Will the generic ram that I have limit my overclocking potential on a BE6 w/ a 1.1 P3?

[innuss]

HI,
I recently got a 1.1 p3 (100mhz) on my BE 6 & it's running fine. I'm
thinking about increasing the fsb to 112 for a 1232 overclock. I know
everything has risks but I want to know how safe it is to overclock at this speed if your memory is 100mhz and your not sure about the quality of the memory. I plan on using this cpu for a # of years so I don't want to do anything that could shorten it's lifespan, but if I have a machine that is safely capable of going higher, I'd like to do that. thanks, Matt

 

[rogue1979]

It will not hurt your hardware, however it is possible that instability can corrupt your OS. But it should be fine to give it a try, most of the time PC-100 can run 112MHz just fine. I think a P3 coppermine core is gonna be lucky to hit 1232Mhz.

 

[AcidzT]

he's right, jsut try it, but if u can go up slowly...

I have 256 mb of PC133

AND 128 of PC100 in my system, and this is cheap stuff, its running at 114mhz, i do start to encounter unstability at 115, but i dont know if its the ram, sometimes it works others it dont i think its my duron carpping out but who knows....

 

[MilkPowderR]

<< HI,
I recently got a 1.1 p3 (100mhz) on my BE 6 & it's running fine. I'm
thinking about increasing the fsb to 112 for a 1232 overclock. I know
everything has risks but I want to know how safe it is to overclock at this speed if your memory is 100mhz and your not sure about the quality of the memory. I plan on using this cpu for a # of years so I don't want to do anything that could shorten it's lifespan, but if I have a machine that is safely capable of going higher, I'd like to do that. thanks, Matt >>



Ram is not going to hurt your system. Generally, over-upping the voltages can damage/fry your system. Some PC100 overclock very well while some don't. My two sticks of PC100 RAM being used in my T-bird is running at 140- 143mhz FSB and no memory errors. Mine happens to be a lucky one. I assume your P3 1.1Ghz is the new stepping version right?? cauze you said you recently got it. Those overclock like crazy. Few of the guys I saw at overclockers.com are running that upto 1.46Ghz with just air-cooling, no more so overclocking it to a 112fsb would be(likely) too easy for your system including your RAM. Just about any PC100 RAM should be able to do 112fsb or more with zero number of errors.

 

[KokomoGST]

Yeah, it really does depend on how good the generic stuff is...
You might be running at CAS3 @100 already then I doubt you'll be able to get too far but 112 is reasonable.
If you got lucky then 124 might be worth a shot.

The Tualtin core P3 you have should be able to make it to 1.2GHz ok...
Before you up the system I/O voltage, you might wanna test stability with it at 3.4v since some components may not like the extra juice... especially the vidcard since you'll be pushing an AGP bus at around 75MHz at 112FSB. So if your vidcard doesn't like that, you may wanna play with the AGP settings like turning off AGP2X or sideband addressing.

 

[rogue1979]

The 1.1GHz P3 is not a Tualatin. There is a 1.13GHz version but it is a 133MHz fsb cpu, he has a 100Mhz version. The only 100MHz fsb version of the Tualatin is the 1.2GHz Celeron, which is exactly identical to the 1.13MHz, 1.2GHz, 1.26Mhz version except for the multiplier and fsb speed, those are 133Mhz cpu's. I think one version of the 1.26GHz has 512k L2 cache, while all of the others including the Celeron 1.2GHz have 256k.