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Overclocking the AMD athlon 2400+
« on: January 29, 2012, 10:10:12 pm »
Hi. I have 2GB of RAM being shipped to my house ATM and while I'm in the mood of upgrading an old PC... I thought it might be fun to overclock the CPU (If its possible without extensive cooling systems).

So...

MY SPECS:
eMachines T2482 with stock motherboard and fans
AMD Athlon 2400+ (2.0GHz)
512MB RAM (2GB on the way, the most my board will recognise)
510MB Swap/Virtual Memory

Ubuntu 11.10/WinXP Pro


Can I OC this without replacing the fans? Is there a linux program to check CPU temp at 100%? Will my BIOS let me OC?

Is it worth it?

I only want to OC it to about 2.3GHZ or so.
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Re: Overclocking the AMD athlon 2400+
« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2012, 11:31:51 pm »
http://devforums.amd.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=23&threadid=12543
Reading that it says you shouldnt overclock the multiplier much/at all
Theres also some links for how to do it I think
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Re: Overclocking the AMD athlon 2400+
« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2012, 01:02:17 pm »
I thought I read that the 2400+ OC's nicely at 30%... Maybe I'm wrong.
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Re: Overclocking the AMD athlon 2400+
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2012, 10:58:52 pm »
You are using an oem motherboard, the overclock option should be unavailable, do prove me wrong though.
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Re: Overclocking the AMD athlon 2400+
« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2012, 07:30:17 am »
IIRC many AMD chipsets have the option to overclock out of the box. I think many of them are underclocked from the factory. You'd have to check to see what is the suggested "safe area" without over heating. Never done this myself, just going off of memory. Keep us updated with your progress. ;)
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