Success Story for the Katmai & Thanks

Re: Seeking Expertise on the PIII 500 (Katmai)

First of all I really want to thank MR. B, f~f { f N.2 (Milkpowder) & THE DOORS & others who helped me with this.

I thought my PIII 500 Katmai was hopeless until I saw the LIGHT! No one talks about Epox mobo's, so I thought I was hopeless there as well. With expertise advise, here's what I accomplished:

Purchased:
1. P3125 Alpha Heat Sink (What a Monster!)
2. Arctic Silver II thermal compound (Great Stuff!)
3. 2 60mm fans
4. 2 80mm fans
5. Full Tower Case (Found one new for $15.00 ! ! !)

I can now achieve speeds up to 675 mhz with no problemo! I know I could go higher, but my Epox is maxed.

PIII 500 Katmai @ 675mhz
Epox P2-133A
PC-100 SDRAM (128 mb)

Ahhh, another overclocking success story. Congrats on the overclock!!

Mr B

cdadare, Im glad you succeeded in good overclock out of your CPU. That's great. I'm sure you'll like that heat sink very much! :* have fun overclocking!

GREAT! Cdadare,
many compliments for your OC@675, really good! ;-)

Wow 675mhz out of a katmai! that is amazing, don't waste new money on a new board to try and get more though as you may be unpleasantly surprised, I've not heard of such on overclock with less than a peltier what voltage is that with?
I am surprised to see a katmai getting into the realms of a coppermine though.

Very Nice! Only if my P3 450 @ 608 could just get to 650. I needed 2.3v and 3.6vio to get stable @ 608. I hate the stupid L2 cache, makes me need this really high VIO. I am burning it in @ 600mhz 2.3v 3.9VIO. Do you know anyway to get more voltage out of it? I was thinking to do some vid pinning, but i haven't a clue what to do. 135fsb is smoking fast, can't wait for my Celeron II 800! Nice overclock. I bow down in jealousy.

Phil (Jun 25, 2001 03:09 a.m.):
Wow 675mhz out of a katmai! that is amazing, don't waste new money on a new board to try and get more though as you may be unpleasantly surprised, I've not heard of such on overclock with less than a peltier what voltage is that with?
I am surprised to see a katmai getting into the realms of a coppermine though.

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I was somewhat upset when I found out that I couldn't manually set my voltage, but when I started to overclock, I noticed in the bios that my mobo did it for me. At 675mhz my voltage is 2.03

cdadare (Jun 26, 2001 01:51 p.m.):
I was somewhat upset when I found out that I couldn't manually set my voltage, but when I started to overclock, I noticed in the bios that my mobo did it for me. At 675mhz my voltage is 2.03

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Wait a minute, you're running at 675 MHz at 2.03 V?!?! That's default voltage! (OK, it's not technically default, but the difference between 2.00 and 2.03 should be expected)

Keen (Jun 26, 2001 02:37 p.m.):

cdadare (Jun 26, 2001 01:51 p.m.):
I was somewhat upset when I found out that I couldn't manually set my voltage, but when I started to overclock, I noticed in the bios that my mobo did it for me. At 675mhz my voltage is 2.03

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Wait a minute, you're running at 675 MHz at 2.03 V?!?! That's default voltage! (OK, it's not technically default, but the difference between 2.00 and 2.03 should be expected)

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That's what my bios reads, could it be wrong?