Slot A Overclocking

[lmlWingerlml]

Since the Slot-A is such a bitch to overclock (by means of multiplier changing) I was wondering how far (in your opinion) it is safe to push the front side bus. Right now I have it stable at 112 MhZ on a Gigabyte 7IXE.

 

[Generalen]

I think you are pritty lucky with a 112 FSB the old AMD motherboards diden't overclocked much more than a few mhz on FSB- overclocking. You should crack open your AMD CPU and buy a Goldfinger device (It's called that, right?) and from there play around with multiplier settings. But it's pritty difficult to do that, and the "GFD" is pritty expensive.

 

[Electric Amish]

Push it until it's unstable. Just like anything else.

amish

 

[SeventySeven]

It seems to depend on the chipset and the type of Slot A (Classic or T-bird)... I've had a T-bird on a VIA KX-133 up to 119. The max I got a Classic was 115.

But Electric Amish is right... Just keep pushing it. All systems are different, and you'll never know what you're going to get.

 

[knutp]

I would say that a gfd (golden finger device) is the best choice. I got a 700 mhz slot-a running at 850 completely stable. It's been running 24/7 for quite some time now, and I haven't seen a chrach since i got the gfd.

You could be able to find one cheap in the fs/ft forum, or at some online auctions.

A friend got his gfd not so long time ago, and he got it running at 1000 mhz completely stable (he had a 750 mhz prosessor, with a 900 mhz core)

but the thing is with the gigabyte board you got do you have any kind of l2 cache timings? If you got a 700 mhz prosessor it will not go alot further without crashing. the 700 mhz prosessor was the last with 1/2 l2 cache, the 750 to 850 (i think) has a 2/5 l2 cache, and from 900 and up there is a 1/3 l2 cache.

But there are som software that would change the l2 timings so it should be fine. Im running a asus k7v that has the l2 timings in the bios, and my friend got the abit ka7, that also got the l2 cache timings in the bios.

 

[SeventySeven]

If the Slot A chip is a Thunderbird you don't have to worry about the L2 cache, it'll be running at the same speed as the processor... But, if it is a Classic, you'll need to decrease the L2 cache speed like knutp said. I recommend you look for a download of Mathlon... it takes care of this at boot-up.

And, for a GFD, I'd recommend checking out: http://www.northwindcomputers.com

I have their GFD Rev 3.0, got it for like $27 / shipped, and my Slot A 750 (800 core) hits 950 easily, and I'm shooting for 1 Ghz plus once I feel like messing with it again.