Trouble-free overclocking

[dbal]

I own a slot1 Pentium III 550E with 100Mhz FSB and after days of running I am happy to announce to my beloved forum that I have attempted and easily succeeded to overclock@733 mhz, rock steady. The motherboard is a good old stable overclocker too (ABIT BE6) with the legendary Intel 440BX chipset. Points to highlight? The Pentium has no problem at all playing that high reaching a maximum of only 39C after heavy 3D gaming (e.g. Max Payne) or cd writing without any lock ups or stuff like that, showing that it's boots are made for.....overclocking, at the default voltage!(1,65) The memory issue is simple as long as u get PC133 Dimms and then it's the buses section with all the devices connected. Thank god the 440bx gives u the posibility of PCI=FSB/4 that is 133/4= 33,25 mhz exactly the nominal PCI speed value. And here is the only real tough path to go through-the AGP card. With the limited chipset option of AGP=FSB or FSB*(2/3) the price u get when running at 133 is 89MHz faaaaaaaaaar from that 66mhz the books say. This is why my ATi Radeon VE makes me proud-apart from its excellent framerates, quality and twin monitor capabilities it keeps on working steadily at frequencies where other cards don't even let the system boot (yeah, GeForce 2 MX 400 I mean, seen it with my eyes). A real monster from ATi showing their teeth to all those OEM manufacturers who create cards that don't even remind you of the chipset they are supposed to be built on. Buy only originals or from famous vendors that is to guarantee chipset quality and maybe more than that in terms of overclocking stability, better quality etc. Loved to share these with you all-kisses

 

[FlippyBoy]

congrats, nice overclock i always knew ati had their stuff together. now if only they were as good at drivers.......

 

[dbal]

I know the story my friend about the Radeon 8500 and it's suffering of drivers that will expose all the strength it has-just have to mention that I encounter no prob with my Radeon VE in terms of software compatibility, stability and performance (I got the same fps average in 3D Winbench test with a Pentium 4 1,5Ghz running an OEM nVidia GeForce2 MX 400!!)

 

[Battousai1]

HOW DID YOU DO THAT!!!???!?!?! A 440BX CHIPSET?!?!?! how did you managed to overclocked the motherboard to 133 Mhz FSB? I mean I also have the same processor Pentium III 550E Katmai Slot 1 a intel i440BX/ZX chipset, has a nVIDIA GeForce 2 MX200. man please tell me how to do that! that totally AMAZING!!!! did the system run steadily? please tell me if i can do that! I havent tried overclocking the FSB more than 112 Mhz, the fastest I had is 112 Mhz and never tried higher because of the fear that my RAM might blow off, btw I have a PC100 RAM thats why I didnt tried overclocking it higher, can you tell me if I can do that? I have a Tomato ZX98-AT, ATX board and intel i440BX/ZX chipset, and im planning to replace my RAMs with PC133's btw how can the 133 Mhz FSB overclocked divided the FSB to? 133 divided to 4? and what about the AGP slot? how does the 133 Mhz divide it to?

 

[dbal]

Dear friend at first u don't have the same processor cuz Katmai and Coppermine have a big difference called L2cache which in your cpu runs at half the processor speed- as a result I don't know how far your cpu can get in terms of possible overclocking limitations. Second it's almost sure that your VGA won't like at all running at 89Mhz AGP bus-probably won't even start or will crash during heavy gaming. As for the FSB settings, all are made through Abit's soft menu according to the 440bx specs and FSB dividing options. Good luck!

 

[Acanthus]

i had 733 on my P3 550e slot1 on an abit Be-6-2, never a problem. now ive got my good old athlon tb 1400@1425 with a 150bus, no problems, trying to get to 200fsb but i need pc3200 cl2 to get released...... HURRY UP TWINMOS!





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[cookieman]

Nice Oc dbal, congrats.

Cheers,