Please tell me im WRONG

[oc jason]

I have a classic athlon 600-on the basic Gateway board (Jabil Kadoka) and i am posotive that i cannot overclock it-unless i get a GFD, and if i do what divisor do i need to set the L2 cache if im gonna run at 800+(1/3-1/2-2/5) because i know that with only 512k cache that if i dont adjust the L2 that it will be pointless after 700-750mhz due to the divisor-but mathlon can ix tha right???? (id like to hit 850, is that psossible) with my gear?

 

[Pat]

If your bios has the ability to change the FSB, then that is the only way to increase your speed without installing a GFD. Most can handle no higher than 110 or it becomes very unstable. it hten throws your PCI Clock system out of whack!

Pat

 

[Maddman]

Reaching 800 or 850 all depends on the processor on the slot card, on my athlon classic it had a .25 cpu so it wasn't able to over clock far with out major cooling and voltage upping witch I wasn't to keen on myself. I believe the divisor on your cache should be 1/3 for 800 - 850 mhz the 2/5 was for the 1gig processors. You will need a GFD to change the multiplier on the chip and I think there is a utilities for changing the cache divider not to sure about that well hope that helps

 

[Commited]

Whats GFD and where can i get it?
Will it work with a PIII 500 gateway that i cant overclock?

 

[Bovon]

GFD = Gold Fingers Device...

Read here: http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1440

 

[oc jason]

Commited (Mar 23, 2001 04:47 p.m.):
Whats GFD and where can i get it?
Will it work with a PIII 500 gateway that i cant overclock?

Yes it will work on your P3 500, you can get good ones at northwindcomputers.com of a freespeed ninja(a GFD)