Any body know how to overclock my p3 600eb?...help

[daddy-o]

hey, ive a p3 600eb running on a gigabyte ga-6wmm mb, the machine started life as a packard-bell (stop laughing), anyway the bios wont let me set the fsb speed and ive tried using softfsb but with no joy....i know this this cpu runs stable at 800, but if anybody knows of a way i could oc it, it would be well appreciated....
cheers

[LoudFan]

Won't happen on that board. Sorry.

[[OC]_SR20DE]

daddy-o (Apr 23, 2001 08:20 a.m.):

"anyway the bios wont let me set the fsb speed and ive tried using softfsb but with no joy....i know this this cpu runs stable at 800,.."

--->> woww.. really?? Can you run your chip at 177mhz FSB?? wow... you got the most powerful RAM and CPU I have ever seen.. you must have freakin super-ram and mobo or something.


cheers

[daddy-o]

woww.. really?? Can you run your chip at 177mhz FSB?? wow... you got the most powerful RAM and CPU I have ever seen.. you must have freakin super-ram and mobo or something.


Fool, go to the cpu database and select the 600eb....pple have got it running easily at 800+.....shove it up your hole

[[OC]_SR20DE]

I dont think that mobo will let you overclock very much. How far you do you plan to overclock?.. Unfortunately, I dont know anything about your mobo, so I can't help you on that part at all. Try "SoftFSB" software from tweakfiles.com. It might be able to let you OC.. My other recommendation is to try a new motherboard.
If you're interested about it, see how many slots you have on the back of your case. See if it has 6 slots or more on the back. If it does, then you can try looking for Abit motherboards or ASUS ones.. they'll help you overclock well.

[Phil]

I would say that with good ram you will get between 675mhz and 750mhz but you need some really good ram, especially if you want cas 2 which depending on your point of view is either really important, or just something that shows up in sandra

[marty]

Hey daddyo,

You can try CPUCool instead of SoftFSB. It works with some boards that SoftFSB won't.

Find the program at:
http://members.nbci.com/podien/

[daddy-o]

thanks for the ideas everyone.......about the new mb suggestion by ƒ~ƒ‹ƒN•²,ur right them abit and asus boards are v.nice for overclocking.... i was thinking of getting a new asus mb, and a 1 athlon, but i wanted to squeeze some more go out of this cpu first,......

cheers for the phil and marty, im just after dl'ing that cpucool gonna see now if i can get this thing running at 700 (c'mon ram dont let me down now)....

thanks again everyone

[DocClock aka MadClocker]

It is a very rare ram module that will do 170+mhz, and just because somebody has posted 800+ out of a 600eb, doesn't mean you can...and every cpu is different, even out of the same wafer.
It is nice to dream, but I think your expectations are wildly optomistic.

[daddy-o]

yeah i know its very unlikley to get the ram running at that speed, but i was just saying that the actual cpu can handle 800mhz while still keeping good stability, ....seeing as it is a .18 micron version of the p3

i know that it needs very high quality ram to reach anywhere near that speed, but the most i was even hoping to get it running at was 675, and thats still pushing it with a 150mhz fsb