CPU Speed...

[kantlivelong]

Here is my setup(Note: i havent purchased it yet but am planning to very soon)

Motherboard :GIGABYTE GA-7VT600 1394
Processer : AMD 2600+ Athlon XP Socket A
Power : 480 Watts
Ram : OCZ Basic Series 512MB DDR333 184Pin
CPU Cooler : http://www.swiftnets.com/products/H20-22500-0.asp


below is my fan setup

2 80mm - back
3 80mm - front
2 120mm - top (cooling rad)
1 40mm - ram
and then some undecided hard disk fans

my question is maybe from experience you can calculate the cpu speed i can overclock it to...

also my room temp can hit 80F on a warm day... but is freezing cold in winter(go figure)..

thanks for the help..

[sKiT]

Anyone can speculate. The same hardware often enough OC's at different speeds. Many variables are contributing factors in OC'ing successes all the way from the process in which components are mounted to mainboards to wether or not you decided to wear those ESD straps to install your hardware. No 2 PC's will OC the same. Start slowly and tweak away at it. Have patience.

[kantlivelong]

thanks . if someone was to tell me a speed i wouldnt go trying it right away anyways i just was looking for an estimate or from past experiece. i wasnt expecting anything to be acurate...
also how do i determine a good speed when testing.. i know temp is involved but whats to hot and whats to cold etc etc..?

[JPMiller]

Too cold really isn't something we have to worry about...you want to shoot for as low a temp as possible ....but rule of thumb is 30's and 40's are optimum....50 to 60 wont do any real damage....but 60 and upward are not desirable.

[Xtreeme]

You'll get 2.2gig easy enuff. 2.4gig will take some vcore and a really good HSF. Temp is one thing. But when you oclock thats not what you really watch at first. What you do is use prim95 and Sisoftsandre burn in usually tied up with memtest86 is oclocking mem too. I start with sandre since its quicker stress test. Then when I go as high as that will pass-I run Prim95. Then memtest to enusre mem is happy. First time you get error or crash you have two choices. You can A} lower oclock till stable again. B}check temps are O.K. then decide if you want to bump vcore to stablise it again or go hihger yet. Vcore you take up ONE setting at a time. Also keep in mind higher vcore directly relates to higher temps.

[kantlivelong]

thanks guys mostly everything has been cleared up for me :P now if only i could go get some nitrogen and freeze my cpu LOL i saw it in a magizine