what is holding me back from 1 gig

[Door Knob]

i have an 800eb. i want to overclock it to 1 gig, so 166 fsb. i freeze after a little bit under load. even with voltage uped to 1.9. is this the creative gts 32ddr or procesor do you think.

[Mr B]

166 FSB is a bit much...possible, but I don't know.

My 600E is basically the same deal as yours 600E/100FSB = 800EB/133.

I hit the wall at 159 FSB/954 MHz. Are you getting anything between 150 and 166 stable?

You might just have run out of chip, there. I'd love to have that 7MHz of FSB for 166...that would be 996 MHz..close enough to the gig for me. I just don't think the buggers got it in it.

BTW...I'm at 1.95v with mine.

Judging by the spec list in your sig, you didn't skimp on the hsf...what are you running, though?

Mr B

[Phil]

Normally I would suggest the harddrive but the ibm's are quite good with high fsb's, next up I would suggest the memory settings are too high, drop it down to 3-3-3 and also any other settings which can be turned down for memory, then I would suggest the sound blaster, try removing it and see if this remedies it. I would think the geforce would be ok but try reducing the agp aperture to 4mb so that agp transfers are disabled.

[Tim-]

At FSB's that high it could be anything- many motherboards are not stable in that neighborhood- they REALLY weren't designed for those speeds even if they offer them. All cards are suspect as well, along with the power supply and RAM. Any induced noise from the AC power, or nearby transmitters- virtually anything can upset the system when pushing hard. You may also be crossing the line in cooling.

Have you put a heat sink on the clock chip and chipset IC's? That does help on some MBs at extreme FSB.

[!-=sky=-!]

how can your guys get a 800eb to even overclock?

i can't get mine to go anywhere higher than 864.....
are there any special tricks?
below are my specs

800eb slot 1
asus p3v4x mobo
128 mb pc133 toshiba ram
creative infra 52x cd rom
hp 8/4/32 burner
sound blaste live value sound card
56k modem
quantum fireball lm 30gb hard drive

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Tim- (Mar 23, 2001 06:25 p.m.):
At FSB's that high it could be anything- many motherboards are not stable in that neighborhood- they REALLY weren't designed for those speeds even if they offer them. All cards are suspect as well, along with the power supply and RAM. Any induced noise from the AC power, or nearby transmitters- virtually anything can upset the system when pushing hard. You may also be crossing the line in cooling.

Have you put a heat sink on the clock chip and chipset IC's? That does help on some MBs at extreme FSB.


I agree with Tim there 100%. He's stressing every components at that FSB level. His CPU's been n still doing hell of job at that FSB. also, I believe your mobo does not have 1/2 AGP divider ratio setting instead, it's upto 2/3 i think.. at 2/3 setting, that's like brutally killing your Video card chip and will not survive much long. Basically, you won't be able to run anything(both gaming and office apps) steadily unless you get optimal, i.e. nitrous cooling your whole system and what Tim has said. Actually Tim has covered everything here.. he's right.