Just gor my new XP Barton 3000+ - now what?

[K-Raz]

I was like 10 years old again when the postman came with all my new hardware:

Athlon XP 3000 (Barton, 333 FSB)
RaidMax Cobra-822 Case (http://raidmax.com/products/products...7&cID=1&pID=43)
ThermalRight SLK 947U
80mm Aluminium Fan

It actually took me a while getting everything into the new case - mostly because og the heatsink and fan was a bit trickzy to get installed through the mobo.

I've had it running for 24 hours now, CPU at a 100% load (Seti@Home) temps are: CPU: 45, Case 32 (24 in the room - to hot, i know)

I tried overclocking it today - with a lot of CMOS-resets

It seems i've got one of the multiplyer-locked Bartons, always runs at 13x
The highest I got the FSB today was 175, but i want it to run at 200... since my Samsung DDR-333 runs fine at that speed, they are actually running 400Mhz right now, in dual channel mode (CL 3).
But as soon as i crank the CPU FSB up to 200, it gives me the siren and wont boot
I haven't changed the voltage yet, but i bet that's the setting i need to change, right?

Oh, yeah - the motherboard is an Epox 8RDA+ (nForce2)
Current setting:
CPU: 13x166 (2158 - 3000+)
RAM: 200 (Dual channel, 7-3-3, CL3)

[jameco]

wow, some case!!

i'd put wheels and a tailpipe on it, and cruise for some chicks [girls]

[K-Raz]

*LOL* - good idea
The best part is that the "eyes" on the cobra are actually the HD-LED - so they flash in _very_ bright red when reading data...
...and the paint job is awesome - I'll post some pics when i have the time to figure out how

[elmers]

"I tried overclocking it today - with a lot of CMOS-resets"

I know the feeling. Spent the whole night with a pair of tweezers.

[byunews]

Try to pump the voltage up a notch. 175*13 is certainly nothing to be ashamed about, but with those temperatures, it would be a sin not to overclock higher

[John Prophet]

I know the feeling. Spent the whole night with a pair of tweezers.

get one of those long jumpers with the little handle on it.

[Hungrycookpot]

Originally Posted by John Prophet

get one of those long jumpers with the little handle on it.

OOOOOOWHAAAA? they make those? sweet! where and how much can i get one? (for) that would be very useful for the cmos reset, very useful indeed....

[Gilthanaz]

Sounds useful, I'd like to find me some of those as well, especailly for my hard drives which i move around a lot.

[K-Raz]

Any suggestions as to what i should set voltage to?

[jmichna]

13.0 x 200 is 2600mHz... that's really pushing an over clock on a Barton 3000 (default speed is 2167mHz). You can expect to achieve at least 2300mHz with air cooling a modest voltage tweaks (I can run mine at 2340 with just a 0.15v bump up in vcore), but to get much beyond that range you would need to invest in some other, more expensive forms of cooling (water-cooling, phase-change, Peltier, etc.)