Request for K6-2 300 overclocking advice

[Ulf Vulcan]

Processor: AMD K6-2 300 MHz
Motherboard: EPoX EP-MVP3G

How much do you recommend I overclock it and with what settings?
TIA. 🙂

 

[easton]

Good luck that is not a very good chip to overclock if it is first release core. this sight had a good article on that before, but i dont know if it is still in the database

 

[pandaflux]

If you have decent RAM try to up the fsb to 112 * 3 = 336. It depends on the revision of your board as to what voltage settings you have. I wouldnt go higher than 2.5 without very good cooling but its up to you.

matthew

 

[Ulf Vulcan]

96MB RAM

Revison of the board? I have no idea. I bought both mobo and CPU in May -99.

Multiplier: 3x and Clock: 100MHz is standard on this.
Do I understand you correctly in that you don't recommend overclocking since it requires either going to 112MHz or going over 3x and both requires more cooling?😕

 

[easton]

look on the side of the last isa slot or on the corner for the rev> number

 

[Zephyr]

I tried to o/c my K6-2 300, first rev. once. Didn't go very well, it wouldn't do more than 333 on a 3.5 x 95MHz , which I actually found to be less attractive than 3.0 x 100. I tried to go for 3.5 x 100, but no go. Ofcourse I never tried 3.0 x 112 since by board was not capable of doing 112FSB. I'm thinking that might be your best shot at o/c'ing this chip. If your board can't do 112MHz FSB either I can honestly recommend o/c'ing... well try 3.5 x 100 maybe but I doubt you'll have any luck with it. also watch the tempearture, I worked on a K6-2 350 once that ran 55C with a standard HSF combo (actually I tried several, with no differnece), on standard Vcore.

 

[easton]

333 or 350 is not much of an improvement anyhow........ is it worth the effort??

 

[Ulf Vulcan]

It says "Rev 0.4"

Options are:
66 / 75 / 83 / 95 / 100 / 112
2.5x / 3x / 3.5x / 4x / 4.5x / 5x / 5.5x
2.1V / 2.2V / 2.4V / 2.8V / 2.9V / 3.2V

(Now at 100, 3x, 2.2V)

Worth the effort? Well, I'd like to give it a try. I haven't overclocked before. I'm planning on getting new mobo/pcu/RAM in 3-6 months so until then I could try it.🙂

 

[easton]

you can get an amd k6-2 500 for abut 50 bucks and oc that now youll notice