AMD K6-2 400MHz OC

[Pyroclasm]

Hey guys,
My roommate is looking to give his old K6-2 400 desktop a little kick in the pants, to help make it last just a little bit longer. He's got 128 megs of PC100 (1 stick of 64mb, 2 sticks of 32mb) on a Gigabyte GA-5AA (I just flashed to the newest BIOS). From what I can tell, the motherboard can handle the higher bus speeds, but does anyone have any experience with this chip/chipset (mobo uses ALi Aladdin V chipset)? How far can it go reasonably?
I did get the system to post at 450 without a voltage change, but it hung on BIOS load... I can only presume I need to bump the voltage. Any ideas to help me out?

Thanks guys,
Aaron

 

[Dark4ng3l]

My dad has an Ibm aptiva with that chipset (SLOW).I would sugest geting the fsb higher(and lowering the multiplier to 3.5x if it isnt stable at 448) this should give a good performance increase.

 

[DDad]

Best I could do with a 400 was 504 (4.5X112) on a Fic VA-503
Cooling was critical- especially after you bump up the voltage- in my case, up to 2.7

 

[cdrakejr]

My first system was the Aptiva K6-400 and didn't have any luck overclocking. I think the motherboard just doesn't have waht it takes.
Yes, you can adjust settings but I couldn't get it to go past the bios.

If you are more persistent than I was, these might help:

Overclocking the AMD K6-2 here.

Several other K6 articles listed here.

Check the CPU Database here They have a long list of overclocking results from individuals for the K6-2 400.

Good luck!

 

[Ultiman]

I have a k6-2 450 on a p5a-b board.

This cpu is running 540 at the moment, which is 4.5x120, stable as a rock.

I don't know if every Alladin V board can handle those kinda bus speeds, but
mine sure does seem to do pretty well.

Pim