overclocking my p3

[Citricblood]

hi guys, this is my first time I am writing in this forum, amazed by the vast topics covered regarding overclocking and not to mention the great instructions you guys provide! brilliant.
I have a p3@450, intell 440 bx-2, 128 ram, 8 gb hd dsk, riva tnt2 32mb.
now i am practically new to overclocking(i only o/c my p1 from 200 to 266 that was just jumpers) but I want to get more. the problem is that due to the place I live in I can;t find any cooling kits not the simplest ones, nobody even knows about them so could you give me a guide (some website or anything) where I can find details to create a cooling system using plain stuff? I just want to get it to 550, thanks alot!

[outhouse]

Citricblood (Jun 20, 2001 11:44 p.m.):
hi guys, this is my first time I am writing in this forum, amazed by the vast topics covered regarding overclocking and not to mention the great instructions you guys provide! brilliant.
I have a p3@450, intell 440 bx-2, 128 ram, 8 gb hd dsk, riva tnt2 32mb.
now i am practically new to overclocking(i only o/c my p1 from 200 to 266 that was just jumpers) but I want to get more. the problem is that due to the place I live in I can;t find any cooling kits not the simplest ones, nobody even knows about them so could you give me a guide (some website or anything) where I can find details to create a cooling system using plain stuff? I just want to get it to 550, thanks alot!

if your only going to 550 then you may get away with doing a few mods that are not exspencive and you can get most of it at radioshack if ones avalible. getting thermal compound on your CPU instead of the pink sticky stuff thats on there will help allot as well as lapping the HSF [heatsinkfan] you could make a duct out of cardboard that goes from your HSF to your side case cover, this will draw cooler air in straight to your HSF. you will have to cut a hole in your side case cover though. Also i would put 2 case fans in one blowing air in and one blowing air out. there are links on the front page to places with cooling goods if you want to get a good HSF

[batboy]

Yes, just applying a good thermal paste between the heatsink and CPU will help wonders, plus adding a couple case fans as Outhouse mentions. But, you'll need to examine and research your motherboard to see if you can manually change the bus speed (FSB) either in the BIOS or by using jumpers. When you said your motherboard is an Intel BX, that's probably the chipset and not the actual brand. If it is truly an Intel brand motherboard, you might have trouble overclocking it, because Intel frowns on overclocking and did not make overclocking friendly motherboards.