Hi all,
Just wanted to share my overclock experience with you all maybe we all can learn from it
Last week i ordered a Duron 700, Abit KT7a (despite the bad rumors floating around coz it was removed from AMD's list) and some (brand) PC133 256Mb SDRAM. For cooling i ordered an Alpha 6035 plus High Performance cooler and a spacer ( to prevent the Duron from breaking into pieces when placing the heatsink)I build the system, tested the fan, placed it into my case and started running at 700Mhz.
Then immediately after boot switched over to 900 = 9x100 @ 1.6 v. This ran perfectly, tested 3dmark, QII and UT. So i thought if this thing can do 900 at 1.6v it must be easy to obtain 1000.... but
First thing that is very important is that you do the L1 bridges right !! I had to do mine 8 times or even more before it was right. I couldn't do 7.5, but 8 or 9 was no problem. So multiplier problems are most of the time related to the pencil trick. At last i used a 3B pencil and now it works at 1000 = 7.5x 133
Then the voltage.... at 1.775 v it booted into windows but wasn't stable to run 3dmark. At 1.8v 3Dmark could be benchmarked but then i saw in the VIA hardware monitor that the voltage was like 1.86 !!
My question : is the the actual voltage ?! or is the voltage read-out in the BIOS correct ? Same applies for the temperature.. I'm now at 29-30 degrees idle and 48 degrees at full load.
Is this too much ? When should i really begin to worry ?I'm currently stable at 1.825 volt = 1.88 in the VIA tool.Another question: Can i do a burn-in at 500Mhz @ 1.85 volt and then be able to run 1000 at 1.8 volt ? Will it help ?
Then the copper shim spacer; i'm really glad that i ordered it ! After removing and applying the heatsink about 8 times i really wouldn't think of this without the spacer...Well i think this is it...
One thing i forgot and possibly VERY important is the BIOS version... i have a SCSI symbios UW controller and my bootdisk is SCSI. With the WZ bios and the WZ110 bios the board would NOT boot from SCSI. I had to go back to the WW bios.
So SCSI problems -> go back to the WW bios. !
Aaah.... so much to ask..
What about the AGP bus speeds ? How fast is it running at 133 ? And what if you increase the bus speed with the BIOS.. how is the AGP bus affected.. Because at 142 Mhz i see at lot of artifacts on screen.. I really wonder at what speed the AGP bus is running. BTW i'm using a ASUS Geforce 256.
My story so far... still testing at 1000Mhz and it sure feels good !! Happy overclocking !
Greetz, Whizzy
Just wanted to share my overclock experience with you all maybe we all can learn from it
Last week i ordered a Duron 700, Abit KT7a (despite the bad rumors floating around coz it was removed from AMD's list) and some (brand) PC133 256Mb SDRAM. For cooling i ordered an Alpha 6035 plus High Performance cooler and a spacer ( to prevent the Duron from breaking into pieces when placing the heatsink)I build the system, tested the fan, placed it into my case and started running at 700Mhz. Then immediately after boot switched over to 900 = 9x100 @ 1.6 v. This ran perfectly, tested 3dmark, QII and UT. So i thought if this thing can do 900 at 1.6v it must be easy to obtain 1000.... but
First thing that is very important is that you do the L1 bridges right !! I had to do mine 8 times or even more before it was right. I couldn't do 7.5, but 8 or 9 was no problem. So multiplier problems are most of the time related to the pencil trick. At last i used a 3B pencil and now it works at 1000 = 7.5x 133
Then the voltage.... at 1.775 v it booted into windows but wasn't stable to run 3dmark. At 1.8v 3Dmark could be benchmarked but then i saw in the VIA hardware monitor that the voltage was like 1.86 !!
My question : is the the actual voltage ?! or is the voltage read-out in the BIOS correct ? Same applies for the temperature.. I'm now at 29-30 degrees idle and 48 degrees at full load.
Is this too much ? When should i really begin to worry ?I'm currently stable at 1.825 volt = 1.88 in the VIA tool.Another question: Can i do a burn-in at 500Mhz @ 1.85 volt and then be able to run 1000 at 1.8 volt ? Will it help ?
Then the copper shim spacer; i'm really glad that i ordered it ! After removing and applying the heatsink about 8 times i really wouldn't think of this without the spacer...Well i think this is it...
One thing i forgot and possibly VERY important is the BIOS version... i have a SCSI symbios UW controller and my bootdisk is SCSI. With the WZ bios and the WZ110 bios the board would NOT boot from SCSI. I had to go back to the WW bios.
So SCSI problems -> go back to the WW bios. !
Aaah.... so much to ask..
What about the AGP bus speeds ? How fast is it running at 133 ? And what if you increase the bus speed with the BIOS.. how is the AGP bus affected.. Because at 142 Mhz i see at lot of artifacts on screen.. I really wonder at what speed the AGP bus is running. BTW i'm using a ASUS Geforce 256.
My story so far... still testing at 1000Mhz and it sure feels good !! Happy overclocking !
Greetz, Whizzy
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