Overclocking My PIII 550

[Mase357]

Can anyone give me good advice on what I should overclock my PIII 550 to. SYS specs are as flows 720 meg ram, WD 80g ata 100 HD, 27g Maxtor HD, 20x16x40 cdrw Yamaha, Matrox 32 dual head video card, SB live sound

[Monaco]

Hey, welcome to the forum.

I only had one, but my P3 550 did 733 with no problems. I just swtiched the jumper to change it from 100mhz front side bus, to 133mhz FSB. That was it, no voltage boost or anything, not even a hefty cooler- just the stock Intel fan.

Only had it for 3 months, so not much tweaking on it beside that. Really, it depends on how good your chip is and what kind of motherboard you have.

[Mase357]

I have a Gigabyte 6XBE board

[Monaco]

According to the Gigabyte website, your board is a BX chipset board. That's good- those are pretty fast, even faster when Oc'ed.

The bad thing is, it is only specced to run a 100mhz FSB- 133mhz is not guaranteed to work, and if your other components are not top of the line, 133 is unlikely. PCI bus will be WAY out of spec.

You can however use jumpers on the board to set a 112 or 124 mhz FSB, those have a very good chance of success- that board has no voltage adjust so don't worry about that.

Look at this link (http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/products/products.htm), check under the Slot-1 section. That's where I found it.

[TASOS]

Well,i have an 550 in fcpga @808 fsb=147 v=1,70 and its completely stable using a fop32 heatsink 39C in full load.

My first step though,was @733, by just setting fsb to 133 and nothing else.It worked perfect.

I hope i helped......
Make your move,and see what you can get.

Tasos