New to OC'ing Athlons, what's the best testing method?

[Krakn3Dfx]

Well, I've got my TBird 1GHz/266 unlocked, installed on my IWill KK266 board w/ a FOP38 (b*tch to install, thought for sure I was going to crush the core on my CPU) using Artic Silver II, 512MB of Crucial PC133 CAS2 RAM, and it's sitting at about 28C idle, which is nice. I've OC'd quite a few PII and PIII chips, but they were multiplier locked, so I only had the FSB to play with. On this TBird I've got the mult and the FSB, and I know a higher FSB is better than a high multiplier. Where should I start testing on this? I ran at 7x140 for awhile last night with no problems, pushed it up to 145MHz and it booted into Windows and everything seems okay, but haven't done any major heat testing. At the default speed, this baby kicks butt over the P4 1.5GHz listed in Sandra! Anyway, any ideas, comments suggestions? I'm hoping to squeeze at least 1.2GHz out of it, but we'll see how things go. Running at about 1088 right now.

[Murphy]

Krakn3Dfx (Mar 16, 2001 07:24 a.m.):
Well, I've got my TBird 1GHz/266 unlocked, installed on my IWill KK266 board w/ a FOP38 (b*tch to install, thought for sure I was going to crush the core on my CPU) using Artic Silver II, 512MB of Crucial PC133 CAS2 RAM, and it's sitting at about 28C idle, which is nice. I've OC'd quite a few PII and PIII chips, but they were multiplier locked, so I only had the FSB to play with. On this TBird I've got the mult and the FSB, and I know a higher FSB is better than a high multiplier. Where should I start testing on this? I ran at 7x140 for awhile last night with no problems, pushed it up to 145MHz and it booted into Windows and everything seems okay, but haven't done any major heat testing. At the default speed, this baby kicks butt over the P4 1.5GHz listed in Sandra! Anyway, any ideas, comments suggestions? I'm hoping to squeeze at least 1.2GHz out of it, but we'll see how things go. Running at about 1088 right now.


Your setup rocks. My suggestion: Keep on pushing! From what I know it's better first to oc multiplyer and after you reached the multiplyer max, go for the FSB max, or FSB max at 1 multiplyer rating below the max. In most of the cases this are the best options.
Succes 8)