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[shaolinx]

My first overclock! Elite P6VXA mobo, Celeron 733/66. Thermaltake Volcano 7. I changed FSB to 100, got 1.1 mhz out of the Celeron stable so far! Thanks for all the info,excellent site!

Shaolinx
techaholic and complete overclocking newbie.

[RainMaQer]

Welcome to the Forums... and congrats on the oc:D

[AntiHeiss]

Welcome to the board. And congrats, you are one of us now, there is no going back....you're hooked. muhahahahahaha

[Yodums]

Good, keep your eyes on the temperatures and what are you using to full load the processor for "stable" loading windows and surfing isn't going to determine whether its stable :D

Thats if you didn't know.

Yodums

[shaolinx]

Well this comp is for burning cd's only, I just wanted to get the FSB to 100. So it is stable enuff for me, or is it? :)

Shaolinx

[Yodums]

Originally posted by shaolinx
Well this comp is for burning cd's only, I just wanted to get the FSB to 100. So it is stable enuff for me, or is it? :)

Shaolinx

Well its best to get the best stablity you can if something pop ups.

You can go more :D

Yodums

[pappypete]

Stop now.......It's the o/c disease, for which there
is no cure........(to late, your hooked) LOL!!

Welcome...enjoy

[shaolinx]

More?

Shaolinx

[Yodums]

Originally posted by shaolinx
More?

Shaolinx

What do you mean?

I think I hope you mean more as in getting more juice out of it..

Try 105fsb if you can hit that try 110.

I think 110 is all your going to go at the max which will get you to 1.2gig.

[jazztrumpet216]

Go ahead, try for more! You have good cooling on there. Plus, sooner or later, the OCing bug will get to you and you'll try for more anyway. I think that you might have a few more Mhz in there. BTW: 1100 is a really sweet OC, nice job!

[takiwa]

shoalinx,

What Yodums was saying is that you need to test the stability of your overclock by running some programs that can stress your cpu, and that demand accuracy at any level of power...like prime95. If you can run the torture test on prime for several hours w/o generating an error, then you can pretty safely assume your o/c is a success.
As far as using the comp for a burner only, you'd better fully test your o/c first, because if you are the least little bit unstable at that speed, you will start seeing small errors in your burned discs...which is not good. One way to tell is to burn a dummy on Nero (it is a waste of a disc, but oh well...), and then have it verify the write. If it can't verify it, then you are not stable. I wish you all the best, and congradulations on the o/c so far! :D

[shaolinx]

Hey if this is a repeat of what i tried to post then disreguard this one. Thanks for the heads up on the burning. I just need to nail down some programs for testing and temp sensing. I just burned a disc and it seems ok. Believe me I have the OC bug, its burning a hole in my somewhat baked brain. I will be attemping more speed after I put some quality RAM in. Thanks for all the help!

Shaolinx

[shaolinx]

Hope this works!

Shaolinx

[Yodums]

Go to Pinky's FTP Site and download some files:
http://www.aoafiles.com/

Download Prime95 under CPUStablity Tests I believe.
Download WCPUID to determine the speed and stuff.
Download Motherboard Monitor to monitor the temperatures.

Load up Prime95 for possibly as long as you can, if it doesn't find any errors your clean. If it does and it may crash your computer some sort then your overclock isn't 100% stable.

WCPUID shows your system specs, FSB, multiplier, etc.

Motherboard Monitor has to be configed before using you have to set the sensors.

Keep AN EYE AT THOSE TEMPERATURES.
They shouldn't exceed 45-50.
Your full load temperature should be the temperature while running that program at an hour.

All for now,
Yodums

[shaolinx]

I could not get Prime95 to run, so I used a different program. It stayed at about 36, for anhour and I was surfing the web and running help for MBM 5 while it was doing this. So I think it is safe to say it OK? THanks for help!

Shaolinx

PS. I put one stick of 256/133 SDRAM in her now.
:)

[Yodums]

Originally posted by shaolinx
I could not get Prime95 to run, so I used a different program. It stayed at about 36, for anhour and I was surfing the web and running help for MBM 5 while it was doing this. So I think it is safe to say it OK? THanks for help!

Shaolinx

PS. I put one stick of 256/133 SDRAM in her now.
:)

What program did you run then?

[shaolinx]

It was cpuburn4 at the website posted in one of the replies above. No good? I kept getting a httpdll not loaded error from prime95, and it wouldnt connect to server.

Shaolinx

[jazztrumpet216]

CPUburn's a good proggie for that stuff. Doesn't matter what it is, as long as it stresses the CPU. 36C looks pretty good to me. Nice OCin there!

[Yodums]

Just make sure you use the right application for the CPUBurn.

Well it does sound good. Keep the stress test on for aslong as you can straight...

Preferably 72 hours straight and not crash is stable then you can keep burning and go for more :)
Yodums

[theflyingrat]

Shao...I saw in your earlier post you have a PIII running on an AOpen AX34 ProII...I just ordered one of these boards for a spare machine. How do you like it so far? Anything you have problems with at all?

[shaolinx]

Well the board is actually been excellent, teh only issue I have seen with it is if you want to go beyond 512 ram it does not work with Radeon 64 DDR video card. And make sure you have the latest bios and 4in1 drivers. You can get the latest drivers from www.tomshardware.com. You'll have to get the bios from www.aopen.com other than that it has been a rockin' mobo.

Shaolinx

[theflyingrat]

Excellent. Thanks for the info! A GeForce2 GTS-32 will be used in this board, and no more than 256MB of memory anyway. Interesting that that happens, anyway. Have you found an explanation for this, or is it just one of those "that's just the way it is" sort of things?

[shaolinx]

IT has something to do with the chipset and the memory of the video card, there is no known bios fix for it. Its just a chip bug.

Shaolinx