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Can't overclock amd 2800+
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srtbuddha
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16. February 2010 @ 18:35 |
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SO check it out I got a CPU from ebay (yeah I know what was I thinking). Moving on, what I am trying to do is make the best of my emachine to give it to my brother. I put a new HDD in, max the Ram to 2gigs, and well put in a new CPU. Now, when order the it was advertised as 2.1ghz cpu. When i installed the cpu I'm registering a cheesy 1.7ghz. I contact the seller he's telling me that i need to overclock it. I went into the Bios, guess what can't change anything, MOBO doesnt support it. What I'm looking for now is some alternate options. Don't tell to get a new computer or build, cause that is what I'm doing after this one!!
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17. February 2010 @ 15:53 |
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Sorry, but you are SOL.
Not going to bang you on all of the "why didn't you . . " toom many to list.
If the mobo doesn't have adjustable clock settings, you're stuck.
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srtbuddha
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17. February 2010 @ 19:51 |
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I was afraid that was going to be my answer. So, this is probably another dumb question. I have an old abit kv7 with out any disks, drivers or manual. How risk would it be to switch out the MOBO? It's was salvaged from a buddy's old computer. Looks to be in decent shape, I read some where that it support the barton amd 2800+. I just dont want to change the MOBO, and have it not work. I'm relatively new to this custom computering. Thanks.
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17. February 2010 @ 21:22 |
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17. February 2010 @ 23:29 |
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The Abit KV7 was a fine board in it's day...but that day was long before the 2800+ came out.
I assume this is a Athlon 64 2800+...if so, it is a Socket 754 chip...and the Abit KV7 is a Socket 462 board.
On top of that, emachines typicaly have a custom formfactor mainboard, or microATX...I highly doubt that you could fit a KV7 into the case anyway.
The Athlon 64 2800+ was only a 1800MHZ chip...if it is only registering as a 1700, it might be because these chips were typicaly either unlocked, or "half-locked"...where you could lower the multiplier, but you could not raise it. I would double-check in your bios...there might at least be a multiplier section...it might even be jumpers or dip switches on something that old.
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srtbuddha
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18. February 2010 @ 15:50 |
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No the CPU is a barton amd athlon xp 2800+. I was also wonder if it would be smarter to upgrade to a FIC AM39L (with is for the eMachine) and it supports that CPU?
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19. February 2010 @ 12:40 |
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I don't know why you are "married" to the eMachines case, but that's probably your main "stopper".
It probably has a fixed backplate, proprietary power supply, non-standard form factor for a mother board, which are all issues which will prevent you from using an off-the-shelf motherboard.
You have 2 options, spend 0 money or spend a lot of money.
Spend 0 money - leave it alone and run it "as-is".
Spend a lot of money - forklift all of that proprietary crap and build from the ground up.
Frankenstein upgrades using eMachines as a core are not economical. Any money you throw at it is better spent on a new build.
Overclocking a Barton to 3500+ isn't that great anyway (yes, i've done it). the performance increase is not overly noticeable.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 19. February 2010 @ 12:42
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19. February 2010 @ 13:24 |
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