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Jun 11, 2007, 10:53 PM
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Although I say I won't overclock....
...I did. If any of you remember reading my system specs for my old computer:
AMD Athlon T-Bird 950MHz MSI KM2M Combo motherboard 312MB RAM PC100 8MB ProSavage DDR onboard video 10gig hard drive Windows ME (I just upgraded it to XP this morning) that computer got a little overclock. It isn't much, but still, I am going to go in little chunks to avoid blowing it up 3 weeks later. Plus, there is no warranty on it (the 1 year expired). The CPUz and my BIOS say 850MHz, but to get the clock speed, the bus speed gets added on thats why I call it 950. Although the OC says 931.2MHz, I add the 109.6MHz bus speed to get 1040.8MHz. I know that 90.8MHz isn't a lot for an OC. My goal is to get it to 1.3GHz (and still be stable) I got it to the way it is from changing only one setting in BIOS. I changed the CPU Host / PCI Clock from 100 / 33MHz to 110 / 33MHz. This not only changed the bus speed of the CPU, but it also (for unknown reasons) changed the memory frequency. Stock  Overclocked  |
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Jun 11, 2007, 11:02 PM
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The real speed isn't the bus speed+core speed, it is just the core speed.
So you have an Athlon 850MHz, not a 950. The RAM speed goes up because it is directly linked to the Bus speed.
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Jun 11, 2007, 11:06 PM
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i always thought that for the older systems (pc133 and below) th bus speed and the core speed were added
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Jun 11, 2007, 11:18 PM
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^^ Never heard of adding anything to get a 'speed'.
My 486 DX2 was 66 MHz. Period. You don't add the 33MHz memory and make it 99MHz. Same with my old P2 266. It had PC133 memory and you don't say its 266+133, just 266. I wonder if you are getting it confused. Core speed is a multiplication of bus speed? and core multiplier. -> E6600 - 2.4 GHz = 9 (multi) * 266 (bus) = 2.394 GHz...get it?? Also, NEVER OC WITHOUT A TEMP PROBE. We still have no idea what your temp(s) are at... High temp blows stuff up, not overclocking. Not sure what utility would work with that rig...but its probably not a huge concern, just check it in the bios occasionally. |
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Jun 11, 2007, 11:34 PM
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the cpu doesnt support temp monitoring
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Jun 14, 2007, 11:08 PM
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i put it back to stock speeds, cuz 90MHz for an overclock didn't give me any type of speed boost. it just ran hotter (i had to put my hand on the heatsink), and made it unstable.
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