p3v4x PIII 600 how much did u overclock?????

[Hungy]

I have a PIII 600. I have it running at 800 stable at 1.65 v
I want to see if any of u got it any higher and if so at what voltage?

Thanks

 

[BAMAVOO]

Most I ever got out of mine was 840 @1.70 Never pushed any higher.Now I got the Gig don't push too much anymore..

 

[Assimilator1]

Well its not a 600 ,but I've got my PIII 650 @ 820MHz @1.7v ,it will go to 878MHz but until I change the graphics card I'm stuck at 126FSB

 

[Hungy]

The funny thing is that I ran 3dmark 2000 at various speeds. 1st the 600 and that gave me a score of 4400 and then at 800 and that gave me 4866 but then i overcloced it to 852 and the funny thing was that 3dmark then gave a score of 4830 and I was confused. Shouldnt it have gotten a better score? I didnt understand, i got my computer at a higher mhz but it gave a lower 3dmark score. Then i got it to 900 but it would not finish 3dmark, and only finsihed 15 out of 20 test. does that means it is unstable?

 

[Assimilator1]

I don't understand that lower score at 852MHz either ,are you sure you didn't chnage anything?

Then i got it to 900 but it would not finish 3dmark, and only finsihed 15 out of 20 test. does that means it is unstable?

If it locked up or dropped out to the desktop then yes it is unstable ,did you try a higher cpu voltage?

 

[hanybanoub]

Assimilator1 what are u using for cooling and what's your temps running at?

I've got a similar setup as u, but I use a GORB (with radio shack paste), and testing it with seti gives temps of 41 C. (a 650 o/c to a meager 715).

Either the Gorb suck for slot 1 or I'm doing something wrong

 

[Assimilator1]

1 thing my S1 PIII 650 is a cBo stepping ,find your S code of your cpu & check it here to see which stepping you have.Earlier cA2 steppings didn't overclock as high.
As far as hsf goes it's nothing special ,just a Globalwin VNS04 ,though I do have 2 extra case fans ,inlet & exhaust.
My Soyo 6BA+III m/brd (bios BA4) measures cpu temps via the thermal diode.
Right now running SETI I'm getting these temps
CPU temp 45C
Case temp 31C
Room temp 24C

Doesn't your cpu go higher? have you tried a higher cpu voltage?

BTW are you in a SETI team? ,if not why not join us at SETI Team Anandtech & say hello in the DC forum section?.Check out my sig if your interested.

 

[EvilDonnyboy]

My Slot1 cB0 650 is at 897@1.85v. Cooled by a S1 gorb, w/ included paste.

It won't go any higher without stability problems. Tops out at a toasty 51C, and it'll get hotter in the summer. I may have to downclock it to 877 when the seasons change. If i had Arctic silver and some case fans (i only got my PS's fan) i may be able to get near/over 1ghz.

 

[Hungy]

At 852 mhz for some reason it recieved a lower 3dmark score then at 800. Someone told me it was due to the fact that at 142 bus speed that is not a stable pci bus speed. Can this be a factor? 852mhz = lower 3dmark score then when I have it at 800mhz. That does not make sense to me. Its stable at 852 but i figure if it is getting a lower score then there is not point, and no I did not change anything to the settings between the 2 tests.

 

[hanybanoub]

Thanks Assimilator1 for your response

Mine is a cBo model, so it's not a problem.

The most I've pushed it to was 754 I believe, and that was with the regular hsf. Now that I've finally put a GORB on it properly with the paste, I haven't tried much higher that 715.

Once I pushed it to a bit above 760+ (via fsb and a bit of extra voltage) and I "lost" my dual boot windoze installation. Even going back to its stock speed, and even underclocking it to 433 produced nothing. It was very strange.

I'm going to try to increment slowly, and save increasing the voltage to the end if it's stubborn.

And then I'll join you guys on the seti team, but only if I'm "qualified" with at least an 800 mhz on this cpu...lol

 

[Assimilator1]

Hehe ,you don't need to hit 800 to join our team ,come on over now

Ref your losing the dual boot ,it sounds like your HDD didn't like the high(ish) PCI bus speed(around 39MHz with FSB at 117MHz) & corrupted the files.I would suggest you image your hard drive before trying again unless you can choose a lower PCI bus speed.
What m/brd & HDD's do you have? is 1 of the HDD's a Maxtor?

I hope I'm not jumping the gun when I say.........

Welcome to our Team

Pop over to the DC forum & say hello (perhaps in this thread )

Hungy

Look at each test result individually to see which 1's were underscoring ,that may shed some light.BTW I doubt it's to do with the PCI speed .If your system is stable it shouldn't be a problem.

 

[hanybanoub]

Thanks Assimilator1 for your help and thoughts

I'll join you guys as soon as I get home.

I learned after that "incident" of loosing everything and made an image with Ghost and burned it onto cds. That product is excellent. A must have in my opinion (along with partitionmagic).

