I just got me a Cyrix III Samuel 600!!! Check out this overclock!

[Carmine_Paterno]

It was originally 600mhz 133fsb X 4.5 multiplier. It is multiplier unlocked, so i set the mulitplier to 5.5, and the fsb to 140, volts to 1.6 from 1.5. Runs completely stable. 770mhz, i can't believe it, i didn't think this chip would go anywhere. So far, i have set the mult. to 4.5 and fsb up to 155, and it ran completely stable, CAS3 of course, my cheap PNY PC133 CAS3 memory won't take more then 145CAS2. You like that, runs pretty fast, only problem, no Level 2 CACHE.

[wild_andy_c]

I got the C3 733 running at 940Mhz on a 170Mhz FSB!!!!!

[DocClock aka MadClocker]

Phunny, I was just reading about the "samuel II" core, and it is said to overclock well..too bad about the L2 cache though...maybe there needs to be a topic for VIA chips?..who knows, SOME chip maker will realise the potential sales of "overclockable" chips and cater to them, or at least leave the multiplier lock off, and leave headroom for suitable clocking...maybe VIA is the one?
I had a 686L 166+ and hated it...but cyrix has been bought by Via, and they are a different ball game...I'm keeping my fingers crossed, because if enough attention is given to overclock worthy chips, the big giants will have to sit up and take notice.
I think the giants still think of overclockers as unscrupulous deviants who want to make money at Intel's/AMD's expence, maybe that was true in the past, but with built in ID's each chip says what it is rated at..this point is no longer valid.
The sooner the chip giants realise that a lot of sales are generated by experiences of overclockers, they will embrace the efforts that we make. In fact, if AMD and Intel would paruse these forums, they might learn that we could actualy help isolate potential stability problems that can't be simulated in the labs ( real world stuff), and could help them to make a better product :-)
Peace,
Doc

[Carmine_Paterno]

Thanx for the reply, sadly, i bought the chip from compusa for 100 dollars :(, but i wanted something new to mess around with. Yea, how about making a Cyrix/VIA CPU section? The chips are great overclockers actually. About the L2 Cache thing, I have a solution. My CPU (Cyrix 600 4.5X133) came on a slotkey. With it came a disk, said to come with utilities to change the multiplier, fsb right in windows, example.....6, 100 4.5, 133 8, 66. Then i actually looked around the disk, and saw this file.....L2 Enable! I almost messed myself :). 1 Little problem though.....It says Samuel Chip not detected!!!???!!! Why not? I don't understand? Well just for an update, i have it at 1.75v 800 (6X133). The max voltage i am going to set through this chip is 2.0v. This weekend, i am buying a 1ghz AXIA Thunderbird, and a KK266 motherboard.

Game performance is mild with this chip, but, i just really wanted to see how far it would go! I want to thank all you guys for getting me sooo into this stuff at such an early age (15). Don't worry i actually have a life! LOL

[Endeavor]

i wasnt aware cyrix was still around?

[Carmine_Paterno]

It isn't called Cyrix anymore, it was bought by VIA.

[*spazzed*]

Carmine_Paterno (Jun 03, 2001 06:29 p.m.):
Game performance is mild with this chip, but, i just really wanted to see how far it would go! I want to thank all you guys for getting me sooo into this stuff at such an early age (15). Don't worry i actually have a life! LOL

I'm 15 too.....and if someone makes fun of you and says "you have no life", just wait a couple of years and see them (well some of them) struggling to pay rent, while you are enjoying your "no life" with everything you can possibly want ;D

So the via chip isn't that bad too fool around with?

[Carmine_Paterno]

I agree with you completely! The chip isn't that bad at all. Right now i have it at 800mhz....6X133 with 1.75v, rock stable. Quake 3 isn't too bad with my VooDoo3. Everything runs perfect settings all the way up.....So far, at 2.2v, i have been able to post up to 960. Only runs stable @ 855 @ 2.05v. I haven't burned it in yet....going to start today....Right now i am at school, and on the chip, i am using the defualt heatsink.

[Carmine_Paterno]

Nobody knows why the software on the disk isn't working, even at default speeds??? THANX

Update: 860 @ 2.1v...........800 @ 1.75v

[ebola]

spazzed86 (Jun 04, 2001 06:52 p.m.):
Carmine_Paterno (Jun 03, 2001 06:29 p.m.):
Game performance is mild with this chip, but, i just really wanted to see how far it would go! I want to thank all you guys for getting me sooo into this stuff at such an early age (15). Don't worry i actually have a life! LOL

I'm 15 too.....and if someone makes fun of you and says "you have no life", just wait a couple of years and see them (well some of them) struggling to pay rent, while you are enjoying your "no life" with everything you can possibly want ;D

So the via chip isn't that bad too fool around with?

i hope its a lot of years, since im 22 and i still have a year and a half before i get my masters of business administration degree. damn im poor.

[Carmine_Paterno]

Right now i am burning it in @ 800 (6X133) @ 2.1v for about 3 days, after that i hope (after more cooling) i want to hitt 900. That would be a sweet overclock, how bout making a CPU section for some of these? I think will write a email to the moderator. Today is the computer show, and i am gonna get either a duron/tbird, i will let you guys know!

