Question About Overclocking
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dustinyo
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if you don't want to use extra cooling, then you probably won't overclock it very far go to www.athlonoc.com for some good guides and things like that
Hannibal Barca
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Most Duron and Athlon stock fans can handle Durons and Athlons up to 1GHz as long as there's good case cooling. I'd say you could try running your Duron at about 850MHz - 900MHz and if everything's stable, you should get a better heatsink and fan and see if you can get above 1GHz.
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Most Duron and Athlon stock fans can handle Durons and Athlons up to 1GHz as long as there's good case cooling. I'd say you could try running your Duron at about 850MHz - 900MHz and if everything's stable, you should get a better heatsink and fan and see if you can get above 1GHz.
I'd say 1000mhz if you got good cooling. Since the Duron 700 is multiplier locked, you have to o/c with the fsb (well unless you connect the bridges on the cpu with pencil, conductive pen, etc...). Simply bumping the fsb to 133mhz (make sure pci and agp divider is correct) will get you to 931mhz with no problems with other components because your pci and agp devices will still be in spec. Though very often they can be run out of spec.
Like Hannibal said, 850mhz is probably safe though you'd have to check your temperatures and stability. If you really do want to o/c, look into a new hsf. You can get a good one for around $25.
Like Hannibal said, 850mhz is probably safe though you'd have to check your temperatures and stability. If you really do want to o/c, look into a new hsf. You can get a good one for around $25.
billyhansome
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Just get extra cooling
Just get extra cooling
Get a Card Cooler XT and run with the side that the XT is on off. It'll only cosst $30 and can to a lot. Or, if you don't want to pay anything, just run with one side off.
Just get extra cooling
Get a Card Cooler XT and run with the side that the XT is on off. It'll only cosst $30 and can to a lot. Or, if you don't want to pay anything, just run with one side off.
I've got an early Duron 650 which has the multiplier unlocked by default 
Anyway when i still had the stock heatsink i could get to 800 Mhz
easily (with no vcore increase) I had it running at 7x111 for a very long time at default voltage (1.5). I think it was at about 50c.
Now, with my fop32 i find that the upper limit on MY duron is 900-950 Mhz. However, as alot of people on this board can tell you. The duron can hit between 1000-1100 Mhz
First you should check your to see when it was made.(as the later Duron's are generally clocking higher then the earlier ones)
Also the default vcore has been raised to 1.6V with the newer ones.
So, I think it is safe to say you can hit 900 Mhz (not considering any bus limitations) with a stock heatsink and maybe a bit of vcore adjustment.
Anyway when i still had the stock heatsink i could get to 800 Mhz
easily (with no vcore increase) I had it running at 7x111 for a very long time at default voltage (1.5). I think it was at about 50c.
Now, with my fop32 i find that the upper limit on MY duron is 900-950 Mhz. However, as alot of people on this board can tell you. The duron can hit between 1000-1100 Mhz
First you should check your to see when it was made.(as the later Duron's are generally clocking higher then the earlier ones)
Also the default vcore has been raised to 1.6V with the newer ones.
So, I think it is safe to say you can hit 900 Mhz (not considering any bus limitations) with a stock heatsink and maybe a bit of vcore adjustment.
WaterPlanet
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hey guys, just yesterday when I had my case open and stuff, I had an urge to o'c my duron 700. Not saying that it's not fast enough (not that it is that fast anymore, but still acceptable), but I was just purely curious. So, I found out that my duron was locked, so I grabbed a pencil and connected the L1 bridges. Inserted my duron back, put my HS and Fan back on, went to bios, and I started to play around with the multiplier settings. After a few reboots, I was able to find out that my processor will not go anymore than 850mhz. Whether it be manual setting or auto setting (just playing around with the multipliers) it would not go higher than 850mhz. Is that normal? Common sense tells me not, b/c you guys have mentioned that a duron can hit 1.1ghz with proper cooling, but should hit 900mhz with stock HS and fan. So, am I doing something wrong? Should I fiddle around with the FSB? Maybe I penciled the L1 bridges wrong. I only connected the first two bridges (the first two starting from the left). Is this right or wrong? I'm not too familiar with OC'ing, but you know, I'm just curious. So, how should I go about then? I've checked a few tutorials, but they were mainly about oc'ing the FSB. But, I didn't know how to adjust the PCI to balance with what I adjust with the FSB, so I didn't do much in that department.
Thanks a bunch.
Thanks a bunch.
billyhansome
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FSB
FSB
Raise the FSB. Play with the dividers around a bit, I do not know too much about the PCI/AGP dividers or what. Did you set the voltage settings to 1.85 for the Duron? If not, do it and you have a higher range to overclock to. Again, just get a Card Cooler XT and make a case mod to make sure you get the airflow that the Card Cooler XT needs or just run without the side panel.
FSB
Raise the FSB. Play with the dividers around a bit, I do not know too much about the PCI/AGP dividers or what. Did you set the voltage settings to 1.85 for the Duron? If not, do it and you have a higher range to overclock to. Again, just get a Card Cooler XT and make a case mod to make sure you get the airflow that the Card Cooler XT needs or just run without the side panel.
WaterPlanet
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ok, i've raised the core voltage to 1.85 and the I/O is set to default (3.3v i believe) and I am able to go 850mhz. What's the secret to go 900mhz? I'm still in the same boat except i am able to boot into win98 this time around. Thanks, Billy, for the little tidbit to raise the voltage. In actual fact, I was able to go to 850, but Windows just wouldn't boot up. So, raising the core voltage has solved my problem...partially.
So, besides adjusting with the multipliers and fiddling around the that pci/agp divider stuff, will I be able to hit 900mhz by just adjusting the multiplier settings with my default HS and fan?
So, besides adjusting with the multipliers and fiddling around the that pci/agp divider stuff, will I be able to hit 900mhz by just adjusting the multiplier settings with my default HS and fan?
WaterPlanet
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yea, i set the voltage to 1.85...higher than what you just mentioned. So far, i've managed to pull off to 900mhz (893mhz to be exact 8.5x103 or something like that). It ran pretty stable. I was able to play CS fine for hours. my cpu temp was at 47 degrees celsius. up 2 degrees when I had it at 850. not bad. This was done with using the default HS and fan. I tried to use a multiplier of 9, but it would default back to 700 (7x100). How do I overcome the hurdle?
Actually, the highest I've gotten was 910mhz (8.5x105). If I set it to 8.5x107, the system would not boot and I had to reset the jumpers to wipe out the cmos settings. So, what can I do now? Is that the highest that the duron will go?
Actually, the highest I've gotten was 910mhz (8.5x105). If I set it to 8.5x107, the system would not boot and I had to reset the jumpers to wipe out the cmos settings. So, what can I do now? Is that the highest that the duron will go?