Can classy Athlon overclock without GFD???????

[DropZone]

confused; I was curious, can a classy Slot A Athlon be oc'd without a GFD. I am using a MSI K7 Pro that is jumperless. The BIOS automatically sets the CPU on the board. However I notice that the Multiplier clock can be manually changed up to 150. I tinkered with it and was able to see "Athlon 1000mhz" on POST bootup. Up'd the voltage and it ran for about 10 minutes before locking up. Does this actually oc the cpu? I thought it could only be oc'd with a GFD? I'm I wrong? I have a classy Athlon 850 Slot A. Answers....Please!!:Q

 

[dkozloski]

What you have done is a CLASSIC front-side bus overclock. A Multiplier overclock will require a GFD.

 

[DropZone]

dkozloski

Thanks for update!

 

[subhuman]

i had NO success with ath 700 classic on ka7-100 overclocking using the FSB... time to break out the gfd.

 

[stockjock]

He is rite..you only overclocked via the FSB...overclocking via the FSB is ok but you probably won't get very high because you are also increasing the FSB for everything else on the board...mem..vid..sound..etc...so many times those items can't handle the increase or they can only handle it for a short period of time....I would definetly go and get a GFD..they are very cheap now and most (like mine..TD2 GFD) are very easy to install....if you need to know where to get one drop me a PM and I will gladly tell ya...

 

[RoadRuner]

110 is a realistic and typical classic FSB overclock for the EV6 bus.

almost all chips will do that.

thats effectively raising the EV6 from 200 to 220, cpu from say 700 to 770.

There's defintely some punch in that, as you get into a high processor mghz.


some people say
using good SDRAM

FSB 110 + 33(sdram) x 8.0 Multiplier
is faster than
FSB 100 + 33 x 9.5 multiplier