Help plz...

[Thirus]

Hello everyone,
I am fairly new to overclocking and would like to try it. I know alot about comps except tweaking stuff. I have enuf cooling to overclock (and one extra fan and heatsink ready to use if needed) but I still dont fully understand...well i do im just not sure if i want to on my brand new pIII 1.0ghz. (I always need more, more, more!) My mainboard is a Aazza DVAX2+. I have 256MB sdram pc-133. This is not a brand name comp btw, i put it togther. If somone could give me a east step by step guide it would be great. You know walk me through it. If there is no way to overclock it then just some ways to boost my systems performance.

Btw...its a socket chip.
Btw2...my voodoo5 is alrdy overclocked and i read that with PIII u can only up the FSB. If i do this should i unoverclock my v5?

still looking for help...

[Pinky]

Welcome.

Start by reading the homepage, there are several tutorials on overclocking, as well as other pages on the internet (try doing an overclocking search on Yahoo).

You will need to identify whether your motherboard allows you to alter the voltage to the cpu, and if you can change the bus speed and other options.

Cooling is the key. Pushing the CPU higher by itself is not going to cause harm, if done in small increments and if you keep the cpu temperatures well monitored.

Do some homework first. Don't be afraid to ask any questions, but just be prepared to answer specific questions we may have -- we can only help you based on the information you provide.

[e_storm]

First question being, what is the cooling you spoke of? What chip cooler and what have you got for case cooling? Do you have a temp monitoring program? If not, MBM is very good (from tweakfiles.com). Temp monitoring is essential to OCing. :)

[Pinky]

e_storm (Jun 15, 2001 01:58 p.m.):
First question being, what is the cooling you spoke of? What chip cooler and what have you got for case cooling? Do you have a temp monitoring program? If not, MBM is very good (from tweakfiles.com). Temp monitoring is essential to OCing. :)

Ditto that, crucial and MBM is the best, only one I use

[Thirus]

Hi thanks for responding! Its a PC power cooler (?) I just bough a med-large sized fan and heat sink. Although i am going out tomarrow to get one more case cooling fan, i can a diff cpu fan if needed. If another fan+heatsink is needed for the cpu (although it is a fairly small heatsink the fan is large) i have an extra one to stick on. (Can i stick a heat sink on the side of a heat sink and have to fans and heatsinks, dose that even work=) My mother board came with a MBM and it dosent work=( Yes i can adjust anything on it...to say the least its almost compatiable with anything. I have had everything from a PII 233, amd 500 and now a PIII 1000.

[Agentmikie]

Pinky (Jun 15, 2001 02:27 p.m.):
e_storm (Jun 15, 2001 01:58 p.m.):
First question being, what is the cooling you spoke of? What chip cooler and what have you got for case cooling? Do you have a temp monitoring program? If not, MBM is very good (from tweakfiles.com). Temp monitoring is essential to OCing. :)

Ditto that, crucial and MBM is the best, only one I use

It´s all good....and in addition http://www.macpower.com.tw/digitaldoc5.htm

[outhouse]

I'd be glad to walk you through this but before we begin you really need to have a way to check temps i would not overclock at all until you know exactly what temps your running at. there are two different places that say the p3 1g will max out at 60C and the other says 70C these CPU's cannot take the heat like other CPU's so we dont want to fry your chip. if you can get your FSB over 150 and you can give your CPU 1.9 or more there is a good chance you will get to 1200 but first there is allot of work to do in the cooling department which most of is not exspensive and for me its fun working on this stuff. get a way to check temps and we'll get that baby to sing!

[outhouse]

Pinky (Jun 15, 2001 01:50 p.m.):
Welcome.

Start by reading the homepage, there are several tutorials on overclocking, as well as other pages on the internet (try doing an overclocking search on Yahoo).

You will need to identify whether your motherboard allows you to alter the voltage to the cpu, and if you can change the bus speed and other options.

Cooling is the key. Pushing the CPU higher by itself is not going to cause harm, if done in small increments and if you keep the cpu temperatures well monitored.

Do some homework first. Don't be afraid to ask any questions, but just be prepared to answer specific questions we may have -- we can only help you based on the information you provide.

Pinky your advise is rite on! :) but you dont need to send him somewhere else We are the best when it come to overclockin :) accept no substitutes :)

[Pinky]

outhouse (Jun 15, 2001 09:47 p.m.):
Pinky your advise is rite on! :) but you dont need to send him somewhere else We are the best when it come to overclockin :) accept no substitutes :)

Hey, I won't disagree there, but I didn't learn everything I know about OCing form this site, my first experience was on Tom's Hardware (http://www6.tomshardware.com/guides/overclocking/), which I found through Yahoo. Only sharing my experience here, and besides, I pointed him OCing.com first!!

BTW--Let us know how you do tomorrow, someone will be online to give you a hand if you run into any snags...

Also. Don't OC unless you can monitor those temps!.. try one of these other programs and see if they can get the sensors to detect/work, otherwise forget it until you can...