overclocking old atholon xp

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ok so iv got a old compaq presario, and its got atholon xp equiped, i looked up on how to overclock it and all the suggestions said to like remove some parts of the processor, that looked hella dumb and im not ripping a vintage processor apart for some extra performence, is there a way that i can overclock without ripping my components apart.

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i dont know about high end but take a look at this see if it means anything, that third pic of the body was so u know what model i got... and cause its pretty cool ngl, and its atholon xp barton

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1 minute ago, campy said:

from what ive been able to quickly read up on this board, it supports the stock fsb for each processor but not beyond

http://www.mxdatarecovery.net/asus-hp-a7v8x-la-motherboard-driver-drivers-bios-specs.html

so itll run the 400mhz fsb for the athlon xp 3200+ but you cant push it further than that to get higher clock speeds out of it or any other processor on the platform

 

however with a bios flash to a similar alternate board (same thing but -VM or -MX) you may be able to get those fsb overclocking features enabled

https://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php/453090-Asus-A7V8x-LA

Then another problem with that is though you could flash the bios to one of those, you would end up still missing some hardware that would be beneficial for overclocking that way. You'd likely be soldering on new components to properly power an overlocked athlon xp without toasting your board.

The LA is the lower end variant of the MX

https://www.asus.com/supportonly/A7V8X-MX/HelpDesk

 

tl;dr if you want to OC it, youre gonna have to do it the dirty way unless you feel like tracking down an entirely different board or heavily modifying your current board

and really its an athlon xp in the end, its still gonna have abysmal performance for anything modern, but for era stuff it will still be fine

 

really i just suggest slapping a decent agp card into it from the era (or a bit newer and lower end might be cheaper) and playing halo or whatever on it

you can try and overclock it either way but know that youre risking the board toasting itself, most likely also killing the processor (athlons just be like that)

ahh yikes i dont wanna solder anything on, and iv heard flashing my borad can really mess it up... i would rather run xp stable than attemtpt to retro game on it, guess space pinball is gonna have to do for now lol