(Newbie) I have P3-700 sl45y w MSI 6337 815 Lite mobo. Got ?,s

[TheGhoul]

Hello,

I know a bit about overclocking but have forgot most as I have kinda had some probs and gave up.
I have a retail fc-pga P3-700 (sl45y chip with lapped Global Win fop32 heatsink with thermal paste), an MSI i815 ep Lite mobo (3 dimms no onboard sound or vid), 250w p supply, Infenion 1-128 pc133 1-256 pc133, Asus Geforce 256 ddr, Maxtor 27 gig ata 66 drive, Realtek 8139 nic card, Soundblaster pci 128, Yamaha 8x8x24 burner and no case fans.

I am a little pissed cause I had this chip doing 875 on my Abit BE6-II version 1 mobo which has died as far as I know, the keyboard port quit functioning, can this be fixed? The system boots but could not enter into bios. So I set it aside and have bought an MSI 6337 i815 Lite mobo based on what I read it seemed as good as what I had but supported pc133 and agp4x. I have not been able to overclock my system with this board, I have just got the latest 3.2 bios , have not tried, but previously if I raised the buss speed even 1 mhz the system would not power the monitor and this was even upping voltage to 1.75 and 1.85v. Sure the shitty "Fuzzy Logic Software" wll overclock the cpu to 804, then it is suppose to reboot but it does not it just freezes and I have to reboot and then it defaults to 700 again, so I can stop the test at 804 and it runs fine. I have not changed any other bios settings besides ram speed to 133 from 100. Anyone got any suggestions. I have tried to find a good old Abit BE6-II version 1 or 1.0 mobo to go back to with a slotket but I have not had luck. The Abit board was much more stable than the 815 I think

I am considering to sell the 700 and mobo and go to an AMD setup, I was wondering what mobo would be good that I could continue using my pc133 ram but eventually buy ddr ram, I am considering the AMD Thunderbird 1200MHz 266 (AMS3C) (socket A) chip

Whats the deal of via vs 815 chipset or the trusty old 440bx, I realize it will be faster than what I have but would it be better to just consider a P3 1gigger, I do game but I need the power for video encoding and some editing plus being able to multi task while the cpu is processing video (converting divx to vcd mpeg).

Thanks all feedback is appreciated
gixxer

 

[The Doors]

Hi TheGoul,
I've a similar Mobo and probably you must set the OverClocking jumpers (SW1) not on Auto, but on 100 to 133Mhz, after enter into Bios and set the properly Fsb,Cpu Voltage and Vio (Cpu Database can help you).
I cannot specify the right jumpers settings coz my users manual reports wrongly the settings! it's happen me also with an old Asus P2B!!!

I hope it helps you

 

[TheGhoul]

Well I got the board to overclock manually now since the latest bios. Runnning 770 for now using 1.65v and stock 3.4 vio . What other changes can be made in bios, I have enabled both system and video bios cacheable and have not touched SDRAM yet. It still is set to 3 but ram setting has been set to pc133.

Whats a good temp monitoring program to get?? Also safe voltage to use. I will be happy with 125 to 130 fsb, this chip should do it.

theghoul

 

[The Doors]

My personal experience say's that system & video Bios cache enabled does not affect performance, but sucks memory ;-) better set the Cas latency of mem's @2, increase bandwith.

About monitoring temps, voltages & Rpm fans the best prg is MotherBoradMonitor that you found at http://mbm.livewiredev.com/

For the Cpu voltage, well, Cpu database can help you, but generally 10/20% it's safe if you have a GOOD cooler
Look your Cpu temps and if aren't over 40 degree C @100% load you can rise the voltage and Fsb.
Be carefully, the best way is to set Fsb@133Mhz, with 125 or 130Mhz the Pci freq. generated aren't standard and you can have more probs with Pci cards and Hd with possible Fat corruption!!!