Overclocking - Need Suggestions =)

hey everyone,

im going to overclock my AMD Duron processor 857MHz, 256mb of RAM, my dad will be helping me with it. However, what sort of overclock would i be expected to get once it is complete? ...or what would be the safest system specs to overclock?

thanks =)

- Gabriel

 

Maybe 1 Ghz if your lucky .....Ya read the OCing guide ?

 

just dont go mad and burn it out. dont increase the voltage.

 

I think you'll easily reach 1gig with stock cooling, no extra fan needed. Durons are great for overclocking especially the older/slower ones. I got to 950 with my duron 750 without adding another fan, and it flew in quake 3. It's still alive today at a friends house (5 years old)!
They are immortal, have no fear.

 

I can say to that..... my brother has a 700Mhz duron running at 1Ghz now .... It used to be my chip like 3 years ago i ran it at like 1.1xx somthing i think it just refuses to die ......

 

ACE Beastin' !
I sold someone a machine once with a Duron 800Mhz processor. He asked me to reformat it and set up a broadband connection about a month later, so I went to do the job. When I turned on the machine it was making a horrible noise, like a grinding. I asked him how long that had been goin on, and he said about 2 weeks. So I opened the case, and the fan on the CPU had broken and the bearings weren't letting the fan spin, so he'd had no CPU fan for 2 weeks and it still ran sweet - no lockups. I remember you didn't really need a fan for a 386 or slow 486, but from the days of pentium 1's a fan was a neccessity. Durons are 'ard. Rock 'ard.