P3700 & BX6rev2

[Grendel99]

Hello all. I recently got a P3700 (for christmas ) and have had a BX6 rev 2 mobo. I was wondering does anyone else have this combo and have you overclocked? A friend of mine keeps tellin me I can't overclock this proc on this mobo becuase of the BX chipset. But I have seen around on the net that people have. Was wondering how your bios is setup.
Thanks In advance.
G99

 

[Insomnium]

Sure you can overclock it, but you'll be limited by your vid card since there's no 1/2 AGP divider on the BX. Other than that inconvience, it's just standard overclocking (fsb increasing) as far as the bios goes.

Oh, and make sure you have ram capable of running at high fsb speeds, i.e. PC133 and you're set

 

[KR]

Tell your friend to go suck lemons.

It will work great. Like was said, the only limiter is your Graphics card since the AGP will be overclocked. At FSB's of 117 and above a 1/4 divider is provided for PCI/IDE timing so you should be in very good shape. I'm running 992MHZ with a PIII-800e on the same motherboard.

 

[Roguetech]

I was looking at the BIOS updates, and the fastest they list is the 700... How are you running an 800? Planning on upgrading soon....

 

[jaygee]

Have had a Bx2.R2 for a while, with

300 PII at 464
450 PIII at 621
650 PIII at 839
850 PIII at 995

Strange, getting 4 CPU udgrades out of the same MOBO.

 

[KR]

The PIII-800e is set up using "user defined" settings in the softbios of the BX6R2. It may not be "officially" supported but it works great at 124FSB X 8 (intel's famous locked multiplier). 992MHZ needs 1.85V but 936MHZ (where I usually run) is a mere 1.7V Core and either the Retail HSF or G/Orb keep things below 40C even with an ambient of 85F in the room.

With the latest bios a PIII-700e is officially supported but any chip with up to a 9 or 9.5 multiplier should work with "user defined" settings. I think Abit chose to not recognize the higher speed PIII's automatically to guide people toward their newer products which also offer (officially) faster memory support and newer faster ATA66 and ATA100 controllers, 4X AGP, etc.

Since my memory was able to make it to 117 CAS2 (124 CAS3) and everything else is still happy with the bus speed (PCI is actually underclocked a tiny bit) I'm happy as a pig in s**t with the upgrade from a C300A/450 to a PIII-800/936(992)MHZ for under $200.

 

[Roguetech]

Ahhh... Thanx. Unfortuantly, it may be a moot point, since I think I screwed my memory sub-system. Damn thing won't get past the BIOS portion of a boot at 133, and Win2K has a "file is missing or corrupt" as low as 117 (didn't try lower than that). Was stable as high as 142. But, I'll buy new memory first, then, that's not the problem, I'll worry about getting a new MB.