a newbie thinks this is too good, Is it?

[flaming gerbil]

P3 800E so far at 960. I'm using an asus bx 440. I've been checking out the site now for about a month that's all I know about over clocking. Decided yesterday to drink some beer and go for it. It runs under pressure (audio time stretching software) between 107F to 110F at 1.65v. (120 FSB). At 800mhz it averages between 105F and 107F while rendering the time stretch. I'm using the motherboard monitoring software this site recommends. NO crashes and completely stable at 960. ( I've also checked it over the last 6 hours with office and 3d game applications) Is this right? Am I lucky? I'm a little chicken to go further.
I can't increase the multiplier past 8x and the fsb can only be increased in 5mhz increments so next stop is 1ghz. I know the speeds are correct because at 800 the time stretch takes 22 minutes to render and at 960 it takes 16 minutes. Should I try or am I doing something wrong? Thanks for the site and helping a brand spanking newbie!

[Tim-]

Go for it- you won't hurt anything. Just keep an eye on temperature- if it gets abnormally hot then it is an issue- otherwise no big deal. You may need a little higher Vcore, and then you will need to watch the temps VERY closely but a GHz is probably possible from where your are now. It would benefit by increased cooling!

[bb]

Hi, I'd like to know what video card you have. My PIII 800 was also stable at 960, although I had to use 1.8vcore to get there.

My video card began to go flakey (voodoo 3 3000)
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[flaming gerbil]

I am also using a voodoo 3 3000. It gets really hot, too hot to hold my finger on for too long. I tried 1ghz with no success. I suspect the video card. at 1.65 and 1 ghz windows would hang, at 1.70 (the only next available voltage setting) it went straight into safe mode and said I had display problems. I set it to boot in 16 color mode then it went straight into safe mode again and MBM hung. I had to unistall MBM to get it to back into windows. Also I have one of those exhaust fans that installs in a pci slot. It's intake sits about 1/2 inch below the heatsinks on the video card and it exhausts directly out of the pci opening. Perhaps this is why it works at 1.65? My monitor used to suddenly go blank (at the normal 800mhz), but once I installed this fan I never had a problem again. any ideas? It still runs like a charm at 960.

[Tachyon]

Try increasing the voltage until you get a stable startup. You should be safe up to 1.85v.

[dimmreaper]

Tachyon (Jan 11, 2001 07:08 a.m.):
Try increasing the voltage until you get a stable startup. You should be safe up to 1.85v.It will not do any good with the 440BX chipset. His AGP bus is screaming along. I think It's the V3 holding him back.