PIII 866 over a ghz?

[smokey7722]

Well here is my problem. I have a PIII 866, with stock cooling in an Asus CUSL2. I have a stick of Crucial 256mb CAS-2 memory and a Matrox G400 MAX. Thats all I have in the machine so far (I am waiting for the case to come and I wanted to see what this thing could do so I layed it all out on a table and fired it up, hey I am excited). Well the highest I can get this thing to go is 945mhz. That is the highest that stays stable. I can get it to go all the way up to 988mhz but it is not completely stable (I haven't played with changing the power yet, but I need an idea on how much is too much to give it). I get 988 when I choose 152mhz FSB. Now when I select 153, and I reboot, the processor will get detected as a 433E? Anything above 152 will be detected as a 433E. I really want to get this over a ghz but it doesn't seem like it wants to. I need some help here. Thanks

 

[smokey7722]

By the way, I forgot to say that the processor is not going over 80 degrees F at any time.

 

[lowkey]

153 fsb might just be to much. You can up the cpu power to 1.7 and it should run more stable. And 80f is not hot at all for the cpu. So its probly just some other part of the computer not the chip.

 

[smokey7722]

OK, I will try that, I have the machine still at work so I will be back there on Tuesday. I can play more then. I need to get it to run at 154FSB.

 

[TuffGuy]

it already has a 133mhz fsb, so getting it to 150 might be a stretch. also, you need to upgrade to v1002.002 of the bios to fix the mobo's 'memory' problems.

 

[smokey7722]

Thats the beta right? Are there any known problems with it? What exactly does it fix?