Abit BE6+II , P3 800 mmx EB, geforce help?

[mOe]

First, I am pretty new to these forums and to the subject of overclocking as a whole. I am 25 years old, and a computer major at a local college (where I am also an Asssistant Network Administrator through a work study program).

From what I have been reading lately, (and that is a lot), I have come to realize that my system has potentials that I never knew existed. At the time I bought my system I tried to piece together a nice piece of equipement that was made with reliable name brand equipement that would perform well.

This is a basic description of core parts of my computer:

Mainboard :Abit BE6-II
Processor : Pentium3 800EB mmx
Video Card : Asus V6800 GeForce 32mb ddr
Ram : 128mb pc133 sdram

Right now I'm running stock with every setting.
In the bios Softmenu3, there is an option for it to recogize the chip # , it automatically selected the 800
speed with 133 fsb and filled in the rest with default settings.

I am not looking to go crazy like some of the other stuff I have read about here tonight, like peltiers and such, mechanical fans should be ok for any overclocking that I want to do.

Basically I have read that quite a few of you have had experience with the BE6-II and P3 chips and I was wondering if you could share your experiences with me in that what low-risk things I can do to make it run more towards the capacity that it can do?

 

[mOe]

Pleeeeeeaaaaaassssseeeeeee???????????

 

[Tim-]

I don't have any experiecne with the BE6, but I have a BF6, which is the same board minus the highpoint controller. I have a PIII-700 running at 1050MHz on it. The BE6/BF6 both have softmenu bios menus, which make it quite easy to overclock. One of the cpu choices is called "user defined" and will allow you to select from a large variety of FSBs. Your system looks very sound, and a good platform for some overclocking, so th efirst step is to select an FSB higher than you are currently running, and see how it likes it. RAM and video cards can both have a limiting factor here, but you should be able to gain some ground. I'd try a value around 140 and see if it will run with stability.

Once you have found the point at which stability suffers, then an increase in Vcore or additional cooling may be called for to resolve it. Whatever speed you can achieve at a Vcore of 1.85v or less, at reasonable temps is a good place to let it burn in for a bit. From then on it becomes more of an exercise in "attention to detail".

Give it a whirl, and let us know the outcome. Good luck!

 

[DaveB]

While you have an overclocker's mobo, and a great video card for high AGP rates, those 133 MHz PIII's won't O/C very far. Your multiplier is locked at 6, so even if you can push the FSB to 150 MHz, you'll only be running at 6x150=900 MHz. At that point the AGP would be at 100 MHz and the PCI at 37.5 MHz. Your hard drive and GeForce card should be able to handle that. But it's not likely you can get much further without high-end SDRAM.

On the other hand, if you had a 100 MHz PIII 800 with a multiplier of 8, you'd only have to push the FSB to where it is now (133 MHz) to get to 8x133=1064 MHz. When you're thinking O/C, always get a 100 MHz PIII and not a 133 MHz version.

 

[mOe]

according to my manual for multiplier factors I have :
from 2 to 8 at increments of .5 ?
Are you saying that if I switch to user defined settings that I won't be able to use the 8 multiplier?

 

[Tachyon]

mOe (Feb 07, 2001 03:28 p.m.):
according to my manual for multiplier factors I have :
from 2 to 8 at increments of .5 ?
Are you saying that if I switch to user defined settings that I won't be able to use the 8 multiplier?

All Intel chips are multiplier locked. You have those options to support different chips (700e=7x100, 800EB=6x133, etc.) but you can adjust your FSB speed via the BIOS up from the current 133MHz and you have overclocked. Watch your CPU temp's as you start overclocking so you don't damage your chip.

 

[DaveB]

That's correct, you can't actually change the setting. The multiplier is hard-wired into the CPU itself. The BX chip only reads the multiplier from the CPU. No matter what you do, the multiplier will always be 6.