you need to get some liquid nitrogen

If that was a Celeron, it would have made it

lol, funny you should say that. i got my Celeron 667 up to 1133MHz at 1.95v.
 
I got my Athlon 850 up to 1053MHz last night, brought it back down to 1GHz though because i need better cooling
 
(Athlon 850@1000MHz@1.800v)
Idle 87F/31C
Full 99F/37C

funny that you put it as journey to 1ghz
cause i installed red faction today on my computer and the setup program read my pc as a 1ghz machine when it is really a dual 850, WTF
 
is that the relative performance?
 
WTF

Jeff,
 
is your copy of Red Faction the full install or a ripped install?
 
if its the full install i'll download it from you.
 
 
 
Size?

It all depends on the Duron, pimpin' and how you approach the OC. The best OC is using the FSB AND the multiplier. My 800 can hit 1050, but not entirely stable, no matter what. The best combination I've found for me is 9.5x107. I've also jacked my ram speed up to 133MHz in BIOS, and the FSB increase has it running at 140-ish. Do note that all my RAM is at least 7.5ns--a big help.
 
That OC for the 700 sounds about right. If you want to bust out the watercooling/refridgeration, be my guest, but your best bet is to just buy a faster chip and OC that. Typically, AMD's chips seem to hit an extra 200MHz on average.
 
Tips for a happy OC:
--Up the Voltage (don't over do it, tho)
--Mix multipliers and the FSB for best results
--Get that Ram running at 133MHz/266MHz
--Get a GlobalWIN FOP-32, it's more than enough for a Duron.
--Use some good thermal paste (Radio Shack's crap doesn't cut it)
 
This is the poor-man's guide (abridged) to happy overclocking. If you have the dough, get watercooling or whatever. If not, buy a faster chip.

Quote:I take it Durons are NOT multiplier locked like some other Intel stuff is?

Arent the durons EASIER to unlock?

Thanks to AMD's chip design, you have access to the layout, but with INTEL they have that metal "cover" dont they?

No cover. Just the old lead pencil trick to unlock 'em if they aren't already.

Lead Pencil works fine for Me, both Athlons and Durons are easy to unlock, i use a .5mm Mechanical #2 pencil and seal the leads off with transparent tape, to relock the cpu i simply peel the tape off.

Well cooling isn't the issue now i have an alpha pep66t heatsink with a delta 7000 rpm fan but the problem with frontside bus is the board won't let me use 133 for some odd reason

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