Overclocking Questions

[wutwut]

Ok, so i thought i'd try to oc my computer (just a tad). i have a 1.33 gig athlon with 266 fsb and 10.0 multiplier. i wasnt trying to do a major oc, but what i noticed is that i can change the multiplier w/o tracing the L1 bridges. Is this common? so anyways i changed it to 10.5, a .5 incriment, and went into wcpuid, and my system was at 1.4 gigs. cool, i guess. but i had some concerns as to if i am doing it correctly, cause all this time i was under the impression that i had to unlock the multiplier on athlon cpu's by tracing the brigde with a pencil or a conductive pen. if you have any further suggestions or thins i should watch out for in my oc'ing joruneys (i.e. cooling, etc.) tell me please, it would be appreciated.

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1.33ghz athlon @1401ghz
abit kg7-lite
256 ddr ram @ cas2

 

[DimZiE]

yeah w/ a locked multiplier processor you must connect the L1 golden bridges...

things to watch out for:
1.temps ,CPU temps should be around 45~55C (if u want it to last)
2.using a pencil to connect the bridges..will eventually wear off..
if u'r system started to boot at speeds different than what u set it to. check the pencil trace again
3.mobo temps should never exceed 35C IMO though
4.if u r tryin to go higher..invest some money on good HSF and some arctic silver paste
5.if u r experiencing instability probs you might want to up your VCore one step at a time until it is stable
note:i find upping Vcore is not necessary when o/c ing under 150MHz increase in CPU speed
6. you might want to test how stable it is by running benchies in loop mode or Prime95

i think that's all that matters to me

 

[wutwut]

um well the deal is i tried it and it works. i go to wcpuid and it says "running at 1.4 gigs" etc. so why would i need to connect the bridges?

 

[clstrfbc]

You might want to try upping the FSB instead of the multiplier.
It will speed up your whole system, (memory, pcibus, agp, cpu)
instead of just cpu, Testing has shown that FSB gets more performance gains than mult.
Try playing with it and seeing which one gets you most.
You might have to down the multiplier when you start getting high FSB.
Unfortunately im still running a pentium so i cant change the mult
Good luck and have fun

 

[jchu14]

Your bridge is already factory connected. This is normal. Most of the 1.2 gig tbird are factory unlocked and anything above is unlocked. If you look on teh cpu it self, you can see the L1's got gold color traces on it connecting the dots.

 

[wutwut]

Ok good, i just didn't want to do something out of the ordinary. On the comment about the fsb, i was thinking of doing fsb, but i dont want to stress out the rest of my system. i plan on keeping it 66 mhz agp and 33 mhz pci. the bios to me looks a little confusing, cause i dont really see a "bus divider" section. im new at this, so im a little confused. i do see a fsb rate, could these be the adjustment? And one off topic question, i was wondering how to get 4 way interleaving for my memory. i hear this makes it faster, but i dont believe i can adjust it via my bios. i do hear there's some programs that can do this. but my question is do some boards make 4 way interleaving a default setting, if so is it default for the kg7-lite? heh, thanks for bearing with my sketchy posts, im not too clear, that's for sure. thanks for the help and the quick replies!