overclocking

[3DK]

My friend has a Gigabyte GA-71XE4 motherboard.
He also has a Athlon 1GHz CPU.
He really wants to overclock it.
You can only change the fsb to overclock the cpu, but the fsb only goes to 115mhz.
So I installed CPUFSB and I overclocked the 1.0GHz to 1.19GHz.
For some reason I can't hit 1.2GHz, why?
The computer is very stable at 1.19GHz, is it because the pci bus goes back down to 30mhz after 119fsb?
The CPU at idle is 35 degrees celcius and 41 at max load.

Has any one overclocked higher then 190mhz above default cpu speed with the Gigabyte GA-71XE4?

Please I need some help, I really need tooverclock more.

 

[CTho9305]

Well, what you are doing is overclocking your whole computer. The way the CPU speed is determined is FSB * multiplier. The FSB is the bus speed, the speed which the CPU talks to all the other parts of the computer. The KT133 chipset is notoriously bad at bus overclocking. (Basically every athlon chipset other than the ones at 133 and DDR chipsets are bad for it). That is why.

But if you adjust the mutliplier, only the CPU speed is affected. Does your motherboard support multiplier adjustments? Adjusting it will require opening the case. If your CPU is locked (you will only know if the motherboard settings dont work), then you will have to take off your heatsink, unlock it (read the threads here) and carefully put the heatsink back on.