Overclocking with SOYO-6BA+3 Motherboard

Hi,guys!!!
My motherboard is SOYO-6BA+3 and I would like to know how much I can overclock my system...
P3 - 650Mhz-Slot 1
4X128 CD RAM
Do you have any ideas???

Thank you in advance for you help!!!

Regards - Dess

Welcome to the Forums!

I have that same board, with a PentiumII 350. I was able to go as high as 142FSB (500Mhz) easy, with a 5% vcore increase. After that, my S3 Graphics card started to crap out (there is no AGP divisor on BX boards...). I would say the only limiting factor, given that your RAM is capable and your CPU is good, would be the AGP...

Try 133 with a 2.5% vcore increase, and see if you can run prime for 24hours...if not, run it at 5%, and make sure your cooling is sufficient...I wouldn't suggest 7.5-10% unless you have some REALLY good cooling on there...

both of you guys should consider getting a celeron tualatin 1.0 to 1.2 ghz (maybe 1.3) and a slot-T convertor and overclock to 1.5-1.6 ghz and your computer will be a lot faster...

i have a soyo 6ba+iv and it is essentially the same as the 6ba+iii but with the ata-66...anyway i had a p3 700 at 933 on that board before i sold the chip on ebay for 75 bucks then bought the slot-t from www.strattoncomputer.com and a celeron-tualatin from www.googlegear.com for 40 bucks...

these celeron-tualatins also have 256 kb of ondie cache---so they are essentially a p3, but at 0.13 micron process so they can be clocked higher....

my PCMARK2002 went from 2400 to 4000 and my sisoft benchmarks also nearly doubled....trust me this is a great upgrade...

the slot-t cost 30 bucks shipped and the chip is only 40 shipped...

then double your computer speed...

I had a celly 1.1a when they first came out...did 1562 with it on an Abit VH6T...that seems like ages ago now. I have also retired the PII I mentioned above. It still works, it's just in the corner not being used for anything...

Hi

The most important is to realize that BX chipset boards use the agp divider of 2/3 all the way up from 100 MHz. This is because BX chipset does not have the 1/2 agp divider.

So by fsb 133 the agp is overclocked with 33 %. Some graphics cards can make it. Per example many geforce2, original ati radeons, all voodoo3 and newer. One can also use a pci graphics card.
Normally better BX boards with fsb 133 and higher has the pci divider 1/4 and so pci is not overclocked. This 1/4 divider normally switch in at fsb124.

It is obvious that 6.5x133 should be tried. Can you adjust cpu voltage ? if not, there are the taping methods.

Of course ram has to be able to run 133 or more.

best regards

John

takiwa said:

Welcome to the Forums!

I have that same board, with a PentiumII 350. I was able to go as high as 142FSB (500Mhz) easy, with a 5% vcore increase. After that, my S3 Graphics card started to crap out (there is no AGP divisor on BX boards...). I would say the only limiting factor, given that your RAM is capable and your CPU is good, would be the AGP...

Try 133 with a 2.5% vcore increase, and see if you can run prime for 24hours...if not, run it at 5%, and make sure your cooling is sufficient...I wouldn't suggest 7.5-10% unless you have some REALLY good cooling on there...

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Is this board Tualatin capable or did u mod the chip? i thought that u cant put a tuallatin in a normal FC-PGA slot.

We are talking about a slot-T adapter from www.upgradeware.com as Dustybird mentions in his thread.

This adapter is so cheap, and the mentioned 6BA+3 is a slot1, so an adapter is needed anyway.

Socket370 fcpga boards can be modified (if they are BX chipset). But also here upgradeware has an adapter, 370GU, that works on all chipsets (also VIA).

Also socket370 ppga boards can be modified. But this a very hard mod. Some specialists saw it as a challenge with Abit ZM6:

http://www.geocities.com/_lunchbox/tualeron_zm6_mod.html

best regards

John

thanks man. good info

RichRymer10 said:

Is this board Tualatin capable or did u mod the chip? i thought that u cant put a tuallatin in a normal FC-PGA slot.

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Rich,
You can buy a GU370 adapter for a socket 370. it will make a fcpga accept a fcpga2 tualatrin chip. Ive heard it works fine. I myself have one.....I am recieving a tually 1.1 on friday and will put it in a soyo SY-7VCA. I can run my current PIII 866 at 936 143fsb. I hope to run the tually at 1.5.

RichRymer10 said:

thanks man. good info

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Just a little advise...I personally would steer clear of the Quantum fireball as some are known to burn...I don't mean crash...I mean an actually visable burn line on the board. Ive seen this happen many times in my job as my company uses these as stock HDD's.
And im not talking about overclocked systems...just general home use. Id go with an IBM or WD(remember WD's don't like jumpers).

i have noticed that this is a pretty bad hard drive. The hard drive is pretty slow too. its rated at 7200 rpm but it seems like its goin at 5400 rpm. this system was a proprietary Hewlett-Packard, so i had no choice.