Overclocking P3-650 on Aopen AX6BC

[agrall]

I have 256 MB of PC133 RAM, and I am currently running at the m-board at 100 MHz. It seems like if I overclock much at all, I start having hard drive problems.

Any recommendations? I think this m-board will allow me to run the PCI bus at lower speeds... What speeds should I try?

 

[agrall]

Anyone?

 

[Plester]

be more specific. what speeds have you tried. that board has no core voltage adjustment does it? if not that will hamstring you.

 

[Assimilator1]

What HDD have you got? what FSB speeds did you try?

Like Plester said ,we need more info

 

[agrall]

Well, just about any speed above 100 MHz seemed to give the HD problems...

I am trying now 117 MHz, but with a lower PCI bus setting. So far it seems more stable.

 

[BradS]

What kind of HD do you have?

 

[agrall]

Can't remember right off hand...it's at home. I have 2 HD's in the system...

 

[Plester]

in a perfect world you need to get to 133 w/ a 1/4 pci divider. 117 w/ 1/4 pci = 29mhz. often a pci running well below spec can act funky too, less so than at 39+mhz. have you tried 133. i have a 650E cB0 that does 866 at def. voltage, maybe you do too.

 

[agrall]

I'll try that tonight... Thanks.

 

[Assimilator1]

I guess it's a Maxtor! ,what do I win if I'm right?

 

[agrall]

I think you are right...

I think one hard drive is Maxtor make, and the other is IBM.

I now have the FSB at 124 MHz, for a speed of 806 MHz. So far it seems to be running well...

I tried 133, and I was getting some file errors on boot-up.(My anti-virus dll's actually...)

According to my hardware monitor, my temperature hasn't gone up at all, and my CPU voltage is still in the 1.65 range. (If I recall correctly...)

Maybe I'll stick with this for a while and see.

BTW, at what FSB speed does the PCI go to 1/4? I am assuming it is running at 1/4 at 124 MHZ...