First, I must say that I'm in a big rush and I'm not even sure I read everything you said but I'll point out a few thigns: 1. Intel CPUs (Blast you, Intel) are multiplier locked i.e. you can't overclock the "x" setting. If you reall want to you can do some soldering. See tomshardware.com as well as www.overclockers.(com net or org, I forgot which) 2. You can still overclock the FSB (mainboard speed) even on clock-locked CPUs but some soft BIOSes will fight you. That's why, for overclocking, mainboards that still use switches and jupers are better - it's hard to make BIOSes that do SoftFSB co-operate. Beware of the fact that that can screw up PCi cards and the like, Some higher-end Mainboards allow the PCI bus to be gated (run at it's own speed seperate form the rest of the board) 3. I strongly suggest you check for updates to your BIOS and install them if there are. 4. Go over your jumpers/dip switches several times with your mainboard's manual in had, it's pretty easy to mess those up. 5. You may have some settings locked in your BIOS, things like "quick boot" will case it to not perceive some hardware changes. if you have QuickBoot enabled disable it. Sorry for how messy this is, hope it helps. Read the web sites, read the mainboard's manual :-) At 01:30 AM 2/18/2001 -0600, you wrote:
Well, since it seems to be of interest, I'll keep the thread going on-list for now, until I get any grief letting me know to do otherwise.
The only jumpers on the board are to set the clock multiplier. This is to set the frequency of the CPU as a multiple of the FSB speed, e.g. 100MHz FSB x 5x Multiplier = 500MHz CPU. However, this is apparently only needed for PII CPUs, as the PIII is allegedly fixed. Thus, the only way to overclock one is to adjust the FSB speed upwards, thereby increasing CPU speed through its fixed multiplier setting. The mobo is supposed to detect this and configure itself appropriately. Just to be sure, I have set the jumpers to 5x, thereby setting it up for 667MHz at 133MHz FSB.
Bye for now, Stuart.
-----Original Message----- From: Steven T. Hatton [mailto:hattons@bellatlantic.net] Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 1:09 AM To: SuSE Linux List Cc: Stuart Powell Subject: Re: [SLE] [Very OT] Any overclockers out there ?
I don't find this too off topic. I'm interested. Do you have jumpers on your mother board? Are they set correctly? I seem to remember way back when I was a tech CPUs with different clocks requier differnt jumper settings. Look in your mobo docs.
HTH,
Steve
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