Unlocking and overclocking Athlon XP 3200

[ShepsCrook]

You might want to look into one of these processors:
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1059267
He's got an Athlon XP-M 2500 for $65 shipped.

 

[kcnychief]

I would never buy a used CPU, that's my opinion.

 

[ShepsCrook]

Well, I've done it before and never had any problems. I've sold all of my CPU's to other people with no problems.

 

[kcnychief]

I'm not saying there would be any problems, just not something I'd do. It's technically the most important component, I like to know what the history of it is

 

[Don_X]

Just fitted the final upgrade to my Asrock K7VT6 mb, viz an AMD 3200+ which I was hoping to clock to about 2.5g.

Dissapointment, you bet , the multiplier on the MB (set to13.5x) not working and the BIOS manual overclock not stable (blue screen @210mhz).

Guess I'll just have to settle for the improved FSB. had the old XP2600 chugging along @ 2.16 Ghz too through the BIOS OC.

Unless anyone here knows different, but I dont fancy chiselling out valleys and all on this chip.

 

[Steevo]

Loosen your memory timings. Or provide more voltage to your ram. Make sure to keep your AGP and PCI bus locked.

 

[ShepsCrook]

More power! Yup, increase your voltage, make sure your fan and heatsink is of decent quality.

 

[zagnut]

Stable and can run Super Pi all day at 40 degress.

Don't ask how I got 2800, it's not worth it.

 

[zagnut]

Here's some motivation for all the 3200+ oc'ers.

Stable and can run Super Pi all day at 40 degress.

Don't ask how I got 2800, it's not worth it.

 

[NeilS]

I've been reading through this thread with interest. I think I may have accidentally unlocked my xp 3200!
I was refitting the heatsink when I dropped it onto the cpu, from a height of about 1 inch. After that the cpu would only run stable at 100 fsb and was recognised in BIOS and Sandra as an Athlon 1200. This was on a Gigabyte 7VT600P-RZ board, which only has a manual setting for 100 fsb, anything higher being auto detected. Am I right in thinking the multiplier should be 11x , not 12x ?
Anyway, I moved it to an ASRock K7S41 board, set the jumpers to 200 fsb, still no joy. But if I clock back to 180 in the bios it is recgnised as an xp 3000 and works fine. I can push it up to about 195 (about 2350 MHz) with no problem.
Am I mising something here or have I found a novel way of changing multipliers?