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Not to be mean, but you don't really have much to lose by overclocking the athlon 2500+. Its only 90 bucks now, and if it dies in a year, it will be 30 bucks to replace. You don't modify the chip at all--since all you are doing is upping the fsb since they are all now multiplier locked.
It is *virtually* risk free.
Hell, a year from now the 3200+ will be 50 bucks and you could just buy that.
If you don't wanna use arctic silver 5 or whatever AMD tests for, the same company makes grease that you can use that AMD is OK with and will still cool your cpu just fine.
No offense, but you would be a moron NOT to OC that chip.
As long as you have fans/ventilation on it, you're much safer than buying a Dell and running it at stock speeds with their crappy ventilation.
As long as you go in increments, you will be just fine.
Thats why AMD is great... if you fuck up the cpu, you can pop another one in for real cheap. Fuck up an intel and you're out a coupla hundred bucks.
Oh... oc the graphics card too. It's MADE for it. Just make sure that you cool the ram enough, etc.
And now way is the 5950 ultra or whatever worth it over the 5900. Slight increases in clock speed and 128 megs more ram you'll never use.
You can OC the 5900 just fine. Flash that bios and go to town.
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