a barrage of questions ,help appreciated :)

[saftey]

I have an old p3 550 from gateway with some motherboard called a tabor III .When i open this case up theres this what i guess to be proprietary plastic mold vent type thing comoing off the power supply and on to the heatsink/fan combo on the proc. is there any chance for overclocking this old p3?and one other thing i have a geforce 2 ti from inno3d and i once saw an article from overclockersonline saying they overclocked it properly even though it has no heatsinks over the ram and not a very adaquet one over the proc.when i over clock it to there specifications i get speckles flying all over my screen in games running direct x or open gl .can anyone help?

 

[308nato]

Sounds like your p3 is a Katmai core. Not generally overclockable. As far as your vid card, you could try cooling it but IMHO its a waste of time. If you upgrade the card to a G3-ti200(or something like that) you would be better off till you can upgrade your system itself.

 

[saftey]

whats IMHO?

 

[ChurchOfSubgenius]

Check out the library at "overclockers.com", it looks like 308nato is correct, that PIII 550 is a dud when it comes to OCing, you might be able to use SoftFSB if you can find out what clock generator the Tabor uses.

EDIT: IMHO means "In my humble opinion"

 

[kursplat]

out of 3 p-3 550's i've tryed 105mhz fsb is the best any of them ever did.
good luck

 

[saftey]

is that even worth doing overclocking to 105?if i even can with stock cooling a massive fan by my vid card