Pentium 3, advice for Overclocking

[Barild]

Hey there!!!

I need advice for overclocking a pentium 3 500 retail heatsink and fan.

it is now overclocked to 560(112x5.5 and the temp is 30 c...... - is that good?

my motherboard is a p6bxt-a+ from ecs.... newest bios.......

Thx

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[EdSki]

The best my p3 500 will do is 575..the memory can't take any more (brandless pc 100)
so maybe you can go even higher.

Grtz,
Ed



[This message has been edited by EdSki (edited 12 August 2000).]

[Barild]

how do you get 575?

[EdSki]

I set the bus speed to 115 (5x115)

Grtz,
Ed

[Barild]

how do you set the bus speed?

[Sisyfos]

How did you overclock in the first place, if you don't know hot to set the bus speed???

[Beef Stew]

lol.. the bus speed is that thing you set to 112..the muliplier is the 5.5 wich you should set to 5.0 for your procesor..I think the multiplier is locked on the pIII 500 but I'm not really sure (you should get 616 with a 5.5 multiplier and 112 bus)sure try setting the bus to 124 If your ram will accept it and you don't get many lockups...you'll be running @ 620 which is great for a piii 500..I'm pretty sure the matrox can take the overclock on the bus I'm running mine at 124 with no probs...and remember to use good cooling (less than 10 bucks)it can make a big difference

[Beef Stew]

damn, I didn't notice you had an ecs motherboard..they really aren't too overclockable even the ones with the BX chipset..your sistem is pretty nice and you really are slowing it down with that mainboard..an upgrade there will really make a difference..I had one...trust me

[Barild]

what do you recommend?

[EdSki]

An Asus p3bf will suit you nicely

Grtz,
Ed

[Technoid]

The temp is OK!
Everything belove 45 is great (it works above that to but it aint great anymore).
If everything else holds go ahead.

(Sorry Edski, had been trying to get an sraight answer somwhere else and it developed into a overclocking bragparty...)
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[This message has been edited by Technoid (edited 12 August 2000).]

[This message has been edited by Technoid (edited 12 August 2000).]

[EdSki]

Well i understood his question al little differently. And he didn't complain...so me hijacking his post is a load of you-know-what

[Werdna]

I have mine running at 620 (124FSB) on a P3B-F and it works fine, all I added was one extra fan and the temp was fine, although I've stopped doing that now because it was a two wire fan and I had to use a power box that I no longer have access to to power it.

[giskard]

My PIII500E is running @720mhz. Stock cooling, etc etc. Thats a coppermine chip. Not sure if that's what you guys are running.
Don't think you can run the Katmai CPU's as hard. 30 deg c is quite comfortable for the CPU. It can get much hotter than that without too much drama.

Cheers,

Giskard

[Wishbone]

If i buy a intel 800eb, and i have pc100 sdram - probably cheap stuff; will i able to run it a it's 133mhz bus speed, or will i have to underclock it or get better sdram?


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