Overclocking a SLOT A THUNDERBIRD??? is it possible???

[OneOfTheseDays]

is this even possible. I ask this because i just ordered a 900mhz slot a thunderbird. I want to overclock this like i did my old classic athlon. Does it work with a gfd, and do i have to take the casing off like i had to with my classic athlon.

 

[BurntKooshie]

Yup, you can overclock, with a GFD, and via the FSB. Note that on KX133 boards, stability tended to degrade at higher clock speeds, due to the timing issues being exacerbated (KX133 doesn't officially support the T-bird).

 

[dkozloski]

I have a slotA Tbird 900 that I have been running at 1100 for months. You must use a motherboard with either an AMD Irongate or a hybrid chipset. I use a K7M ASUS. I cut a hole in the cartridge and use a home made GFD set at 10x and a 110Mhz FSB. The machine is so stable it is boring.

 

[madthumbs]

I have a kx133 in the abit ka7. I had to update the bios to get stability above 900MHz, the bios also has a cache divisor setting, but even the older ones with the cache divisor wouldn't do over 900 without problems. I had a 700 clocked to 1.01GHz until the goldfinger died.

 

[OneOfTheseDays]

sounds good, i have the asus k7m and its good to know that i can overclock this with my existing gfd.

 

[dkozloski]

Performance is best if you have a K7M that is of a revision new enough that super Bypass is enabled in CMOS.