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Stability of this overclock..

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Dhanu

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Has anyone overclocked a system with the same or similiar components and been stable without any data loss or corruption:

Iwill KK 266-R
1 GHz AMD 266 MHz Thunderbird
256 MB Crucial 133 MHz Memory (CAS 2)
Wester Digital Caviar 7200 rpm 20 GB


FSB: 142 MHz
Multiplier: 8.5 MHz
Core Voltage: Automatic by BIOS
VIO Voltage: +5%


 
I have a similar system:

AMD Athlon-c 1.2GHz
Iwill KK266
Crucial 256MB PC133 CAS2
Maxtor 20Gig hard drive

I have it overclocked like so:
RAM: 161MHz, CAS3
CPU: 1.36Ghz
VIO voltage: +5%

I haven't had any data loss or corruption, no crashes during games. The first motherboard was crappy (the secondary IDE connectors weren't working), but after I got it replaced all was well. I compile a lot of programs under linux (which is quite memory, cpu, and disk intensive, kernel compilations as well), and I haven't had any problems that can be attributed to the hardware of my system. I am going to try for a higher bus speed soon.

I have run numerous tests to check the stability of my system, because I couldn't stand it when my friends thought my K6-300 comp was crappy since it crashed (seemed to only crash when they were there for some reason) all the time because i overclocked it to 448Mhz. Ever since i've been really particular about my system being stable. I've used Prime95, RC5, CounterStrike, 3dmark2001, SuperPi, Video capture from my TV TUner card, video playback while running the cpu at 100% with Prime95 (this helped me find out that my mem was unstable, had to lower VIO voltage from +10%). Hope this helps you.

EDIT: Added VIO voltage of stable overclock for clarification
 
The only data corruption I have had has been down to the VIA/SBLive bug, and this manifested itself when I copied large compressed files from my CD-ROM to my HD, which resulted in CRC errors when I uncompessed them. I wanted to stick with the March LuckyDaze BIOS which does not have a built in fix for the problem so I just installed the VIA 4.32 drivers and they fixed the problem perfectly!!
 
If you have a KK266 / KK266-R Then make sure you upgrade your bios up to the April release. It fixes the SBLive / 686B problems in hardware. Also the May one makes it so that you get your speed displayed in GHz increments if you're using a processor that's using over a gig. 🙂 Pretty spiffy stuff!
 
All CPUs overclock differently...so you may have lucked out and gotten a poor OC 1ghz 🙁
 
I have a kk266, a 1.33 tbird
Crucial pc133 cas2
Ibm 75gxp 45gig 7200rpm
Using the 5/15/01 bios(more memory tweaks =) )

FSB-143
Multiplier-10.5
Core-1.85
Vio-+5%
Have never had any data corruption or lockups whatsoever!
 
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