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general questions about overclocking...

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scottatwittenberg

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ok... some of you may have read that i am the new owner of 11 computers that were going to be thrown away at my work...

anyways.. here i have a pII 233, a pII 350, and a pIII 750 (it is wierd cause it is from a dell and doesn't fit into the brackets quite right) all of these are slot 1

so i got this board.. a Gigabyte GA-6BXS.. it has a little blue box with 4 switches... from the looks of it, it mulitplies the bus speed.. i can go anything from like 2x to 5.5x... it was set at 3.5... so i figured that switching it to 5.5 would make the cpu post as pII running at 550 mhz... but it still says 350... i put the pIII 750 in there, and it didn't run...

now i also have to ECS boards.. they are socket and slot combo boards... the originally had 333 celeron socket processors in them...

but i got one running.. i put the 750 pIII in there.. and it ran.. no problems.... i can also go into bios and change the mhz pretty easily. the two pIIs work in there also.. the 333 looks like it has a bus speed of 66 and the other one is 100...

so here we go... i would like to either.. get the 750 pIII running in that gigabyte board... or overclock the pII 350 in it... i want to use it becasue a. gigabyte should be way more reliable than the ecs... and B, it has ultra wide scsi on it, and i have a 10 gig ultra wide scsi drive that also was in the computer..

so does anyone know about the gigabyte board? i looked it up online and peopel said they are running 750 mhz on it.. but i can't see how.. it appears to only go up to 550..

and then more generally... what are people's experiences with overclocking pII slot processors? how would i go about doing it? is it worth it?

i guess that is it for now..

thanks

scott
 
i don't know why you would want to mess with those comps for in your sig you got a comp that is twice as fast maybe more if you oced that one
 
Originally posted by scottatwittenberg
ok... some of you may have read that i am the new owner of 11 computers that were going to be thrown away at my work...

anyways.. here i have a pII 233, a pII 350, and a pIII 750 (it is wierd cause it is from a dell and doesn't fit into the brackets quite right) all of these are slot 1

so i got this board.. a Gigabyte GA-6BXS.. it has a little blue box with 4 switches... from the looks of it, it mulitplies the bus speed.. i can go anything from like 2x to 5.5x... it was set at 3.5... so i figured that switching it to 5.5 would make the cpu post as pII running at 550 mhz... but it still says 350... i put the pIII 750 in there, and it didn't run...

now i also have to ECS boards.. they are socket and slot combo boards... the originally had 333 celeron socket processors in them...

but i got one running.. i put the 750 pIII in there.. and it ran.. no problems.... i can also go into bios and change the mhz pretty easily. the two pIIs work in there also.. the 333 looks like it has a bus speed of 66 and the other one is 100...

so here we go... i would like to either.. get the 750 pIII running in that gigabyte board... or overclock the pII 350 in it... i want to use it becasue a. gigabyte should be way more reliable than the ecs... and B, it has ultra wide scsi on it, and i have a 10 gig ultra wide scsi drive that also was in the computer..

so does anyone know about the gigabyte board? i looked it up online and peopel said they are running 750 mhz on it.. but i can't see how.. it appears to only go up to 550..

and then more generally... what are people's experiences with overclocking pII slot processors? how would i go about doing it? is it worth it?

i guess that is it for now..

thanks

scott
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throw that junk away dude:rolleyes:
 
it is a long story, but the comp in my sig is sitting at my university's police department with evidence stickers on it, along with a few other of my computers, my printer, scanner... so yeah.. i don't have any computers... except the 11 that i got for free... i just want to know if i can overclock that pII 350 with that gigabyte board...

i just need something to get my by.. and i have all the shit.. and some free time.. i just don't have any documentation for any of the motherboards, and have no experience overclocking computers... so i thought it would fun to do..
 
the 750 is probably worth keeping but not ehe others unless u want to use the 333s for file servers or something.

anyways i expect you need a BIOS update for that gigabyte to support the "faster" cpu.
 
WE will be willing to read why your computer has evidence stickers on it

w00t

tell us :D
 
Originally posted by Cloud15x
WE will be willing to read why your computer has evidence stickers on it

w00t

tell us :D
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++ think of it as group therapy....
 
well.. if everyone really wants to know... someone gave my name to the university police for making them a fake id..

they didn't find anything id related on my computers because i deleted all the stuff long ago and had minimal free HD space, so the stuff was probably overwritten several times...

anyways... they claim they are going to file charges... it is only based on statements though... so i should be able to clear it up with a lawyer, the problem is that all the money i made will be spent for the lawyer...

so the moral of the story is.. don't make fake ids...
but not really.. i think it is more along the lines of.. .don't make them for profit... make them for yourselves and friends... but not people that will turn you in when confronted by law enforcement...
 
AFAIK, intel has been locking the multipliers on their cpus ever since they originally went to the slot design. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, BUT, the hot thing about the celeron 300a was that you could take the cpu, run the bus at 100mhz, and the cpu would run at 450mhz. The reason why the cpu still posts at 350, is because you can't change the multiplier on it, I would think. You should be able to change the FSB, though. No idea on the PIII 750, but that's my thoughts on why you can't change the multiplier to overclock.
 
i changed the multiplier physically on that motherboard... that is the only way to do it... it still says it is a 350mhz on the post screen.... is it actually running at 550? and i don't know it??
 
It doesn't matter if you use dip switches or jumpers or bios settings, the multiplier is still locked.
 
oh, is there a way to unlock them? or do you change voltages and shit.. which i can't do.. unless i maybe find a bios upgrade taht will let me?
 
AFAIK, there's no way to unlock them. But as I said, you can always increase the FSB. You'll need to go download motherboard manuals for the mobo's you have though, to make sure you're flipping the right switches.
 
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