Limiting Factors?

[Wa11y]

I wanted to make a computer with a Duron 800 and an IWill KA-266 mobo. The mobo says it will handle up to a 1.2GHz. Does that mean that the most I'd be able to OC my processor to would be 1.2GHz? It also says it will support a 266MHz bus. Does that mean all I can OC it to is 266MHz? What sort of limitations am I looking to have to overcome? Naturally, there's getting enough power to the chip, and heat away from it, and those can be beat with a good power supply, and a good cooling system, respectively.

 

[UnseenMenace]

Wa11y (May 22, 2001 03:44 p.m.):
I wanted to make a computer with a Duron 800 and an IWill KA-266 mobo. The mobo says it will handle up to a 1.2GHz. Does that mean that the most I'd be able to OC my processor to would be 1.2GHz? It also says it will support a 266MHz bus. Does that mean all I can OC it to is 266MHz? What sort of limitations am I looking to have to overcome? Naturally, there's getting enough power to the chip, and heat away from it, and those can be beat with a good power supply, and a good cooling system, respectively.

The only hope you have of getting a Duron 800 to 1.2 ghz is prayer, its fairly safe to assume that a unlocked Duron 800 however will reach somewhere around 1 ghz providing you can keep it cool which requires a good hsf and possibly case cooling. The Duron will run happily on a fast system bus of 133 mhz and possibly slightly higher depending upon the quality of the components and RAM. DDR ram is currently not worth paying for as its performance gains are minimal over SDRAM.
A unlocked Duron 800 with good quality HSF and good quality 133 mhz SDRAM should see you somewhere around 1 ghz.
I would suggest your read the beginners guides on the front of this site to get a better idea of the task ahead..
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Hard Drive Cooler
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Sound Blaster Live Value
Full Tower with 5 (120 mm) case fans with seperate PSU

 

[David]

when it says that 1.2Ghz is the maximum, don't take it for granted. The manual/documentation could have been written before AMD released the 1.3 and 1.33GHz versions.

It could also mean that the highest Default speed that it supports is 1.2GHz ie It can use 1.2GHz processors 'out of the box'. It will be able to reach higher mulyipliers and bus speeds.

If it only takes a maximum of 1.2GHz it may only take the highest multiplier of 12 (12x100) and the highest FSB at 133MHz . But, if you put these together then the maximum would be 133x12 which is 1596. If you even want to get it past 1.2GHz, start praying now

You will have plenty room for OCing, the CPU will limit the OCing, not the mobo

 

[oc jason]

No that is not the highest that the chip will go-but i havent ever seena Duron that high so i wouldnt worry about it-and yes the FSB can hit 266( its actually 133 double pumped-266FSB is actually 133, which is the normalo on most comps