New at this. Need help!! AMD T-bird 900, want to over clock

[McPlot]

I have an ECS K7vza motherboad and a 900mhz AMD Athlon Thunderbird chip. I want over clock, maybe to 1ghz? How do I do this?

[Tachyon]

McPlot (Apr 03, 2001 12:15 p.m.):
I have an ECS K7vza motherboad and a 900mhz AMD Athlon Thunderbird chip. I want over clock, maybe to 1ghz? How do I do this?

Hi McPlot,

Welcome to Overclockers. I'm not familiar with your particular board, but you should read the beginners guides on the front page first.

[McPlot]

I have already. Very little actual help. Just warnings.

[Thelemac]

I would also suggest reading through the tips and tricks areas, and the reviews. Reading the beginner guides should at least get you started with some fsb OCing.

[McPlot]

Thanks for the suggestions. I sort of figured it out. There is actually a setting in my bios that will allow me to over clock to 1.008ghz. I am checking settings and such now. I have not been able to get the 1.008 or 1.0ghz to boot. I am slowly boosting it up. I am at 954mhz now. (original 900 mhz.)

[AZZKICKER]

i dont think that bpoard supports multiplyer adjutments so overclocking is going to be VERY limited !!!!!!!!!

get you a good board such as a Abit, ASUS, or I Will that support multiplyer adjut and also are VERY stable boards

i run a Abit KT7A-RAID and love mine ( T-Bird 950 @ 1200mhz @ 133 fsb and its just cruzing) (can do 1357 but its HOT)

[McPlot]

Need butter cooling, LOL. Set my mother board to shutdown if it gets to hot. I can run at 984mhz. ( I still want to get to 1ghz). But it gets too hot fast.
I am going to buy better cooling now.
As to last post. I can get this board to 1.2mhz if I switch jumpers.

[AZZKICKER]

ok cool then i guess it does

thats good

cooling is a big part of OCing these AMD chips

they run real hot so you need the best cooling you can afford

i run a FOP38 and love it......you can get one for 25 to 30 bucks on the net