Changing my MOBO... help

[leighd8]

I curently have a Soyo 5ehm w/ an amd K6-6 500, and Win2000. I am changing to an EPOX MVP3GM-5 with a AMD K6-III+ 450.
Do I need to change anything on the OS?? I think I just need to un-install the drivers from the old board, and then reinstal the new ones with the new mobo and cpu... what do ya think?

I am not in the mood for a little "Format C:"

also, anyone ever overclocked with this combo (mobo\cpu) I have heard i can get up to 616 khz?? thanks for your input

 

[leighd8]

bump^

 

[Teatowel]

Yeah you seems to have the right idea.

As regards overclocking, I had a FIC mb with the K6-III+ 450, and got it up to 504 mhz only..anything more and it got unstable.

 

[sswingle]

Should work just fine. I've done this 3 times myself (twice on mine, once on my dad's). Windows automatically installs new drivers when it finds the new CPU and motherboard on bootup.

 

[leighd8]

sounds good, did you have to do anything special?

 

[Flighttester]

I basicly have two computers (that I built) with that exact same MOBO (Epox MVP3GM-5) and AMD K6-III/450 with 256Meg RAM, VooDoo 3/3000 and Running Windows 2000 Professional. I did a clean format when I got Windows 2000 and formatted the 20Gb (Western Digital) as NTFS. Do that, unless youneed to dual boot. Yo uprobably won't need to.

I have tried all kinds of MOBO'd settings to overclock the 450 CPU with absolutely no success. Nevertheless, I really like these computers. They are the fastest Super 7's I have ever experienced. I guess they are the last of the line. Next step up will be the Athlon Thunderbird.

 

[leighd8]

Yeah I have overclocked my K6-II 500 to 550... then I thought WHY??? it wasnt worth it.

These little systems are real fast, and you have enough $$$ to buy tons of ram.
I was hoping to get my 450 to 550 or just leave it where it is, with 256mb of ram or 384mg that is all I need, for the shi* I do.

I've used my friends P3 800 and, to tell you the truth, I was limp after use. All the T-bird hype is fun, but at age 17 I don't have the loot to play around with it.