PIII 1Ghz @ 1050Mhz...

[-Exi|e-]

I changed my FSB from 133 to 140Mhz and now my cpu runs at 1050Mhz. My cpu seems to run at same temperature as before and all is fine, i did some benchmarks and got no problems at all... What i wanna know is, now that my PCI is clocked at 37.5Mhz, will it affect my hardware at all? My AGP would be running a bit higher too.... will that affect anything....

[William]

it can. It shouldn't affect it too much though. Most quality devices can function on a higher pci bus, it depends.

[-Exi|e-]

I had to chg my FSB because for some reason i cant chg my multiplier with the switch on my gigabyte motherboard, now its at 7.5, i tried putting it at 8 but no results... Anyone know if its the motherboard or the cpu that limits that?

PIII 1000Mhz@1050Mhz
Gigabyte GA 6VXC7-4X

[William]

All Intel CPUs have their multiplier factory locked. There is no way to "unlock" the cpu like an AMD cpu. So you are stuck with fiddling with the FSB. This is how people overclock an Intel CPU. I run fine on a 41.5 pci bus(83 mhz with 1/2 divider).

[Carmine_Paterno]

37.5fsb isn't bad at all. You should be ok up to 160 fsb (if your chip can handle it) where shortly after that (163) you might have some hard drive corruption.

[Pinky]

Check my sig -- I'm running my cards at 40mhz and no problems.

[-Exi|e-]

Well i gotta say, thx alot guys for the advice!!! Actually it wasnt at 37.5Mhz it was 35Mhz but now i know i can go at 150Mhz FSB without any problems...

[outhouse]

You bet you can :) and theres room for more if your lucky enough to have cards that will take the higher FSB speeds. I'm running at 171FSB but my CPU is tempermental about temps so I'll have to wait for winter then i know it will take 172 as ive had it there 2 days without a crash but for me all it takes is one crash and i take her down for a while hoping it will burn itself in to its new speed in the future.