ABIT SE6 Overclocking questions?

[Unique]

Hi there!

I have a PIII Coppermine 700E cCO Stepping with a ABIT SE6 motherboard. What are the settings in the softmenu to get this bad boy up to a gig?

I have 256 megs of pc133 ram and a untra 100 IBM 30 gig harddrive.

I would like to know what to change to get my ram,harddrive and cpu running To there optimum speeds.

Hope someone can help!

 

[marty]

In Soft Menu do the user defined for the FSB. Try to go up a little at a time from 100 to 133. You will likely have to up the voltage a bit. Don't go too far with the voltage increase without improving your heatsink/fan to something better than what likely came with the motherboard. When and if you change the heat sink add thermal grease to the sink for better performance. To check the temperature of the CPU and motherboard use Motherboard Probe or Motherboard Monitor. In SoftMenu also disable speed error hold.

The only other things to disable are video BIOS shadowing and system BIOS shadowing. These are choices on one of the chipset screens.

Good luck, go slow with the increases and keep an eye on your temperatures.

 

[batboy]

Marty, looks like we have another SE6/P-III 700 overclocker. Unique, welcome to our brotherhood. First off, to reach 1 gig, you need really good cooling and usually a bump in voltage. First, walk before you run... try 933 and test everything thoroughly. Ignore idle temps and look at load temps. My system will easily do 933 @ 1.75v.

These are my settings when I run 1015 MHz (your mileage may vary). User defined bus speed of 145 (4,3,1), user defined core voltage of 1.85, and CAS latency of 3. Oh, did I mention that you'd better have good cooling? If you have problems or more questions, keep posting here.

 

[Unique]

Ya thanks for the replys guys!

I was up to 1008 and sandra benched me faster then a pIII 1 gig : )

I droped it back down after that though to burn my chip in.

I'm working on my Fan Bus right now after this is finished I will tear it all back down for the paint work then after i get it back up and running I will post my case mods here.

Agian thanks for the help!!

 

[batboy]

Unique, how did you get to 1008 with a SE6 and a P-III 700??? The fsb settings go from 140 (980 MHz) to 145 (1015 MGz) with no settings in between. If you discovered a secret, please tell us. Maybe you have a later version SE6 motherboard??? Or was that a typo???

 

[Unique]

Well not sure of the bios version but it's like a 3 day old board if that tells you anything. I can't remeber all but I think I had it at FSB 145 4:4:1 with core volts up to 1.95.

Let me know if you need any info off my board or my bios version ect.


Gonna go play with it some more!! : )

 

[Unique]

Well I cleaned off the wite thermol goop and replaced it with my new Artic Silver II and my temp dropped 13degrees and now I can play Unrel Tournament Stable @ 1008 mhz FSB 145 4:4:1 1.95v After a little action I will drop the vots down a bit to lower the temp.

But i'm on my way and i'm real happy with this setup.

 

[DocClock aka MadClocker]

I just can't seem to run4-4-1 in my setup...4-3-1 ok, but it won't even boot at 4-4-1 @ 150fsb...I haven't tried 4:4:1 at any of the lower bus speeds..it never occured to me...but according to cpuid, my mem is running at the same speed as the bus, 151.36...if I understand it correctly, when you set it at 4:4:1, the mem bus is supposed to be running at 100? that really confuses me to no end. Why can't they just have the apg devider setup to allow you to choose 1/2, 2/3, or 1 to 1 and have a seperate setting for memory/cpu bus ratio...why all this cryptic Sh*t?
All I know for sure is that mine works at 4:3:1 @ 150+ cas2, or cas3, other than that, I know didly about this mem cpu agp crap..and from what I've heard, Asus has the same system for adjusting these settings.
Abit does a fair job of explaining...but not enough. I still don't know how, I just know it does, and that's what bothers me

 

[batboy]

Doc, on the Abit boards the first number is the CPU bus speed, the second is memory bus speed and the third number is PCI bus speed. CPU bus always is a 1/1 ratio (or equal to the fsb speed), so divide all the numbers by the first number. For example 4,3,1 would now equal 4/4,3/4,1/4 in this case. Memory bus runs at 3/4 the fsb and PCI runs at 1/4 the fsb speed. Clear as mud, huh?

 

[Unique]

What are you guys running your voltage at? 1.95? 1.90? Just want to compare....

Thanks

 

[marty]

I have to use 1.9 volts to get to 933/133 on my PIII700.

 

[batboy]

To be honest, I usually run my machine 700/1050 @ 1.9v because it seems happier at that speed and voltage (runs a tad cooler too). I reserve top speed (see my signature) mainly for benchmarking forays.