newbie question on OCing my epox mobo and 1.33 Tbird..

[Ender510]

Here is what I have:

Epox 8k7a+ mobo
AMD TBird 1.33 ghz, AYHJA, with the 9xxxxxxxx as the second line, and the 22nd week CPU.
Crucial PC2100 256mb ram (2)
GeForce2 Pro 4.5ns DDR 64 megs video card

Those are my basic components.. I plan on running a RAID 0 system (2 30 GIG maxtor drives) and also have a adaptec SCSI 2940AU card (PCI).

Now, how do I overclock? I have read that you get better performance by upping the FSB. How is this done? In the manual, I only see two choices.. to either put the bus @ 133 or 100 via JCLK1 for the CPU clock speed. I set it to 2-3, 133 mhz for the CPU for now.

Then there is the multipler that you can set between 5-12. What options do I have? I have read I can put my DDR adjust (JP3) all the way to 2.9 safely.. so does that mean I would put JP3 to 5-10, which would be +0.4? This would be adding 2.5 + 0.4? Is this correct?

How about the CPU Vcore adjust? BTW, I have the CAK38 GlobalWin Heatsink/Fan.

Please advise in what increments I should up the speeds and which in particular / thanks in advance!

 

[Ender510]

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[Ender510]

anyone?

 

[NelsonMuntz]

The large adjustment of FSB from 100 to 133 MHz is made with a jumper on the motherboard for that model, but fine tuning adjustments are made in the BIOS. Once you enter the BIOS look for an option something like CPU clck and go in there and change the FSB setting just a few MHz at a time. For instance, up it to 140 MHz and see if you are able to boot and check your stability. If everything is okay, then you can up the FSB a little more. If you begin to lose stability, then you can increase your core voltage one increment and see if you regain the stability. The other option that some people do is lower the multiplier so that you can increase the FSB further to overclock the memory.
BTW that is a good HSF, so depending on the other components you should be able to overclock well.