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

[Matt82]

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?

 

[Matt82]

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

 

[Matt82]

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.