How To Overclock (Bios Settings)?

[Prince of Persia]

I have a 1.333ghz 266 Athlon on an Epox 8k7a. My ram timings are 8882622.

I've only tried once when overclocking and moved the multiplier to 11 x 133 = 1463. This was perfectly stable.

Should I bump up the multiplier to 11.5 or should I start messing with the FSB?

Is there any other options I need to be aware of when overclocking?
What about voltage?

Is there a complete guide to OC an athlon anywhere online?

 

[bacillus]

this may or may not be of help!

 

[QuackQuack]

Check out my thread here.

It may help you...my adventure into overclocking with your same mobo and memory timings.

Good luck!

 

[Prince of Persia]

Just curious...how do I up the voltage to my cpu?

I have a golden gate 30cfm whih runs at about 46 C load in a 30 C ambient case temp.

I want to keep the cpu below 55 anyway I can.

Which causes more heat? (greater mutliplier or greater fsb)?

 

[QuackQuack]

You change the voltage with jumpers on the motherboard (check the manual). It's extremely easy to do. If your overclock is not stable, increase the voltage .1V until it is. I'm trying to keep the voltage 2.0V or under (default is 1.8V).

Neither causes more heat. It's increasing the voltage that increases heat. You may need to increase the voltage to get a stable multiplier/fsb increase, hence the increased heat.

Good luck!

 

[GotMilk]

i am a totally newbie in overclocking, how can i tell my CPU's temp??

 

[heffe734]

you can tell by going into bios or dling a software such as motherboard monitor 5 and cpucool...mobo monitor is a freeware...and even shows your fans rpm's and all your voltages.

Prince...keep your multiplier @ 11. Just slowly raise the fsb...and then boot...if it works...restart and raise the fsb again...and if it posts reboot. Once you find a safe and seemingly stable enuf overclock speed...boot into windows again and dl prime 95...run it...if it gives an error...then your system is most likely unstable...just keep trying...with all the different mulitplier and fsb combinations...you have many options.