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Ya`akov N Miles (ynmiles@ibm.net)
Tue, 13 Apr 1999 02:49:21 -0700
Roberto Pavan wrote:
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> Now, most m/bs provide some 'unsupported' system bus speeds. For example, my
> ASUS TVP4 can provide a bus speed of 75MHz. With this setting, and a clock
> multiplier of 1.5x, I run my P233 at ~266MHz. This is called 'overclocking',
> and would be the simplest and cheapest way to give yourself a performance
> boost, assuming your m/b can do it. When overclocking, the most important
> thing is to make sure the CPU stays as cool as possible, so it is imperative
> that a good CPU fan is used, and that it mounted using thermal contact paste.
> The other thing to do is to make sure your PCI cards can handle the increased
> bus speeds. The easiest way to find out is to try. If your system becomes
> unstable, the best thing to do is to go back. I've been overclocking for about
> 3 months now, and I haven't experienced any problems. Though BogoMIPS aren't
> really a good indicator of performance, the speed reported at boot went from
> 467 to 526 BogoMIPs when I did my overclock. That's an increase of around 12%
> - not much, but better than nothing.
> --
> Your faithful narrator,
> Roberto Pavan rpavan@physics.ubc.ca
I have a 'Titanium I' (P51430TX-250) Taiwanese motherboard, and it allows me to
force a bus speed of 75 mHz instead of the Intel recommended 66 mHz for a P233.
Thus I have effectively a P266 and have run that way with NO special cooling and
NO thermal compound for over a year. My system is 100% stable, PCI cards and all.
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