I have 2 hard drives, a scsi and an IDE. The IDE is my main, and it's a seagate I believe. The ram is PC133 I think, and probably generic.

Yesterday I was running seti and playing UT for quite a while, and the temp stayed around 40C, making me happy But then again, I'm only o/c to 715, and I'll have to try small incrmental jumps. I'd really like to get at least 800, at least. I know that an o/c isn't really worth it if it's less than 10 per cent of the native clock speed.

Could you please explain the settings to me? I understand fsb, but I'm not sure of the other numbers next to it. Do they represent the PCI, ram, or... and could I possibly lower them? I have read that scsi and network cards are especially senstive to fsb.

I know that pushing the fsb also increases the bus of the other components, possibly shortening their lifespan. The cpu isn't an issue for me, but my other components are (GF2, etc).

Sorry for the novel, and many thanks for all your advice and input

 

[dadx2mj]

I have my P3 600 coppermine running at 841 Mhz at default voltage of 1.65. I have a Global Win VOS-32 and with SETI running 24/7 my temp never gets about 36C. My mobo is an Asus P3V4X

 

[Assimilator1]

dadx2mj

Nice overclock you have ,mine being a Slot1 doesn't have the nice HSF options you get for the FCPGA version .
BTW are you in a SETI team?

hanybanoub

What m/brd do you have? (make,model & revision number) ,only then can we know if you have different PCI bus speeds for certain FSB speeds.(eg my Soyo has 124/41 or 124/31 ,FSB/PCI)

 

[hanybanoub]

Assimilator1, I have an Asus P3V4X mobo, bios version 1005,

my supported fsb/pci speeds are:

66/33, 68/34, 75/37.5, 80/40, 83/41, 85/28, 90/30, 95/31, 100/33, 103/34, 105/35, 110/36, 112/37, 115/38, 116/38, 118/39, 120/40, 124/31, 126/31.5, 130/32.5, 133/33, 135/34, 138/34.5, 140/35, 142/35.5, 144/36, 146/36.5, 148/37, 150/37.5, 155/39, 160/40, 166/41.5

And at the moment I'm running the native 650 at 112/37, with the GORB (mounted on properly finally, and with some Radio Shack paste) at 728, and with seti and playing UT, the cpu temp will be around 38-40 C.

Thanks Assimilator1

cheers

 

[Moving Target]

My PIII600 will do 900 on my P3V4 at 1.85v, but I run it at 800 and 1.65v. Didn't see enough of a diff to justify the higher temp and voltage increase.

 

[DanStp]

I have a P3 Slot 1 650 the new stepping, it's running at 910 Mhz now it will do more........tops off just under 930 if I can remember, but I run in flat out 24/7 so I backed it off some. I have an ALPHA heatsink, and have a small heatsink on the ICS clock generator chip. My temps are high around 50 C flat out.

 

[Assimilator1]

Moving Target
I take it you don't run any Distributed Computing progs then!

hanybanoub
No probs ,BTW what is your SETI name?

Danstp
Have we meet before? hehe,awesome speed out of that 650! ,mine tops out at 878MHz.

 

[hanybanoub]

Assimilator1, my temps are now at 52 C with both Seti and UT. I'm going to wait for the VOS32 before continuing any further. The GORB starts out ok, but then as time passes by, the cpu gets hotter.

Not surpiringly, W2k manages the cpu heat better than Win ME. Perhaps because of its' built in HALT instr. Someone said ME has this also, but by judging from the temps I got on it, I doubt it

Strangely even when I run rain or other cooling programs with ME, it doesn't seem to make much, if any, of a difference

But this is all good fun

 

[Assimilator1]

Rain or the halt instructions in w2k won't do anything whilst SETI is running ,because SETI will take up the spare cpu time.If you turn SETI off(!:Q) & then turn Rain on & off you should see a significant temperature difference.

BTW ,your SETI name is?

 

[hanybanoub]

Assimilator1, it's hany banoub

But like I mentioned, I'm not running it at the moment until better cooling arrives. The machines starts out at a nice 28 C temp, then slowly it'll creep up, all while doing 'regular' work/browsing/email etc.

Btw, if you're interested in a GREAT deal on ram, go
here and lmk

Cheers

 

[RJRD2]

I have a 550e on my p3v4x at 814 1.65v

 

[SnoopyDog]

Hi there

Got my 600E up and running as a 800EB on 1.65V voltage.

Snoopy Dog

 

[Hungy]

Anyone know why I get a lower 3dmark score when running my computer at 852mhz compared to 800mhz?

 

[Assimilator1]

Did you look at the 3DMark indvidual tests to see which one(s) showed as being lower scoring?

1 thought ,is the RAM CAS timings staying the same for each FSB? ,perhaps it is automatically setting CAS3 at the higher FSB?