Athlon 2000+

[krooton]

My first solo bought and built machine was a poorly selected XP2400+, which were terrible for overclocking, and this was rectified by getting a lovely XP2500M.

I'm upgrading my housemate's aging machine from a 1.1Ghz Duron, to a 2000+ (Palomino, mobo supports it), and I was wondering if these chips had an history of decent overclocks?

 

[krooton]

Ah well, still a decent step up from a Duron

 

[krooton]

That was Thunderbirds, my XP2000 did not run hot, low 40's idle was normal them days and heatsinks were mostly 80mm or 90mm.

I have an old 80mm Sharkoon cooler which does a fine job, guess I'll just run it at stock, cheers guys

 

[krooton]

Yep definitely, wasn't the default vcore something like 1.75v? I had an XP1900+ and it certainly wasn't cool running!

Apparently 1.75, but CPU-Z has it at 1.68

Can't get the thing stable above 1.5Ghz, crappy PCChips mobo, but it's still a nice boost from the Duron