PIII 533 Overclocking

[DarkPhalanx]

Hi, I'm kinda new to this thing , so take it easy on me..lol. I have a PIII 533EB on an Asus P3V4X, 512 MB of 133 Mhz. SDRAM, and a nVidia GeForce 2 Ultra 32 Mb. I know this is an old setup, just about ancient by standards these days, but until I have enough cash to get a P4 and a GeForce Ti 4600, I'd like to see what I can do with the setup that I have, meaning, I'd like to be able to overclock my 533 as much as I can without it frying, and being able to overclock my Videocard as well. Any help on this matter, and how to go about it, is much appreciated. Thanks gang.

[strokeside]

Your board is overclocking freindly, so when you boot up again, go into the BIOS, by hitting del, or whatever it tells you. Increase your Front-Side Bus (motherboard speed) up a bit. Save and reboot and go into windows, run a new-ish game for a while. If it doesn't crash, repeat those steps until it does. When it does, go back to the setting before that crashing one.
If you feel you have enough cooling, you could increase the Vcore by a little, and repeat the above overclocing. The overclock you get should increase.

As for your GFX card, get NVmax, install it, and up the clock of your GPU a bit, run a game for a while. If it doesn't crash, repeat those steps until it does. When it does, go back to the setting before that crashing one. Do the same for the RAM, and that is you pretty overclocked.

Next start monitoring your temps to see if you do need better cooling, and start tweaking your BIOs settings for a faster machine. If you don't know what something in the BIOs does, search for it on the net. If not luck, ask a question here

[DarkPhalanx]

Thanks for the awesome advise Strokeside. One thing though. When I go into my Bios, the items such as multiplyer and FSB are locked I believe. I'm at work now, but when I get home, I'll recheck this right away, and I was also told to see if there is an update for my Bios, which I've never updated. Thanks again, and I'll be sure to keep in contact with my findings. BTW, when you say enough cooling, I still have the stock Pentium fan ,on my chip. What would be the considered "adequate temperature range" for my CPU?

[KILLorBE]

The multiplier is always locked unless you have an ES chip or an AMD (ES=Engineering Sample).
You need to set CPU speed to manual (Page 56 of your user manual).

Install MBM (http://mbm.livewiredev.com/) for temp monitoring, But don't forget to Calibrate (http://www.arcticsilver.com/diode_calibration.htm) the diode.

You should try to keep full load temp under 50C (122F), but I would say 45C (112-114F)MAX. is better.

Use F@H or SETI and a prog like BURNK7 (http://members.home.nl/rick2001/BURNK7.EXE) to stress your CPU and see if it's stable.