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"Overclocking past a max FSB"

ok, so my motherboard in one of my PCs has a 333mhz FSB. I just installed a 2800+ Barton into it (on a GA-7VAXP Rev1.1 Mobo).

Its on an FSB of 334 atm, never exactly on the said FSB as always.

Anyway, on a mobo with a 333mhz FSB, how much further over that could I get? I just raid in PC format I could put a better northbridge cooler on and put the excisting cooler on the southbridge to get further past the max FSB. This work!?

Thanks for any help.


Dan.

What is Vdimm and Vcore?

If you don't need the modem, lose it. It'll fry.

*bump*

Strange. I cant get past 2300mhz now, unless I was dreaming about 2375...

At 2325mhz it just freezes the whole screen, which is AGP 74 and PCI 37 I think. What is limiting me? The Modem?

I have the memory running slow so its 368mhz, and its twinmos pc3200, so that aint limiting me.

Volts make no difference, so is it the PCI Device?

no. I was gonna use the shorting technique with a wire into the correct holes. But it only unlocks upto 12.5, which my CPU is anyway.

I know if I unlocked it, I could lower it to get a higher FSB, but as my mobo aint a 200mhz FSB board or PCI Lockable, there is no point as I wont be able to get far enough to make it worthwhile.

Is your mulitplier unlocked?

AMD_MAN wrote:
> I have a P4 2.4 chip that ran at 3.2ghz
> just on air but i also had in one of my other machines a P4 2.8 that
> would only do a max of 3gig on air with the system being stable.
>
> colin

Those damn unpredictable 2.8 chips!!! (similar experience here)

2300mhz easy, no problems. I wont go past 36mhz PCI though.

Nice and cool still, stable. inproved another 50 3DMark Points. No extra Vs yet.

brb, im gonna set it at FSB184

Yeah, thats a good point.

Its a D-Link Modem. The Onboard sound is AC97 and the LAN is Realtek.

One last thing, Arctic Silver 5 takes around 200 hours to properly settle. So you might notice another degree or so drop in temps in a week or two.