Overclocked my xp2100+

[Cloud84]

I started messing around with the settings in the bios tonight. The stock setting was FSB- 133 Multi.- x13 and voltage- 1.60v

Here's what I have now using PC2700 set at 166mhz and a Volcano 10+ on the processor-

CPU FSB- 160mhz
Multiplier- x14
voltage- 1.625v

Which makes my processor go from xp2100+(1.73ghz) to 2.25ghz.

What do you think? I didn't mess around with the DDR voltage any, or the timings because I am a little unsure about those. Off the top of my head I remember the voltage for the memory being something like 2.52v. Don't remember what the timings were. I need to look around for a PC hardware monitoring utility so I can watch the temps as I have it in Windows...

Edit- typos

 

[TRUMPHENT]

The only thing that caught my eye is that you are running the memory asynchronously. If the mainboard supports 166mhz FSB, try that since you obviously can change the cpu multiplier.

Have you stress tested it yet? Prime95 etc.?


Which board are you using? There may be monitor utility on the installation CD. If you got the heatsink installed properly, you can get a baseline of temps while the computer is displaying the BIOS.

Speedfan seems to be a popular program.

 

[gwag]

why not do 166 X 13.5?

 

[imported_yetti]

ditto on the stress test.


motherboard monitor 5 is a good program.

 

[Cloud84]

I'm running an ABIT KD7 RAID motherboard. Well when I tried 166fsb with other settings it wouldn't post. First it wouldn't even go to 160 FSB but I got it to do that. Then I just kept upping the multiplier. When I tried running World of Warcraft it would crash on me. Said something about the memory. So I turned everything back to default settings and the game loaded up. I may mess with it some more when I get bored with it, dunno....

Edit-

Whooaaaa. I hit 2332mhz at the post screen. What I did was I was looking at the Ratio of FSB/AGP/PCI, it was set at 4:2:1. I couldn't get the FSB stable at 160, or even past that. So I set the ratio at 5:2:1, and then it let me set the FSB up to 166. Then I started raising the multiplier up x.5 at a time until I got to 166x14= 2332Mhz!! The only problem was when I saved, exited, and was letting windows come up, it blue screened me with an error stop code. So I set everything back to default and that's how I have it now. I was going to just leave it at 166x14 too because the next jump on the multiplier was 166x15 and I think that is just a little risky for my well being to attempt... So why would windows be acting up? First it told me it was missing a file- C:Windows/System/ntfs.sys or something like that. What's that mean? Whatever it was it's gone now that everything is back to default settings.