AMD Barton 2600 and gigabyte
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KingCody
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to overclock your barton is to overclock your computer. your question doesn't make sense.
Since your board doesn't have a PCI/AGP lock (I'm guessing it's a VIA chipset??), you can't really overclock at all. you may be able to bump up the FSB a little bit, but it won take much for your PCI/AGP cards to malfunction.
If you want to overclock that processor, you will have to get another mobo with a PCI/AGP lock. If you want to keep your mobo, you will have to get a Mobile Barton which has unlocked multipliers (assuming your mobo has multiplier control, it may not)
I ran into a similar problem with my first socket A system. I had a gigabyte board (i forget which model) with a VIA chipset and an AthlonXP T-bred 2600+. I wanted to get into overlclocking, but my mobo and chip were not too good for it. So i bought an Abit AN7 and a AthlonXP-M 2500+ Barton (mobile XP's have unlocked mulitpliers). I was able to overclock my 1.8GHz barton to 2.4GHz (209x11.5) stable, I probably could have gone further, but I ended up moving onto an Athlon64 system instead
Since your board doesn't have a PCI/AGP lock (I'm guessing it's a VIA chipset??), you can't really overclock at all. you may be able to bump up the FSB a little bit, but it won take much for your PCI/AGP cards to malfunction.
If you want to overclock that processor, you will have to get another mobo with a PCI/AGP lock. If you want to keep your mobo, you will have to get a Mobile Barton which has unlocked multipliers (assuming your mobo has multiplier control, it may not)
I ran into a similar problem with my first socket A system. I had a gigabyte board (i forget which model) with a VIA chipset and an AthlonXP T-bred 2600+. I wanted to get into overlclocking, but my mobo and chip were not too good for it. So i bought an Abit AN7 and a AthlonXP-M 2500+ Barton (mobile XP's have unlocked mulitpliers). I was able to overclock my 1.8GHz barton to 2.4GHz (209x11.5) stable, I probably could have gone further, but I ended up moving onto an Athlon64 system instead
KingCody
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sorry, I was assuming that you didn't attempt the "way-too-high" overclock until the CPU was older... my bad 
As long as you leave your voltages at stock levels, then there really is no chance of frying the CPU. Clock it as high as you can go without rasing the voltage, and you'll have nothing to worry about
As long as you leave your voltages at stock levels, then there really is no chance of frying the CPU. Clock it as high as you can go without rasing the voltage, and you'll have nothing to worry about
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