I Just Tried To Overclock My Pc...

[Livy]

i done that on my pc, went staright from 166 to 200 with no probs, with the ram at 166, but it was pretty unstable, i think it needed a bit mroe power, but i cant change the vcore.

athlon 2500 barton

[Smurfette]

I just changed the FSB from 133 stock to 166 and rebooted (before I put the case side cover back on just in case I had to clear CMOS) and it's been running fine n dandy for about 10 months now.

[bluedevil]

you're not stupid trying to overclock...but i think you wanted to much out of it thats why it wont boot...but now since you know how to reset the cmos.
you can actually find what you top is...just take it one step at a time...you cant get a max overclock in one day...it takes patience to do it right and find you best configuration...im not saying you should overclock..but if you are ever trying again be patience and take it a step at a time.

[Livy]

i cant boot above 169 ram clock, but i can boot all the way up to 200fsb, and maybe even more,

[DWk]

Originally posted by Cyonic@4 February 2004 - 17:43
I hope anyone reading this whos thinking bout' overclocking learns for my mistakes "read up about it first and don't work on trial and error work on knoledge".
I was so lucky not to have killed my pc and so retarded to have just jumped into overclocking in the first place.

It's nothing bad. What you just learned is something really important to actually KNOW your computer. Now next time I'm SURE you will be more cautious when dealing with stuff like this. I know I had to screw up (more than once ) to understand how stuff worked.

Rock on man

[Livy]

i thought i had knackered my old comp a while ago, it was a 350, and i changed i to 500 in bios, and it wouldnt post.

[bluedevil]

livy you should get some pc3200 ram thats runs 200mhz so you can have fsb&memory in sync it's the best way for amd prossesors

you will notice a big diference

[Livy]

Originally posted by bluedevil@5 February 2004 - 02:47
livy you should get some pc3200 ram thats runs 200mhz so you can have fsb&memory in sync it's the best way for amd prossesors

you will notice a big diference

i know, just not quite got the money, idont think it would work anyway as i will need to up the vcore to get it all the way to 200mhz, but it may well go up someway without needing more juice, and if the rams runing slow i could prob tighten up memory settings at least

[clocker]

Originally posted by bluedevil@4 February 2004 - 18:47
livy you should get some pc3200 ram thats runs 200mhz so you can have fsb&memory in sync it's the best way for amd prossesors

you will notice a big diference

You don't need PC 3200 RAM to do that.
My Mushkin PC2700 runs just fine synched at 200x11.5 at 2.5T,3,3,8.

Apparently, my pinned topic " The Principles of Overclocking" was removed too early. It would have helped you in this case.

Cyonic, you made the two classic nOOb mistakes here.
Firstly, you went to fast.
Secondly, you didn't know how to recover from an error.

Now that you know how to clear your CMOS ( and if you're going to continue overclocking you would benefit from installing a switch so you can do it without opening up the case and fiddling with jumpers...), spend some time reading about the process and develop a sense of patience.
If you do it right, safely OCing your machine will take days, not minutes.

Good luck.

[Virtualbody1234]

Originally posted by clocker@5 February 2004 - 09:12
Apparently, my pinned topic " The Principles of Overclocking" was removed too early. It would have helped you in this case.

The topic is still in the pinned area. Look in 'Hardware Guides'.