Overclocking a K6-2/450 to 600 Mhz?

[wfrench]

I am currently building a new computer which will have the K6-2 processor. I have read on several other message boards that some people were successfull in overclocking their K6-2 400's to 600 (and in some cases 612) stabily using many fans in the case, and large heatsinks.

I am just wondering what the best aproach to overclocking my k6-2 450 to 550-600 is.

I plan on using an alpha heatsink, and will have several fans in the case, which is a tower, but, will this cooling method work? Do I need to use peltiers or liquid cooling (which I plan on playing arround with on another computer)?

Any comments would be helpful.

My best,

William

The computer specs are as follows:
Epox ep-mvp3g-m motherboard
256 Megs of PC100 SDRAM
Diamond Viper V770 Ultra
Western Digital Expert 18 Gig 7200 RPM
Sound Blaster Live

[Ricardo]

Well Wfrench, I never saw one K6II-400 running higher than 500, I would like to see one of those miraculous computers that run at so higher speeds, mine, one K6II-300 is running since february at 400Mhz at nominal voltage, 2.2 volts, and in a cheaper MoBo PCCHIPS M577(by the way, is the same chipset of your MoBo,MVP3).
Even using a peltier or liquid coolers I think it's very hard to achieve so high speeds in this processor, but like the poet was sad: There are many things between the sky and the earth!!
Good luck and tell us if you will have success

[wfrench]

Yes, the chipset is MVP3. It could just be that the 400's overclocked to 600+ were either false statements, or a combo of just getting luck and getting a highly overclockable chip and having good cooling (?)

Anyways, I will try 550, and I will let you know if I get 600.

My best,

William

[Tim Lee]

I have tried to oc to 500MHZ and my comp won't start. I successfully oc to 450MHZ 2.3v rock solid. I wish I can break that 500MHZ mark..... I hate changing bus speed 'cuz I want a clean number not like 472.5....

Let me know if you could break 500MHZ mark. People say 500MHZ is the max. for AMD II

[JGene]

The only way that you are going to reach anything beyond 500MHz on a K6-2/III is using liquid-based cooling or something along the lines of Kyrotech's vapor-phase refridgeration units which can cool your chip down to -40C.

The K6-2/IIIs weren't ment to run at those speeds and I don't think the die is capable of such overclocking feats without some sort of super-cooling. AMDs weren't made to push the 500MHz mark--at least not on the current chip dies, maybe with the .18-based chips they can, but I don't think they can attain that speed now, with a few rare exceptions.

Most people can't reach 500MHz on their 450s, however most people who own a 400 can reach 450. I have heard of one guy who claimed he overclocked his 450 to 550MHz, but I belive that was a falsity.

I too ordered myself an Alpha fan, but I don't think that would be anywhere near enough to cool my chip to a sufficient enough temperature to run properly at 500MHz and beyond. Maybe after changing the swapping the peltier's cooling fan I may be able to pull it off but I doubt it...

Good luck overclocking, but I think you will probably have to settle for something around 475...

-JGene

[AMD Guy]

I agree. I think that the problem is in the on-die cache. The only way that I can attempt to boot at 500 is to disable the internal AND external cache!! This is with a K6-III 450. Best I can get is 475 out of my 450 and 450 out of my 400. I am running a Pa-2013 and I know that this motherboard will not run higher than 100 MHZ FSB so my O/C options are limited. It will still hang with many errors in the windows boot even if I am able to post at 500MHZ. Perhaps a different MB may lend to some overclocking and much better cooling. As is said above - I believe most of the claims of those speeds are false.

[Tim Lee]

I am able to run my 400 to 472.5MHZ solid 2.3V stable. I tried to run at 500MHZ but it only boots up half way and stops. I am able to boot up at safe mode. Sisoft multimedia Benchmark score is higher than PIII 550!


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