new processor

i have recently bought an amd athlon xp2000+. it runs native at 1.67 ghz. i can overclock it (safely...) to 2ghz. how much further can i safely take it without it going stupid?

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most newer chips and mobos will give you some sort of protection from blowing the processor...for ASUS boards, the comp will just shut off if you are in danger

wow sound kool ! didn't know u can overlock it !
how can u do it ?

Overclocking really depends on the motherboard you have and is probably to complex of a task to explain in a single post. For overclocking AMD chips (and AMD talk in general) amdmb.com has some great info in their forums.

Check it out

-GB

The problem isn't going to be that you might blow up your CPU its that you will start getting instability in the chip... eg. you will start getting processing errors...

the way chips are rated is not by the makers going.. ok.. I'm going to make a 10 1.7GHz chips and 10 2.5GHz chips... they try to make 20 2.5GHz chips and test them all.. the ones that are stable at 2.5GHz are called 2.5's and the ones which aren't stable are rated at a speed which they are stable.. eg so maybe the rest of the batch can only run stable at 1.7GHz

sooo you 1.67GHz machine was probably designed to go much faster.. so you can run it.. but its more a question is how much stability are you willing to trade...

oh.. also the more you cool the system the more stable an overclocked system will run.. so by as much system fans etc as you can if you intend to overclock your system a lot