Poll: The best o/c for P3 550E?

[hrky]

I am owner of Intel P3 550E on ASUS P3V4X. What is optimal and stable choice to overclock my processor and with what core voltage?

 

[Dark4ng3l]

what you are asking is diferent for every cpu so no one can tell you what your cpu can take

 

[CraigRT]

yeah they're all different but you will at least be able to hit about 124 FSB
not all mobos are capable of bringin 100MHz CuMines up to and over 133
my P3B-F wouldn't let me run at 133 BUS, and with my Soyo board now i can run at 137, i choose 135 for ultimate stability. (only 1.70V)

 

[tonyou]

My former roommate George took a P3 550E (cA0)up to 792MHz (144FSB x 5.5) with an Alpha PEP66. The voltage he used was 1.76.

Tony

 

[Rebels7]

I have a 550E and a P3V4X and I am able to overclock it to 825mhz using 150mhz FBS. I have the Antec 1030 case with two 80mm intake fans and two 80mm exhaust fans. In addition I have a 60mm blowing directly onto the processor itself (slot 1 variety, 1.7 V) and I also have a small heatsink mounted on the ICS chip with a 40mm fan blowing across it ICS and h/s fan

This system has been running like this for about 4 months without any major crashes.

 

[Netopia]

I've had a P3-550e (sold it in system) running nicely at 825MHz (150 FSB) at 1.75v with Gorb in an el cheapo Abit VA6 board. The board allows you to add or subtract 33MHz from the FSB, so I was able to run the FSB at 150 while only running the PC100 memory at 117.

Good friend of mine (BigDogg on this board) had the same setup and was able to get a stable 900MHz out of a P3-600e.

Joe

 

[Jen]

My 550E did 825mhz no problems at all........early stepping also. Wouldn't make 852mhz which was 155 bus. This was on a Asus P3V4X as well

Jen

 

[TechpimpDotCom]

I had an early PIII 550E Coppermine overclocked at stock voltage running completely stable at 840mhz on a Gigabyte GA-6VX-4X motherboard.

btw - this was a Slot1 not a FlipChip.

 

[Mohammad]

rebels so many fans.... i also am planning to overclock but i am thinking of starting off with only one fan ... should i go for more ...

 

[IaPuP]

All those fans a bit overkill.
If you're going to run the voltage over 1.8V, then extra cooling is a must.

Otherwise, you should be fine running with what you have there.

The cooler the chip runs, the faster it will run stable. that's something to keep in mind.

Eric

 

[Grminalac]

I currently Have my PIII 550 clocked nicely at 836 (152 FSB) on a Gigabyte GA-6VX-4X @ 1.80 core. I am running it on a iwill 370 to slot one card. I experienced problems before and was only able to run stable at 133FSB CAS3 memory, but the problems cleared up immediately after installing mushkin rev2 PC133. I now run at 152 CAS2 and it runs very very well. Gigabyte seems to be a stable board if using a adapter card to set core voltage.

 

[Wik]

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