Overclocking a Athlon 1.33Ghz 266FSB....

[buhockey13]

anybody have any suggestions for configurations that work to overclock a Athlon 1.33Ghz 266FSB? Just curious.... be gentle I'm a OC virgin.....

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Abit KT7A (200/266)Mhz
Athlon 1.33Ghz 266FSB
GlobalWin FOP-32
RAM: 128M (PC-133)
3dfx Voodoo3 3000 PCI (16M)
SoundBlaster16 ISA
IBM 30G Deskstar
NEC 250M Zip drive, Iomega 2G Jaz drive (w/ Jaz Jet PCI)
NetGear FA311 NIC
USRobotics Int 56k
Windows 98 SE

[ol' man]

I'm not sure that your t-bird will overclock, sorry
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Seriously though it probably will you are just making me "jealous." Up the multiplier first and then maybe the FSB. If that don't work then go for upping the voltage. You need to make sure that your bridges are unlocked and you have a good cooling system. Be careful as to not crack your core. This can be done when removing your heattsink. A copper shim would be really a good investment as I am almost sure if you are not careful you will crack your core. Also

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Read all you can as you have the top of the line chip at the moment and you wouldn't want to wreck it. So please read all you can!

[squall3k]

As long as you are using a kt-133a board you can set the multiplier real low and the fsb to 133 and have plenty of options but with out a kt133a board you kinda stuck at 1.4 which is like 12.5*113 or somthing and thats if the board can handel 113 FSB

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When you cant find a way find a hammer.
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T-Bird .7 ghz @.9 ghz
cooled by a Global Win fop-38
On an Asus A7V Motherboard with
256 pc-133 ram
Hercules 3D Prophet II GTS Pro
Sound Blaster Live!
Creative Labs 8x DVD
Western Digital 7200 RPM 40 gig HD

[Todd a]

What kind of memory you got. If that is an Abit KT7A rev. 2 then they are hitting in the 166-183Mhz range for bus speeds. If you have good enough memory then this will give you the best performance. Just start raising the bus speed until things get unstable then back it off a bit. Sometimes raising the I/O voltage a bit will let you squease a bit more out of your memory. At 150Mhz you will be at 1.5Ghz with the default clock multiplier. If you can get some GOOD SDRAM that can do 150Mhz at cas2, then you will have a rock'n system.

Also even though the Voodoo3 is a good card, it is getting a bit dated and will be an anchor in a system like yours (along with the sound card). Man you must have dumped everything into getting a new MB, HD, and CPU.

Also the FOP32-1might not be up to too much overclocking, but as long as you can keep the temps under 50-55'C you should be OK.

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The COMPUTER is your FRIEND!
Happiness is manditory.

[Todd a]

By the way if the memory can't handle anything higher and you are really strapped for cash (considering the price of memory right now) then you can up the multiplier instead. As far as I know all 1.2+Ghz CPUs are shipped un locked. Just start upping the multiplier in .5x steps until it fails some benchmarks. You can bump it back and raise the bus speed a tiny bit to squease every last bit you can out of it.

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The COMPUTER is your FRIEND!
Happiness is manditory.

[buhockey13]

Todd,
Yes I did kinda of dump everything into the case, MB, CPU and HDD... I don't only have a 2 speaker system so what is the advantage to going out and buying SB Live! PCI if I won't reap the benefits... as for my Voodoo3 3000 I'm not quite ready to dump a load of cash (yet) on a new vid card (especially since my Voodoo seems to be working ok)... but I plan to upgrade to an Nvidia GF2 sometime in the future.... As far as my RAM goes it is an PC-133 128MB 16x64 8ns SDRAM DIMM...
Currently I'm running at 133FSB with the multiplier @ 10x = 1333Mhz = 1.33Ghz

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Abit KT7A (200/266)Mhz
Athlon 1.33Ghz 266FSB
GlobalWin FOP-32
RAM: 128M (PC-133)
3dfx Voodoo3 3000 PCI (16M)
SoundBlaster16 ISA
IBM 30G Deskstar
NEC 250M Zip drive, Iomega 2G Jaz drive (w/ Jaz Jet PCI)
NetGear FA311 NIC
USRobotics Int 56k
Windows 98 SE

[buhockey13]

Todd,
but I didn't spend "alot" on the system: Enlight 7237 case, Memory, HDD, CPU, CPU Fan, and Mobo ran me about $800... not bad IMHO...

So there is room yet for me (buget-wise) to upgrade my sound card, vid card, fan or memory... an other thing is I just put this together (like last week) so I'm not about to run out and get new memory, a cpu fan and such.... but the sound is definitely ancient!


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Abit KT7A (200/266)Mhz
Athlon 1.33Ghz 266FSB
GlobalWin FOP-32
RAM: 128M (PC-133)
3dfx Voodoo3 3000 PCI (16M)
SoundBlaster16 ISA
IBM 30G Deskstar
NEC 250M Zip drive, Iomega 2G Jaz drive (w/ Jaz Jet PCI)
NetGear FA311 NIC
USRobotics Int 56k
Windows 98 SE

[This message has been edited by buhockey13 (edited 04-03-2001).]

[This message has been edited by buhockey13 (edited 04-03-2001).]