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REMEMBER THAT THIS IS ADVICE, WHAT YOU DO WITH IT IS UP TO YOU, SO IF YOU BLOW UP YOUR COMPUTER DONT SEND ME THE BILL, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

OK LETS START WITH WHY WE OC ANYTHING: ALL MANUFACTURERS BUILD THEIR CHIPS TO SPECIFICATIONS THAT MUST BE MET, SO THEY MAKE A BATCH OF 400MHZ CPU'S AND THEN TEST THEM LETS SAY PII'S AND THEY TEST THEM AT 400MHZ BUT THERE NOT QUITE STABLE, SO THEY GO DOWN TO 350MHZ BUT THERE MAY BE MINOR QUIRKS STILL SO THEY TEST IT AT 300MHZ AND IT RUN'S STABLE AT 300MHZ AND IT GETS A STAMP. THEY ALSO BUFFER THERE CPU'S AND THAT LEAVES MORE ROOM FOR OVERCLOCKING. JUST BECAUSE A CPU HAS A RATING DOESNT MEAN THAT IT CANT RUN HIGHER, IT JUST MEANS THAT THE MANUFACTURER WILL ONLY GIVE A WARRANTY AT A CERTAIN MHZ RATING! TO OVERCLOCK TO THE EXTREMES YOU WILL HAVE TO CHANGE YOUR VOLTAGE ON YOUR MOTHERBOARD TO A SLIGHTLY HIGHER ONE. THE REASON FOR THIS IS THAT THEY REQUIRE MORE POWER AND THIS WILL ALSO SHORTEN THE LIFE OF THE CPU, BUT WITH GOOD COOLING WERE TALKING 5 YEARS BEFORE CPU MIGRATION OCCURS. ALSO OVERCLOCKING CPU'S LIKE A CELERY 266A WILL NOT GIVE YOU MUCH BENIFIT AS IT IS A VERY SLOW PROCESSOR AND WILL BE BEATEN BY LOWER MHZ CPU'S THAT HAVE CACHE ON THEM. IN THE SAME LIGHT CYRIX AND IBM CPU'S ARE BASICALLY NO NO'S IN THE OC WORLD AS I HAVE SEEN TO MANY EARLY DEATHS OF THESE PROCESSORS TO RECOMMEND OVERCLOCKING THEM, BUT YOU CAN TRY IT AND YOU MAY GET LUCKY.

THE TABLES BELOW INDICATE WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT OUT OF YOUR PROCESSOR USING A STANDARD CONFIGURATION WITH SOME THERMAL PASTE. BY CHANGING YOUR JUMPERS ON YOUR MOTHERBOARD OR USING CPU SOFT MENU THROUGH BIOS, THE THINGS YOU ARE LOOKING FOR ARE MULTIPLIER AND BUS SPEEDS AND VOLTAGE SETTINGS. REMEMBER TO REFER TO YOUR MOTHERBOARD MANUAL FOR WHERE THESE SETTINGS ARE AS ALL MOTHERBOARDS ARE CREATED DIFFERENT. REMEMBER THAT THE HIGHER YOUR PROCESSOR IS PUSHED THE MORE POWER IT WILL REQUIRE SO CHANGE THE VOLTAGE SETTING, AGAIN REFER TO YOUR MANUAL FOR THE SETTING LOCATIONS. ALSO REMEMBER THAT YOUR RAM WILL PLAY A FACTOR IN IT AS WELL, IF YOU HAVE 66MHZ SDRAM THAN IT WILL GO NO HIGHER THAN 83.3 MHZ, IF YOU HAVE 100MHZ SDRAM THAN IT WILL LIKELY HIT 115MHZ BUT RARELY HIT 125MHZ, IF YOU WANT A HIGHER BUS THAN THIS THAN LOOK TOWARDS BUYING SOME 133MHZ SDRAM. YOU CAN ALSO SET YOUR RAM TO CAS 3 IN THE CMOS MENU WHICH WILL ALLOW YOU TO CLOCK IT HIGHER IF IT WONT DO IT ON CAS 2, YOU SET THIS IN THE BIOS.

