Overclock tips for Abit KT7 RAID with Thunderbird 750

[TatSteeL]

I have never Overclock any of my proccessor before so I need all the help and tips I can get. If you're experience with overclocking help me out, I am trying overclocking my Thunderbird 750 up to 900, 950 or 1GH if possible basicly for gaming and spread sheet, word proccessing, school stuff and most of all SPEED.

 

[Zedfu]

first of all, you gotta have a reliable hsf that will dissipate heat from a oc'ed processor. next, you gotta find out whether your processor is unlocked or not. you can find this out easily on the kt7 by going into bios and changing your multipliers to, example, 8. if your pc boots up at 800mhz(100x8) then it's unlocked. otherwise, it's locked so check this out. after reading the article, you'll have a much better sence on overclocking. the first suggestion is to unlock multipilers and max it out first, then move on to fsb adjustments. if system becomes unstable, try bumping the voltage up a notch or two depending on how much you overclock. also note that you don't overclock the fsb too much (it's limit is 115 max for stability). since ram runs asynchronous (mispelled?) to fsb, you also gotta make sure your rams can take the overclock. it's suggested to bump ram setting down to CL3 from the faster CL2. also, isa/pci/ago slots are also overclocked as they rely on fsb for timing. therefore oc'ing fsb also oc slots. on stock pci run on 33mhz, isa 16mhz and agp 66. it's not recommended to run these slots 5mhz higher than stock. if you prefer not to oc your pci, etc. slots, then use the "cpu mhz plus" under softmenu3 in bios.
anyways, if you have any questions, just ask. good luck

 

[Renob]

List everything that is going into you system then we can tell you what you sould be able to OC to BTW I have built five t-bird 750 systems this month on KT7 board and used good ram at CAS-2 and they all did at least a gig 3 of them did 1100 11x100 but were running them a 10x105 1050mhz they get higher benchmark and frames per seconds in games at this setting...........Good luck and have fun..

 

[Losty]

i think that even though you oc' the FSB plus...the pci/agp/isa will also oc...
with most amd's it's unlikely to oc more than 110 ... some can't handle 105...

 

[TatSteeL]

Ok this is what's in my systems. What are the reccommendation Renob? what kind of heatsink and fan best use with o/c?

Abit KT7-RAID
AMD Thunderbird 750mhz (retail box, with heatsink/fan, but is is good fan? I don't know)
Creative Labs PCI-512
Creative Labs Banshee 16MB RAM
USB Network Card with Cable Modem hook up
Linsys 10/100 NIC
196 RAM PC-100 CAS2
3Com Winmodem 3595
Western Digital 20GB ATA-66

 

[paulip88]

Side note:
If you really want to make your games run faster, I would recommend that you get a newer video card too. The banshee will really limit you in terms of FPS.

 

[Renob]

Get a new hsf, a new video card, and some good pc-133 ram. You could over clock that chip to 2gigs and your gameing would suck with that video card plus you wont get very far with that hsf unless you have killer case setup thats blowing in fresh cool air and sucking out the warm air.. and last but not least you need to get very good ram because for the best overclocking you want to up the cpu clock setting and the FSB setting and cheap ram dose not overclock very well. Hope this info helps....