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bojames
02-23-01, 01:29 PM
I just bought a T-bird 850 (blue) and am trying to overclock it.
I bought some conductive ink and uses a tooth pick to spread it between the gaps. After letting it dry for an hour I put the cpu in and tryed to "turn it up". I can change the multiplier to 7, 7.5,8,8.5 but if I turn it to 9 it just sets its self back to 7 and 9.5 is 7.5. I looked at the cpu and the bridges are definatly closed, so does this mean it wont overclock? did I screw up joining the bridges? I can change the bus speed but anything past 112 seems unstable. I Had it running at 969 and played counter strike for an hour no problem but when I came out and started surfing the web it locked up. I'm not sure if thats a Internet explorer problem or if it was because of the cpu or the bus since it was out of spec at 114. I could get it to boot into windows at 1003 but it locked up right away again i think it was the bus. If I try to enable the 133/33 option the computer wont boot at all even if I turn the multiplier to 7.5.

My system, T-bird (blue) 850, 128 megs toshiba ram, 128 no name both pc 133, Voodoo 5 5500, Soundblaster Live, Mactronics ethernet card, Volcano II HSF, Abit K7Ta mb.
The cpu temp runs at about 43 when at full load, 29 when idle

Any help be great thanks

Hoot
02-23-01, 07:49 PM
I'd say rework those L1 bridges. Temp looks good for O/C. Good Luck

Hoot

Random Horowitz
02-23-01, 10:24 PM
I used a regular number 2 pencil to close the bridges on my 800 T-bird.. Right now I'm running at 6.5X143fsb =910 with the voltage lowered to 1.725 totally stable I get about 102 F under full load...

Monza
02-23-01, 10:35 PM
use an hb pencil, thats an easy guarantee of working bra. 1.85v and i'm going 1g from 800mhz on my a7v133, it'll go the same 4 u dude. Vantec her though.

good luck,
monza

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