an old overclock finally died, almost 10 years @ 50% overclock

Matt82 · 2 Mar 2011 at 12:50

years ago i put together a (then new) AMD Athlon XP xp2500 on an ABIT NF7 and promptly wound it up to 2.4ghz

it has run like that for years. temps were safe, it was a good overclock, prime stable etc.

it had been running a bit buggy and i thoguht it needed a window rebuild.

the other night it crashed all together. on boot it runs POST but stops at DMI pool data

both HDDs are still accessible (on another machine) so im guessing it was running bad and corrupted HDD1's windows install.

i think it shows that with a bit of OCing you can make a machine that will last 10 years, even if its only capable of web brousing now due to sheer lack of fire power.

surely it makes it cost effective?

Jokester · 2 Mar 2011 at 12:52

Tried it at stock, probably still stable at default speeds?

Mr Gimp · 2 Mar 2011 at 12:54

I've still got an XP M Barton chip running at 2700 MHz on an NF7-S Rev 2 that's yet to die

Some odd USB issues on one port admittedly, but other than that it's still soldiering on!

Matt82 · 2 Mar 2011 at 13:06

Jokester said:
Tried it at stock, probably still stable at default speeds?

very tempted (stock for that thing was always 2ghz) but ill test it at 166x11 and see.

id hate to think how slow it would be at that speed :eek:

Krellor · 2 Mar 2011 at 16:27

How is this a 50% overclock?
If stock is 2ghz, then 50% would be 1ghz?
So you would be running at 3ghz, or am I missing something?

tom_e · 2 Mar 2011 at 16:42

Krellor said:
How is this a 50% overclock?
If stock is 2ghz, then 50% would be 1ghz?
So you would be running at 3ghz, or am I missing something?

The stock speed is 1883Mhz but pretty much all of them would run at 2Ghz straight off with most getting up to 2.3-2.4Ghz no problem.

Hagar · 2 Mar 2011 at 17:01

My 1700+ (1466MHz) 11 x 133 Thoroughbred ran a 50% OC for over five years at 2.2GHz with a 200MHz fsb, it was a bit noisy though with a 70mm delta fan on a thermalright SLK-800A copper heatsink running up to 5000rpm. Abit motherboard.
I had two of them, bought from OCUK for about £40 each new but one did blow through excessive heat and volts. Great CPU's for the day.

Krellor · 2 Mar 2011 at 17:41

OK if stock is 1883mhz.
50% of 1883 is 941.
So a 50% OC would be 1883mhz+941mhz=2824mhz. Yeah?
BTW I've no idea about overclocks, but the math didn't look right.

Matt82 · 8 Mar 2011 at 11:45

hi there

firstly, its back alive, but being replaced.

i want to over clock another AMD, not sure if i wanna go Athlon or Phenom, any advice?

i may chuck a hybrid hdd in there too and the usual 4gb.

secondly, whoa there with the maths! i got the barton a long time ago. i thought the default clock speed was 1.6ghz. i ran it at 2ghz straight out the box, it never went slower than 200*11, i then settled at 2.4ghz. on 512mb it did run stable at 232*11 but never higher.

anyway, its alive again. sorted out the cooling (a ton of dust in there), took bios back to totally stock speed and voltage, formatted the HDD and reinstalled XP.

it ran prime over night so i might ramp it back upto 200*11.