Does pencil work well for overclocking Duron?

[SOS]

Hi,

I want to overclock my Duron 600Mhz. I was going to get a conductive pen (very expensive), but I just read about a standard pencil being able to do the trick.

Is this generally successful? Have many of you used the pencil to do it?

Thanks

SOS

 

[FordLorider]

pencil works fine 🙂

 

[LXi]

You 'll need a motherboard that supports the multiplier adjustment, such as the Asus A7V, Abit KT7, or MSI K7T Pro2.

 

[Dan]

Pencil worked for me: Duron 600 running stable at 900MHz.

 

[Jonny]

PENCIL TRICK WORKS GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TB 900 @ 1ghz here 😉

 

[zippy]

Pencil trick works just fine. In fact, I am doing it in a few days on my friends machine (Tbird 1GHz...yum!) that I am putting together. 🙂

 

[K6 3]

pencil trick works great!

 

[SOS]

Excellent. Looks like the pencil is a more pricise tool for the job anyway.

Does Thermal Paster affect the pencil joins?

Thanks

SOS

 

[brennan]

The pencil trick works great (I've clocked two Duron 600s to 900 w/o a hitch), but get the sharpest mechanical pencil you can find, because those leads are smaller than you think.

Thermal paste doesn't affect it because the die is raised slightly - neither the paste nor heat sink should touch the leads.

-brennan

 

[formulav8]

It has my 600@950.

 

[noxipoo]

any pencil will do? all i got is staedler (sp) .5MM mechanical pencils

 

[Rigoletto]

If you go to a real office store you should be able to get a 2B "lead". I'm not sure whether this deposits more graphite or clay exactly....any pencil makers out there?

 

[paulip88]

Pencil works, but for overall performance, a more permanent solution has a slight edge. Got an extra 50MHz out of my Duron using stuff from a defogger kit. Still not 100% stable, but that might be a driver issue. Haven't bothered to figure out yet. Either way, it WAY more stable that the pencil at this speed.

 

[Sunner]

Umm, how you unlock it wont matter when it comes to stability.
All you do when you do the pencil trick is unlock the multiplier.
Its either on or off, there's no "unstable off".

Cooling is a completely different story though.

 

[PCResources]

<< You 'll need a motherboard that supports the multiplier adjustment, such as the Asus A7V, Abit KT7, or MSI K7T Pro2. >>



As usual, you have no clue, the pencil trick will do just fine, with any old pencil.

Oh, BTW, PC Resources doesn't recommend overclocking at all, it will void any guarantee, but as long as you understand that you are doing it at your own risk, PC Resources will help out in any overclocking situation.

Peltier anyone??

Patrick Palm

Am speaking for PC Resources

 

[paulip88]

PC Resources,

Yes, the pencil trick would work fine, but it doens't get you far unless you can adjust the multiplier. After all, that is what the pencil trick allows you to do.

 

[rmblam]

The pencil works fine usually, but some guys have experienced degrading stability over time with it. As mentioned there are better solutions.

SOS, there is some related and unrelated info Here that you might be interested in reading.