 - 2.2ghz ish should be stable.

Mutant_Fruit

by "new ones" do you mean the ones with Barton core?

Col_Loki

By "new ones" i mean the newer steppings. All the Xp2500's have a barton core.

Mutant_Fruit

oops, ok. i'll let ya's know how i get on when i get mine.(hopefully soon)