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Greetings Intel bunch!
I just had a funny and joyfull experience OCing my GFs Celeron 366 and just out of fun, I decided to post my results here.
The heart...
Preparation - do you see the AXP Barton box cooler on? Heh, it fits just great! I was worried a bit how the socket card will handle the extra weight but then I realised that it sits on on of the DIM slots nicely. I took off small alluminium heatsink and its 50mm stock fan and mounted on a very quiet low RPM 80 mm fan that was only bolted on one side (since it was to big). So, a little inovation was neccessary:
Weee...perfect so far!
Soon I realised, that the NB under this giant cooler will have warm airflow over itself, so I decided to mount on a small ALU heatsink that came on my Epox board as a default. Again (almost unbeleviable), it fitted so nicely that the CPU heatsink above leaned on totaly horizontaly. Now, the problem of warm air was still here. I decided to "reverse mount" the stock CPU fan above, on the big heatsink...like this:
Again, the bolts only came on one side. And since this one was quite a screamer (I opened and cleaned it but no good) I had to put two rubbers in between. Here's how it came out:
Ok! Off to the joy of OCing! I discovered very soon, that my multis are locked at 5,5. After some reading, I found out no one so far was able to unlock them. So what now? Well, raising the FSB seemed like a great idea but I was affraid to do it. Namely, the stock 66 FSB makes the PCI use 33 and AGP 66 which is normal. I only had the chance to raise the FSB to somewhere around 70 or 85. That would probably make PCI and AGP work at funny speeds and I just didnt want that. Then I took a closer look at the slot-card and read through the manual of a simmilar board. There were two jumpers, one on the card and the other one on the board - both with the sign TURBO66 on. Since it was allready working at this speed I took the jumpers off. My oh my!
POST! With 50% OC! Now, Windows wasnt installed yet, so there was no fear of corrupt data yet. Again, I went Googling for some info and found out that either 66 or 100 MHz FSB will set the PCI and AGP speeds correct. Wow, nice!
But prior to that, I set all back to default and installed Windows 98 on. After I was done with it, I took the jumpers off again and set the voltage (again, with the jumpers on the slot-card) a bit higher (from 2.0V default to 2.1V).
The moment of truth...Reboot...POST...OS loading...entered WINDOWS! Yeeha! But soon, my system froze. So I raised the voltage even higher, up to 2.2 this time and repeated. Worked. Tested some programs...worked. I even ran Super Pi and it did allright up until the 512K test. Bummer! At 2.3 I couldnt start Windows...at 2.4 neither. The cooler was warm but no big deal so I raised it up to 2.5. Still no go. The board had no sensors on so I couldnt read the fan speeds or the temperatures and decided to give it a rest. So much for my first Intel OCing experience.
Just out of curiosity, I set my jumpers back to default 2.0 V and gave it another try (I found it strange that higher voltage didnt work). Windows worked. Super Pi did too. 256K...512K...even 1M!! I was surprised. 2M passed allright and so did 4M! Now, since this is a Celly 366 and my GF only uses it for Word, Firefox and Excel I stopped testing it. Im not realy sure about the stability but I got a strong feeling it will do just fine.
Man, 50% OC at stock voltage...Call me sentimental, but those were the days.
My first Intel OCing experience - pure fun!
Cheers!
I just had a funny and joyfull experience OCing my GFs Celeron 366 and just out of fun, I decided to post my results here.
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The heart...
Preparation - do you see the AXP Barton box cooler on? Heh, it fits just great! I was worried a bit how the socket card will handle the extra weight but then I realised that it sits on on of the DIM slots nicely. I took off small alluminium heatsink and its 50mm stock fan and mounted on a very quiet low RPM 80 mm fan that was only bolted on one side (since it was to big). So, a little inovation was neccessary:
Weee...perfect so far!
Soon I realised, that the NB under this giant cooler will have warm airflow over itself, so I decided to mount on a small ALU heatsink that came on my Epox board as a default. Again (almost unbeleviable), it fitted so nicely that the CPU heatsink above leaned on totaly horizontaly. Now, the problem of warm air was still here. I decided to "reverse mount" the stock CPU fan above, on the big heatsink...like this:
Again, the bolts only came on one side. And since this one was quite a screamer (I opened and cleaned it but no good) I had to put two rubbers in between. Here's how it came out:
Ok! Off to the joy of OCing! I discovered very soon, that my multis are locked at 5,5. After some reading, I found out no one so far was able to unlock them. So what now? Well, raising the FSB seemed like a great idea but I was affraid to do it. Namely, the stock 66 FSB makes the PCI use 33 and AGP 66 which is normal. I only had the chance to raise the FSB to somewhere around 70 or 85. That would probably make PCI and AGP work at funny speeds and I just didnt want that. Then I took a closer look at the slot-card and read through the manual of a simmilar board. There were two jumpers, one on the card and the other one on the board - both with the sign TURBO66 on. Since it was allready working at this speed I took the jumpers off. My oh my!
POST! With 50% OC! Now, Windows wasnt installed yet, so there was no fear of corrupt data yet. Again, I went Googling for some info and found out that either 66 or 100 MHz FSB will set the PCI and AGP speeds correct. Wow, nice!
But prior to that, I set all back to default and installed Windows 98 on. After I was done with it, I took the jumpers off again and set the voltage (again, with the jumpers on the slot-card) a bit higher (from 2.0V default to 2.1V).
The moment of truth...Reboot...POST...OS loading...entered WINDOWS! Yeeha! But soon, my system froze. So I raised the voltage even higher, up to 2.2 this time and repeated. Worked. Tested some programs...worked. I even ran Super Pi and it did allright up until the 512K test. Bummer! At 2.3 I couldnt start Windows...at 2.4 neither. The cooler was warm but no big deal so I raised it up to 2.5. Still no go. The board had no sensors on so I couldnt read the fan speeds or the temperatures and decided to give it a rest. So much for my first Intel OCing experience.
Just out of curiosity, I set my jumpers back to default 2.0 V and gave it another try (I found it strange that higher voltage didnt work). Windows worked. Super Pi did too. 256K...512K...even 1M!! I was surprised. 2M passed allright and so did 4M! Now, since this is a Celly 366 and my GF only uses it for Word, Firefox and Excel I stopped testing it. Im not realy sure about the stability but I got a strong feeling it will do just fine.
Man, 50% OC at stock voltage...Call me sentimental, but those were the days.
My first Intel OCing experience - pure fun!
Cheers!
