Newbie wannabe but dontknowhowtobe

[RebelYell]

Hi all.

First up, what a great site, so much reading material:)

Anyway, I was hoping somebody here would be able to give me a little bit of advise. I have read as much as I can on this site and found it very very informative and helpful but just need some pointers for my particular probs.

I'm running a PIII 550 on a Soyo SY6BA+ mobo. I've succesfully managed to have it running at 566Mhz (which is a bit pointless). The CPU temperature seems to be a steady 47Deg C. Intel quotethat these are safe up to 80Deg C. The next frequency available it seems, is 616Mhz. I set this in the BIOS settings as follows:

CPU host/PCI clock: 103/34Mhz
CPU Ratio: X5.5 = 566Mhz (apparently unchangeable)
AGP clock: Auto

On reboot, it passes POST, but before going into windows, gives:

'Windows protection error - you must reboot' (or something along those lines)

At which point, on reboot, goes straight to the safe-mode options.

If I try setting this using SoftFSB in windows, the system hangs and need turning off and back on again. As I say, no probs with 566Mhz.

I'm just wondering, first of all, why this is and what I can do about it, and, is 616Mhz a reasonably safe figure to go for if this windows problem can be overcome.

Sorry to go on a bit. Would be great if someone could help:)

[The Doors]

Hi RebelYell, wellcome to the Forum,
your prob seems to be the heat, 47 degree C are too higher to start to OverClock your chip, generally it can go with a Fsb of 133Mhz. This temp is referred @full load (100% load) or @idle?

So the way to go are a new Cooler, I suggest you a GlobalWin vos32 or an Alpha P3125 and a thin layer of thermal paste, at this point you can adjust the Fsb from 100Mhz to 133Mhz, and if not stable, rise a little the voltage of the chip, never over the 15% than the rated voltage.
Doing so you can gain from your chip about 733Mhz (5.5 x 133Mhz).

I hope it helps you ;)

[GuNRocK]

welcome to the forums......man thats crazy 733 from a 550....no way its goign to happen the L2 cache isnt ONDIE and the Katmai core is old...inst able to do more then 600mhz by intel..so i wouldnt recomend going past 650mhz if u can get it that high..its prity much surcide......with intels multiplier lock u can chose a lower multiplier...u might want to lower it to 4.5 then bump up the bus to 133
but the most logical solution is 5.5x112fsb or 113fsb 114fsb 115fsb...i wouldnt go past 115mhzbus....thats 633Mhz

[RebelYell]

Cheers people. I'm glad I asked as I thought the temperature might be a problem.

I shopped around today and bought a blower for the back and a sucker for the front. I can't get hold of CPU heatsinks and fans locally though:(

Does anyone know of any UK suppliers for decent slot1 CPU coolers? I've tried the usual Dabs.com and stuff but can't find anything.

I would be highly appreciative if anyone could point me in the right direction.

Thanks all:)

[The Doors]

Take a look to this link http://www.overclockers.co.uk/
I hope it helps you ;)

[cyberey66]

I believe...The alpha p3125 has two slots to cool the L2 cache and it is one of the most powerfull slot-1 coolers. If you come across one I would definatly pick it up. 5.5 x 133 could possibly be possible.

[RebelYell]

Thanks for the advise everyone, you've all been a great help:) As we speak I have a GlobalWin VOS32+ winging its way toward me, just hope I can squeeze the bugger in:D Couldn't get hold of an Alpha P3125 - those things are like rocking horse sh*t!:D

Thanks again:)