Athlon XP unlocking Voltage?

[wip3out]

I am going to unlock my Athlon Xp pretty soon I'm confident I can do it, but I have been told that if I do I will need to increase the core voltage? I wasn't aware of this and I am now a little concerned.

Anyone got their XP unlocked and if so what voltage are you using?

[YARDofSTUF]

well to overclock u will need more volts so once u start overclocking and teh comp freezes u raise teh voltsu do this until ur full load temp reaches the max u want it to be and then ur done!

[wip3out]

Yeh I have been doing this when increasing the FSB however I was under the impression that when you unlocked the processor you weren't overclocking as such, just "hacking" the chip so it though it was an Athlon XP 1800+ etc and therefore it would run at default voltage?

[YARDofSTUF]

no all ur doing is allowing teh multiplier to be adjusted so u can raise or lower it to overclock more.

[wip3out]

So If I unlock my chip and run it at an FSB of 133mhz with a multiplyer of 12.5 I won't get a higher clock frequency than I have now with my multiplyer of 10.5 and 133FSB?? Is this what you are saying?

[YARDofSTUF]

u'll get 1.66ghz, but u need to up the voltage to hit that

[wip3out]

thanks for the help, my maximum Core voltage is 1.85 will this be high enough and also what area's of my mobo will I need to look at cooling at this type of voltage?? I already have the northbridge sorted with a crystal orb anything else?