[!-=sky=-!]

spazzed86 (Jun 04, 2001 06:52 p.m.):
Carmine_Paterno (Jun 03, 2001 06:29 p.m.):
Game performance is mild with this chip, but, i just really wanted to see how far it would go! I want to thank all you guys for getting me sooo into this stuff at such an early age (15). Don't worry i actually have a life! LOL

I'm 15 too.....and if someone makes fun of you and says "you have no life", just wait a couple of years and see them (well some of them) struggling to pay rent, while you are enjoying your "no life" with everything you can possibly want ;D

So the via chip isn't that bad too fool around with?

hi, 14 here
hehehe

[PA_dave]

I just picked up a C3 600 too. Unfortunately, my mobo doesn't want to work with it. Any suggestions on a good choice for a new mobo?

I've got a 370/Slot 1 adapter that has some OC options like 100/133 FSB, multiplier, and V (I think the range is like 1.3 - 2.05V). If the mobo chipset worked w/ my C3, I could use the slot adapter to OC -- right?

Anyhow, based on the price and OCability of the C3 600, I'd even consider a dual-processor board if there's one out there. Now I just need to buy another Peltier....

[Carmine_Paterno]

Sorry to tell you this, but the C3 doesn't support SMP. You can have 1 c3 in a dual motherboard, but not 2. UPDATE ON MINE....I killed it. It just died, i took it out of the slotket and one pin was gone! So i dunno the chip sucked anyway, but still every chip deserves all the love you have.

[GooGobbler]

I'm 15 also ;D

[Mr B]

Carmine_Paterno (Jun 20, 2001 07:15 p.m.):

UPDATE ON MINE....I killed it. It just died, i took it out of the slotket and one pin was gone! So i dunno the chip sucked anyway, but still every chip deserves all the love you have.

Man, you really put the "hard" in "hardware"......

Mr B

[Carmine_Paterno]

LoL, Mr. B. you must really hate me for killing 3 chips. First my P2 300 @ 375 (150fsbX 2.5) unlocked. Second my Celeron II 600 @ 1ghz 2.0v cB0 SL46U. Third my Cyrix Samuel 3 600 @ 860.

Geez, must not be lucky.

[Mr B]

Carmine_Paterno (Jun 22, 2001 05:39 p.m.):
LoL, Mr. B. you must really hate me for killing 3 chips. First my P2 300 @ 375 (150fsbX 2.5) unlocked. Second my Celeron II 600 @ 1ghz 2.0v cB0 SL46U. Third my Cyrix Samuel 3 600 @ 860.

Geez, must not be lucky.

Naw, I wouldn't say I hate you...just can't understand some of the high risk options you take, especially in the area of vcore settings.... You do like to really push the vcore up there. You're certainly not the first person to fry three chips, nor will be the last. *knocks on wood* I have yet to kill one, perhaps I'm lucky, or just not as daring. Perhaps I'm not as inclined to risk things as new processors can run a fair chunk of change, depending on what you're running. That C3 you lost wasn't too expensive...maybe getting all of the toasted chips out of your system now is a good thing, and when you do go for the T-Bird, the overclocking Gods will smile on you, and say, "Man, he's toasted three already, let's let him have one he can't fry...=)"

I guess I'm just more conservitive when it comes to my settings....

Mr B

[Pinky]

Mr B (Jun 22, 2001 08:59 p.m.):
You're certainly not the first person to fry three chips, nor will be the last. *knocks on wood* I have yet to kill one, perhaps I'm lucky, or just not as daring. Perhaps I'm not as inclined to risk things as new processors can run a fair chunk of change, depending on what you're running.

...I guess I'm just more conservitive when it comes to my settings....

Mr B

I haven't cooked one yet, either, so don't feel alone. Some people have to learn the hard way, but some of can learn from their mistakes...

[Carmine_Paterno]

I can definetly say that i have learned from my mistakes, but it is hard to understand, and learn when you have no idea what you did! I just took out the C3 600 to test my P3 450 @ 600, and when i was done, went to put the C3 back in, and nothing! NOTHING! The P2 300 @ 375, was my first overclocking chips, and i just had it laying around, without a static bag or anything, without the shell on it either. Now the Celeron II 600 @ 1ghz was completely my fault. I wanted to get higher, almost as high as you have Mr. B, and got greedy, ripped off my slug on my slotket, tryed to superglue it back on, and screwed up the chip. Now, that really hurt me. I will take soooo much care of my Celeron II 800 i asure you.

[Keen]

Umm, can we see some benchmarks??

[Carmine_Paterno]

Umm, what would you like to see benchmarks of? The only thing i have left is my PIII 450 @ 600 (right now running @ 608 2.3v 3.6VIO)

[Keen]

I'd like to see how the Cyrix 3's perform in games.

[Carmine_Paterno]

The Cyrix 3 died about a week ago. I can tell you that it wasn't to bad of a performer. Quake 3 really bogged the poo out of it @ 800 (133X6). No L2 cache is probably the problem, or it could just be the architecture of the chip. I don't recommend buying one. Get a Celeron/Duron if you are a little cheap.

If money is not a problem, get a Thunderbird/P3/P4. GOOD LUCK

[Keen]

I hope to buy myself a Duron soon. It'll be an upgrade from my current P3 500@650.

[Zuck Gou :)]

Hey Carmine,

What was the point of ripping the slug off? Too get to the core?
On the celeron

[Carmine_Paterno]

By slug i was refering to the peice of plastic that holds the heatsink onto the socket. You know the part that the clip grabs onto. That little plastic piece came off. I tryed superglueing it back on. It worked, but i took out the chip. Plastic was stuck on it, and i tryed to get it out, and ripped out a pin.

[Zuck Gou :)]

Ahh alritey, thx

[bdf24]

I havent killed any cpu's but I did kill my BE6-II. But if my wife asks it was'nt my fault! It was just it's time to die! LOL!!!