Only 882Mhz from a cB0?

[obeseotron]

I got my new p3 today, and I'm a little distressed. It is a 700e SL3XX FCPGA. My friend got one of these a week ago, and it is almost stable at 1050Mhz (boots windows, crashes after a while). Is he lucky or am I unlucky?

Also, the BX Master I'm using couldn't overclock my celeron 366 to 550 like my BH6 or Soyo boards because of what I think was a problem giving the chip more than default voltage. Do you think it could still be a problem, I have an Asus Slotket which should be good quality right?

Thanks

 

[Ulysses]

Traditionally that would be pretty good. It's all in the averages, and I guess you are at the wrong end of the bell curve. I'm assuming you know what you're doing as far as overclocking goes when I say this. And 1050 that crashes ain't 1050 in my book.

 

[apoppin]

You are not unlucky - your clockspeed is more than 25% over default. What is your voltage? What is your cooling solution?

A CPU that boots into Windows and then "crashes after a while" is NOT stable.

 

[LXi]

Too bad, the magic number isnt there - 1/2 AGP divider.

 

[compuwiz1]

Have you tried pulling the sw2 and sw3 jumpers off the motherboard? Also, how good is your ram? What about AGP. Are all things in the two systems comparable?

 

[obeseotron]

My point was that his 1050@1.7v actually got into windows, and is perfectly stable at 980@1.7v, except for the AGP card (g400 sucks). I can't get into windows at 933@1.85v, and my PC sits 1 foot from and air conditioner. With the AC off for extended periods of time causes instability if it is a hot day.

The RAM is generic P3133 that I've verified as good up to 144Mhz bus with my handy p2 333 with no multiplier lock (2x150 wouldn't go). I have a Geforce DDR which I've tested at 103Mhz AGP (changed divider to 1/1).

I'm not unhappy about having 882Mhz, I was just excited about maybe having a gigahertz system.

My Full System

P3 700e SL3XX @ 882 @1.85v
Asus Slotket
MSI BX Master
128MB Generic PC133
Creative GF DDR
Vortex2
2 NICs
Maxtor 40GB 7200RPM
Maxtor 17GB 5400RPM
Pioneer 10X DVD
Ricoh 24x6x4 CDRW