Soyo K7VTA Pro and Athlon 1800+ overclock help, please?

Newbie here:

If anyone can help me overclock this chip/MB I'd appreciate the help.

I "think" I've got the Thoroughbred chip, but it's got a heatsink
glued on it so I can't see the model numbers now...

Thanks!

Chowboy

 

Get a copy of AIDA32 or CPUID and they will tell you which chip you have
to include stepping and other relevant info.

 

Stanmc:

Thanks for the help. I d/l'ed AIDA32 and ran the chip utility. Too
bad, I have the Palomino chip...

Heck.

Oh, well, it's time to upgrade anyway...

Thanks again.

ChowBoy

 

Chowboy

Just because you have a Palomino chip doesn't mean that you can't
overclock it. I had a 1700 Palomino that I ran for 2 years on a
VTA-Pro overclocked to 1669 (Athlon 2000). You just have to work a
little since the Palomino comes locked unlike many of the
Throughbreds. You can get the necessary supplies and instructions to
unlock a Palomino from www.highspeedpc.com. The fellow who owns the
site is knowledgable and very helpful. To unlock the chip you will
need a fairly steady hand but it is really not a big deal.

You are unlikely,in my experience, to get much beyond 1669 with a
Palomino. With a 1700 Throughbred you can get about 1750 with the
VTA-Pro (not the 1.0 version) if you have good memory, cooling and
powersupply. If you want more than this you would have to go to some
extreme measures. Some might think its not worth the aggrevation given
the cost of CPU chips but if you like to tinker you can get a decent
performance boost without spending much money.

Joe

JOe