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[djbeenie]

Question: I have a (Barton)Athlon XP 3000 400FBS. A motherboard and memory that can hold 400FBS. I have it overclocked at 200 FBS at the moment, running about 2.2 ghz. It seems stable. Is it possible to raise it to the 400 FBS max?

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[franklin97355]

Try it and see.

 

[paparazi]

djbeenie
?? 400fsb CPU overclocked at 400fsb??? That's default standard speed.
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[djbeenie]

I'm not sure what you mean. My bios says im running at 200 mhz.

Here this might help you out.

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?pcm=1733487

So it is not running default at 400 FSB. I can jack it up to 400.

I am just wondering if it was safe to do that. This is my first overclocking. I do not want to ruin my new PC.

Regards,
Bryan



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[cdogg]

djbeenie,
No it is not safe to just "jack" it up. 200MHz is the rated speed that your system supports. You haven't taken into account that the FSB is double-pumped, meaning data is sent on the upside and downside of each clock cycle. Theoretically, twice as much data is being sent giving it the effective clock speed equivalent to 400MHz, although it's still only at 200MHz.

That's just the way they advertise that feature. It's typical for DDR memory and other architectures like Intel's 800MHz FSB, which is really just 200MHz quad-pumped. There's plenty of literature all over the net...google search it.

Just in case you are still going to attempt to overclock (moving the FSB incrementally 1 or 2MHz at a time), this is not the right site to discuss it. As with the concept, there are plenty of resources all over - all you have to do is search.


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[djbeenie]

Ahh ok I understand now. Thank you so much for you help.

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