How to overclock my P3-450@558 on BX6 v.2 ?

[rocky]

First of all, I'm just a newbie of this overclocking field. I just got a boxed P3-450 chip today and wondering...

- How can I set to overclock @558 from BIOS?
- It comes with the original fan from Intel, do I need to replace it with a bigger one?

Thanks in advance!

[tharkun8]

You have to set your Front side bus
to 124 mHz. The multiplier in the
chip is locked at 4.5 so
124 * 4.5 = 558mHz. I'm not sure
how stable it will be but you'll
find out. You might want to look into
getting a better fan/heatsink setup.
overclocking makes extra heat and you'll
need the extra power. Alpha cooling systems
are pretty good. check out www.3dfxcool.com

[stano]

My P3 450 was not stable at 558 it crashed
half way into the 3Dmark99 benchtest.
It was stable at 527 however I have cas 3
ram which could be the cause of the crash.
I've heard of others having sucess.

[rocky]

I had my CPU just overclocked to 558mhz and was running different apps and 3D games for half days. Everything seems to be fine and stable. However, it's now my first priority to get a bigger fan coz the CPU and my AGP video card was burning so hot. The funny thing was my air condition unit near my pc case so close, which I could open it up and blowed the freezing air right into the case. The A/C became an excellent cooling system for my cpu!! I will try to overclock it to 600mhz once I get a bigger heat sink and fan.

Thanks Tharkun8 !!

[Cruiser]

Rocky-- What motherboard are you using? Check out HardwareCentrals review of the Soyo SY-6BA+:
http://www.hardwarecentral.com/hardwarecentral/reviews/907/4/
It says its stable to 558MHz..
Just my 2 cents worth.

[rocky]

I'm using Abit BX-6 rev2. It has been very stable @558 and @600 mhz and I'm very satisfy with ABit's quality. Also, I have just placed an order for another newly released Abit BE-6 motherboard for my second pc.