Overclocking newbie

[gavsdavs]

hi there

I've recently bought a VIA Apollo GA-6VXDC7 Dual motherboard and two PIII 866's. I've 256 CAS2 RAM - How do I go about overclocking this thing up to - say 1GHz ? I don't know very much about what I can vary- or where to look to find out ??

Any other users of the same sort of kit ?

Any advice ?

Gavs.

 

[dimmreaper]

I highly recomend that you read the begginers guides on the front page.

Basically all you need to do is raise the FSB, and maybe give a little Vcore to help it along.

But keep in mind that good cooling is not an option, its a neccesity! You may also find that the memory timings need decreasing, and I/O voltage may need to be raised.

 

[stool]

After you read the beginners guides, read thoroughly through your motherboard's manual. It will give you a basic idea of what jumpers, BIOS settings, etc, can be adjusted on your particular board.

 

[Daniel ~]

Move Post to "Intel Motherboards"

 

[gavsdavs]

I think I might have found my answer.

See: http://support.intel.com/support/processors/sspec/p3p.htm

At the bottom there are listed the 'notes' for each CPU type.

All of the PIII 866 Mhz chips have note '5' - "This processor's system bus operates at 133 MHz only".

Is that a hard and fast fact - its on their website ??

Gavs.