Just overclocked my PIII 600E to 800...now what?

[pulse8]

I was pretty amazed at how easy it was for me to do this. Just popped on a slocket and now I'm at 800. How can I test the below system for stability? I'm doing this with the stock hs/fan and since I haven't really had any problems that would seem to be from heat. The computer hasn't really frozen up or anything. Should I get a Golden Orb just to be on the safe side?

Thanks,
David

 

[The Rock]

I have the exact same set-up(using 1.00 bios though for Q3, don't ask!)as you and everything is extremely stable. Probably due to Retail CPU and Tyan makes some of the most stable boards out there. I wouldn't consider OCing any higher but would experiment with running your ram at 133(host clock) and try different timing configs(turbo,cas2,etc.). If you run in to problems just go back to last "good" config. Good Luck!

 

[digitalalgorithm]

Where did you buy it?

 

[BlueScreenVW]

Use 3DMark 2000 as a quick stability test. My personal favourite; whenever CPU speed (or FSB) is too high, or voltage too low if you wish, it crashes to desktop with a "file is corrupt" message. Have tried it with both PIII 600 @ 840 on BX and T-bird 800 @ 1007 on KT7 RAID.

 

[pulse8]

The CPU? I bought it a long while back from a company I can't remember. If you really need to know, e-mail me and I can dig it up. I just now decided to overclock it.

David

 

[digitalalgorithm]

If anyone knows where there is a vender who has 550 or 600 MHz CPUs that are cC0 steppings and/or overclock well, could you give an URL?