Help with AMD Duron Processor

[Question Mark]

Is there anyway I can safely overclock it? Its a 701 mhz processor by System Information.

[rageagainstmachine]

aw gawd, buy a new better one you skin flint. haha

[stncttr908 Veteran]

What board are you using? PC100 or PC133 RAM?

[Daviesbad04]

Wow, thats a fairly ancient processor. I doubt youd get alot out of it, but try upping the FSB. You could probably do that little trick others have done, but chances are youd damage the CPU just to get maybe 25Mhz out of it. I could be wrong though....

Do you have a OEM computer? Those are usually locked.

[A10]

Ancient or not it can still overclock I had a Duron 700 for my first SocketA system back in 2000 I had it going at 900 very stable I put in a Duron Morgan 1ghz, but it didn't budge the very least it only allowed me to do a minor FSB oc I had pencil tricked the 700 the morgan didn't allow that.

oh and this was on air with a Swiftech MCX370 with a aluminum 60MM fan which replaced the hair dryer like YS Tech 60MM I had on their before blew out 40CFM of air got me a great oc, but it sounded terrible.

[Question Mark]

Yes its a OEM compaq computer. And I dunno what a fsb is and the motherboard is a Compaq 06E4h and the BIOS is a Compaq 786k1

[rageagainstmachine]

fsb is front side bus

[Question Mark]

Whats that? Can you explain a little bit better?

[rageagainstmachine]

The bus that connects the CPU to main memory on the motherboard. I/O buses, wihch connect the CPU with the systems other components, branch off of the system bus.

[Question Mark]

According to Nero InfoTool Its a 100Mhz Bus.

[rageagainstmachine]

dude, put your chip to bed and buy a new one. any performance increase you may get would be nominal

[Brandon]

its a compaq.. forget it...

[Brandon]

ugh server error

[chconline Veteran]

meh you cant oc a compaq... not that i no of.

[Hankyone]

forget it

[Question Mark]

Well.. :pinch: :cry: Thanks anyways for your help.. Also the reason I haven't got a new mobo and processor is because I have no money.

[+LogicalApex MVC]

  Mr. S said:

Well..  :pinch:  :cry:  Thanks anyways for your help.. Also the reason I haven't got a new mobo and processor is because I have no money.

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You shouldn't overclock unless u have the money to replace the hardware you may kill. As mentioned before you would gain a better speed boost by buying a newer board, cpu, and ram.

Also since you don't seem to be a affluent, in knowledge, computer person i don't recommend you mess with overclocking.

[Question Mark]

Well... I am very good with computers. Its just that hardware wise I am not very up-to-date. Software and anything to do with windows I am very good at.

[python134r]

I dont want to sound like a hard ass, use search, theres about 3000 posts give or take a few on this subject. anyway its so old its not worth the bother, you might be able to, did you post your specs? :)

[Richardo]

To recap what others have mentioned, I doubt that the compaq bios will allow you to up the fsb anyway, therefore OC'ing via fsb o'clock is impossible unless there are jumpers on your motherboard that will allow it. But as its a 700mhz duron compaq i seriously doubt that too, so you're basically out of luck.

Without a lot of work the best overclock you're likely to get out of the thing anyway is about +100mhz, which may not be that percievable unless running benchmarks