***AMD***

ATHLON CPU'S NEED A SPECIAL PCB BOARD FIRST BEFORE YOU CAN OVERCLOCK THEM.
VIEW PIC OF AHTLON CHIP INTERNALS

THE K6-2'S WILL GENERALLY OC 50MHZ TO GET HIGHER YOU NEED TO CHANGE YOUR VOLTAGE. ON 66MHZ VERSIONS TRY FOR A 100MHZ BUS. DONT OVER DO IT WITH THE VOLTAGE OR YOU WILL FRY YOUR CPU. THE NEWER SHARPTOOTH CORE IS EVEN BETTER FOR OVERCLOCKING AND IT RUNS AT A LOWER VOLTAGE TOO WHICH WILL MAKE IT COOLER, SOME 450'S AND THE 500'S AND 550'S HAVE THIS NEWER CORE, THE 450'S HAVE A 2.2V CORE AND THE OLD ONES HAVE A 2.4V CORE. TRY NOT TO EXCEED 3V UNLESS YOU RUN A PELTIER, I FRIED ONE OF THESE RUNNING IT AT 3.3V BUT PEOPLE RUN THEM AT 3.5V WITH A PELTIER NO PROBS. THE BEST I HAVE HEARD OF IS A 350MHZ VERSION RUNNING AT 650 WITH WATER COOLED HEATSINK AT 3.5V AND HE HAD IT RUNNING IN TO A CAR RADIATOR. INSANE STUFF. OVERCLOCKING YOUR BUS SPEED ON A K6-2 WILL YEILD A BETTER RESULT THAN JUST CPU SPEED SO IF YOU HAVE A HIGHER BUS THAN 100MHZ ON YOUR MOTHERBOARD, LIKE 112MHZ THAN TRY IT, YOU WILL DEFINETELY SEE A BETTER BENCHMARK SCORE THIS WAY BUT YOUR RAM HAS TO BE ABLE TO TAKE IT. IF IT CANT THEN SET IT TO CAS 3 IN THE BIOS.

**INTEL**

THE STANDARD CELERONS HAVE NO CACHE AND ARE THEREFORE VERY OVERCLOCKABLE. THIS IS A BASIC TABLE OF WHAT CAN BE EXPECTED OUT OF YOUR CELERY BUT GENERALLY YOU CAN ACHEIVE MUCH HIGHER GAINS, EVEN ON NORMAL HEATSINKS AND FANS. IF YOUR DARING ENOUGH GO FOR A 100MHZ BUS, BUT YOU WILL NEED BETTER COOLING. REMEMBER THAT THE HIGHER YOUR PROCESSOR IS PUSHED THE MORE POWER IT WILL REQUIRE SO CHANGE THE VOLTAGE SETTING, BUT ONLY IF IT IS UNSTABLE, AND ONLY .1V AT A TIME.

BY INSTALLING A COUPLE OF DIP SWITCHES IN THE FRONT OF YOUR CASE AND ATTACHING THEM TO YOUR JUMPERS YOU CAN CHANGE SETTINGS WITHOUT OPENING YOUR CASE EVERY TIME.

WELL THERE YOU HAVE IT, IF WHAT YOU WHERE LOOKING FOR WAS'NT HERE THEN IT PROBABLY DOESNT EXIST, IF YOU HAVE ANY RELEVANT INFORMATION YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE HERE THEN SEND IT TO US PRONTO. THANKS, FROM REDLINE.

PAGES ON ADVANCED ISSUES, CLICK ON ROOMS BELOW.

SOON TO BE ADDED IS A TABLE ON PENTIUM III CPU'S.

YOU CAN GET ALOT MORE OUT OF MOST CPU'S, BUT FOR MY SAKE I MENTION ONLY MINOR GAINS.