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From: Vink <vinksoft(a)xs4all.nl>
Sent: Feb 20, 2004 7:40 AM
To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com
Subject: Re: Platforms running Fedora
Jeff Ratliff wrote:
>My other Fedora system is a Athlon 2600+ (overclocked to 3000+
speeds) with
>a Geforce FX 5600 Ultra and 512 megs RAM.
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I have an Athlon 1600+ cpu, can I overclock that also? And how do you do
that?
It really depends on hardware (motherboard mostly). You can up the frontside bus speed in
the BIOS little by little until the system will no longer boot, then back it off a few
steps to get it stable. You need a motherboard that's designed for it, though. Also
realize that you will get lots more heat, may have to upgrade your cooling fan, and may
cause components to fail prematurely. I'd guess you may be able to get a few 100 more
MHz out of that chip, but it may not work at all. The reason I bought a 2600+ is I knew it
had lots of headroom since the same core is now doing close to 3000 MHz.
It's a complicated topic, too involved to discuss in detail here, and may not even
be worth the trouble. I'd suggest looking at
www.dansdata.com for starters, and
searching his articles for "overclock". If nothing else, you'll get a good
laugh as Dan is quite entertaining.