Overclocking an athlon

[jacktesterson]

I have a AMD athlon 1.2 Ghz on a ECS K7VZA. (stats below). I have a Pentium 166 MMX on a Aopen AP58 motherboard, with 96 MB dimm Pc-66 ram. Is it possible to overclock these? how and by how much? They both have cooler master fans/heatsinks, Athlons rated 1.4 Ghz and Pentiums 200 Mhz. Can somebody help? I would like to try out.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

I'm not familar with the Aopen, but I never managed more than 200 out of my 166mx back in a day and the ECS has the award bios that lets you tweak multiplier&voltage. There are innumerable factors that affect overclocking but since the 1.2 T-birds and up all come unlocked my advice is tweak it till it rolls over and plays dead. worst case scenario: clearing cmos or turning off from powersupply clears up any bios tweaks. have fun

 

[o1die]

I am assuming you have a 266 1.4 athlon. You could try the pencil trick, but it is hit or miss, and I don't recommend it if your heatsink is hard to remove. By penciling in the third L7 bridge (to increase voltage to 1.85), and penciling in the second, third, and fourth bridge of the L6 bridges (to raise the multiplier to 11.5), you might be able to get 1533 out of your 1.4 t-bird. Or go for 11.0 (all 4 L6 bridges closed) for a possible speed of 1466.