Overclocking Problem with K6 III 350

[RevHorton]

My roomate was recently trying out overclocking his AMD K6 III 350 and it booted fine at 400mhz, and ran for about a minute. We reset it and tried for 450, figuring the worse it could do was errors and then we would put it back down, but at 450, nothing is output to the monitor and there is random beeping. Is this the symptoms of a fried motherboard or ??? We would go back in and change it to a lower speed if we could... any pros have feedback??

[bobt17]

clear your cmos and it should be fine u just found ur limit

[bobt17]

btw WELCOME TO THE FORUMS!!!! :)

[PhilKMFDM]

Hi I'm said roommate in the post that this is a reply to. On the computer that decided to not work then suddenly work. After I changed to clock speed to 450 (4.5 x 100) it initially didn't work even after a few tries. About 30 - 45 minutes later I decided to plug it back in (anything besides study for finals) and it started to boot up with the bios saying it was booting at 450mhz. I decided this was too risky and got back to the bios and clocked it back down to 350 and everything ran fine, after some time i went back to the bios and ran the clock at 400mhz again (4.0 x 100). This is what I'm currently on. I have a couple questions. Why does a program that checks the CPU clock tell me that I'm running at 380 clock speed and what does voltage to pertaining to the clock speed?

[bobt17]

i'm not sure why a cpu speed checking prog would say 380 instead of 400. but when u up your clock speed sometimes if u up the vcore voltage it will make higher clock speeds stable

[PhilKMFDM]

Thanks for the input bob, I really appreciate it. The programs that gave those results are Sysid and Mindbeat MPower. My current voltage is 2.4v the original settings running at 350mhz was 2.3v do you think that upping the voltage will result in any heat problems for my processer?

[bobt17]

depends on how good your cooler is upping the vcore will make ur cpu hotter

[PhilKMFDM]

thats what i figured, higher voltage anything means higher temperatures, thanks for all your help, i think for now i'll just leave my cpu case off to be on the safe side in terms of cooling.

[Bimmer318i]

about that 380 thing...Check by using WCPUID. That will tell you if you are actually running a 100 mhz bus or if it's running @ 95 mhz...
have fun...was tryin to get my 333 runnin @ 450, but that seems like it's not gonna happen, so 400 for me it is..

[-EternitY-]

You need to buy your self a New heatsink...

Then you could take it to a 500 =D