Door Knob
03-13-01, 09:24 PM
I bought this chip before I knew much about overclcocking. And after spending a while on this forum I learned that this really isn't a good chip for overclocking. Up till now the highest I have had my buss was 150. So today I decided to see what I could get from this thing. I tried it at 155, no problems at all, nothing had to be changed (ram @155 2-2-2 & 1.7 voltage). Next I tried 160 with out touching the ram settings or voltage. Windows up and after 5 minuets of unreal I am assured it will be stable (I don't want to do more till I get a better heatsink). My bios only has one more setting higher for bus speed, 166! Now its time for the ghz. Bios screen is up windows 2000 starts loading and I get my first error screen. Micron pc133 ram @ 166 2-2-2 (who was I kidding). So ram goes to 3-3-3 (i can run it at 133 which is an option I plan on trying, maybe that will run 2-2-2. I'll try that in a bit. This time i get a little father before the error message. OK I say, I'll up the voltage to 1.75. I get a little father before an error message. Is 1ghz impossible with this chip I wonder. Well I put the voltage to 1.8 and that seems to do it as Windows loads all the way up. My temp for my motherboard went up 2C around with the uped voltage but my cpu temps didn't raise much from the 900 mhz overclock that I usually run. With some good cooling and a little tweaking I hope to be running this thing at 1ghz on a regular basis. I just figured I'd share my experience with you guys because I don't see much on the EB chips on here.