AMD Barton 2400+M running at 2.4 Ghz at 200MHZ FSB?

[Frank]

I put an old CPU and Motherboard system together to run as my media center and I wanted to see how far I could push the CPU. It started out at 1.8 Ghz at 133MHZ FSB and Windows showed it as the "weak link" as I got a 2.9 rating on my WEI on 7.

I pushed it up to 12x 200MHZ and it seems to be working well. Pushed the WEI to 3.9 and has been running HyperPI for 30 minutes @ Realtime with no issues. Is this a safe speed to keep it at? Should I clock it down a bit? I will be using it to rip my DVD collection to the HDD and recording TV from my cable company.

[Fish]

Those old mobile Bartons 'clocked well ;)

As long as your happy that the excess heat is being taken away efficiently, you should be fine.

[Mike]

From what I remember the Barton cores were stupidly overclockable. Not 100% on the mobile versions though but if you've not increased the vcore and the temps are fine, I'd say its perfectly safe.

[ToneKnee]

The original bartons were crackheads when it cam to overclocking, they were pretty much underclocked CPU's.

The mobile bartons are even better because they are mobile chips with less heat, so you could push them even further.

[Dom]

Mobile bartons were teh **** back in their times, 2.4 is pretty "normal" for a 2400, my 2600 got up to 2.65 ;D.

As long as its cooled properly, it shouldnt be ANY problem.

[RadishTM Veteran]

Ah, the famous "Barton" core. I had my 2500+ CPU overclocked to a 3200+ spec, on a ABIT NF7-S v2.0 - those were the days :D

It's a tried and tested overclock Frank (Y)

Radish?

[Frank]

Good News! This was previously in my main system before I went to Vista. Since my 3800+ MOBO wouldn't work with anything other then a crappy 300W PSU I dug this off of the back of the shelf and thought I would see what it could do. Previously I was only running it at 2.2GHZ at 166Mhz FSB. I took it up to 2.5Ghz at 166MHZ FSB but it started to error out. 2.4Ghz @ 200Mhz FSB seems to be the sweet spot at the default voltage (Y).

I have it installed i n a NZXT Duet case, the processor is sitting right next to a 120mm fan so I think it will be fine! Thanks for the input! I am still amazed that this setup with 1GB of RAM and a 6600GT runs amazing in Windows 7 and almost gets a 4 in the WEI index!

[s162216]

I got given a computer in 2004 with a 2500+ by my parents and when I recently accidently fried it due to the crap stock heatsink design, I brought another one and I love it to bits - nothing will ever beat IMO when it comes to easy overclocking, I even got it to 2.9 ghz once on stock cooling!

[Aergan]

I got my XP2500+ to 2.5Ghz on air with a 1.76-1.785v vcore at 12x210Mhz via modding the vcore lines and manually re-bridging the laser cut unlock multiplier on the CPU package. CPU temps were around 54C load.

My XP2500-M did a ridiculas 2.86Ghz on air (12x239Mhz @ 1.55v) and 3.025Ghz (12.5x242Mhz @ 1.79v) on water with Waterchill setup + mini pump in a modded Shuttle SN45G + 250w PSU. Load temps on air were around 65c and 48c on water. System went through two PSU's during an 8month lifetime before I went with an AMD 64 setup.

If your XP2400-M is on stock voltage or detecting it as normal desktop voltage (1.4v-1.45v) then you are doing the CPU no harm and will quite happily run for the forseable future.

[Jason S. Global Moderator]

i had a 2500M+ many many years ago. i had that thing over 2.5GHz for a while. after a year or so, i got many BSODs. i had to lower the clock and voltage a bit... after several more months i had to lower again... finally the chip would barely run at 2GHz.

keep the voltage in a safe range and you should be fine.

[+Warwagon MVC]

Well you know what they say. If it doesn't smoke, catch fire or lock up you are golden!.