well i did it from the advice etc u all gave me!!!! Now i got Duron 800mhz @ 848mhz Voodoo4500 @ 180mhz (default 166mhz) ive put the mini mini heatsinks on my voodoos ram which is cooling it down and well now my system is a il bit faster so yay!!! my vcore was 1.59 and is now 1.66 is that a big increase? Thanks you all so Much for all your help! Cheers Chris
Yeah i know buts its my 1st overclock i may go up another step, so that increase in my vcore isnt big then? Soz im chuffed with myself
im now at 872,i with 28c idle temp,i tried to push my voodoo a bit further but it just locks during games Otherwise this is good!!!
yeah ijust found my cordless drill battery charger at last!! so no wi can make my blowholes tomorrow!! if my bloehole kits arrive !!! w00t! my case temp is 28 and my cpu is 27 nice idle temp! yeah felix take your time! if the temp goes to high drop the mhz down
i dont overclock much anymore, as there isnt much point... took my xp 1800+ from 133fsb to 155mhz once...which got me to 1782.5mhz...
Pump your v-core up to 1.85. If you have a 100mhz bus then set the multiplier to 10x, if you're using a 133mhz bus then set your multiplier to 7.5x. You'll be running at 1ghz! Enjoy
i dont have that opiton in my bios, theres only default settings that go up, the highest settings on it gets me up 880 but my pc locks out using that.i cant set fsb speed and or mulitplyer speed separetly. is they a way i can do this? i unlocked my duron,but no new options appeared in my bios,is it my mobo? or didnti do it right?
ive had to drop it down to 848 becus if i go higher CS and max payne both lock out during game play,i must be doing something wrong,the temps to the cpus are fine they never go above 40c, i take it ive done something wrong!
hmm...seems to me that ur mobo is one of the limiting factors in your overclocking story...also could be on of the pci cards...
well I think the problem is that you're overclocking by raising your FSB. This is what higher end overclocker want to do because they're systems already have a very fast cpu - they're goal is not only to increase the cpu speeds, but also the ram speeds. They usually have motherboards that allow them to do this, but I don't get the feeling that you have one of those mobos. If you reached a speed of 872mhz and you are using a 6x multiplier (assuming you were running at 133mhz bus) that means that you pumped your FSB up to 145mhz... trust me, that is NOT going to be very stable. The only way you can pump some real potential out of that duron is by leaving the FSB alone and increasing the cpu multiplier in .5 increments (make sure you max out the v-core). Do this until your system will not boot. reset your cmos and use the highest multiplier that you were able to achieve. You should be able to set it to 7.5x with your V-Core at 1.85. THIS WILL CREATE A LOT OF HEAT! expect idle temps in the low 40's. Now run some tests and make sure it's stable. If it is then feel free to increase the FSB up to you're tested stability limit. With a generic mobo, I would not suggest exceeding 140mhz. If you can give me the make and model of your motherboard then I can check how to increase the multiplier for you. It will either be on the motherboard itself or in the bios. Happy OCing.
I had the same problem when I first started OCing my rig and the problem was the sound and NIC locking up due to being OCed on the PCI bus. I disbaled the on-board sound and NIC and went to an Audigy and 3Com NIC and haven't had any problems since. Of course I'm only up to 142FSB, but I'm taking it in slow steps and running the PC a week in between 4MHz jumps.
well... I looked though the whole motherboard manual and... there really isn't a way change the multiplier! I must say that I have never seen that on a non-retail comp before, but I guess that manufacturers do make mistakes from time to time and this must be one of them - this is a complete turn off for any computer enthusiest, I have no clue why they omited that option! Oh well, I guess that's the end of the overclocking journey then huh?
No you aint doing anything wrong. The ECS is a great little mobo but its not really designed for overclocking, it'll run stable for ever at stock speeds but it is severley limited in that the max fsb is 112 and has no multiplier settings - also the pci speed increases with every fsb increase stressing the components attached. I had the same settup as you 800 duron and ECS k7vza - the most I got the chip to boot @ was 880 (with added fans - not stable). I put the duron in my current mobo and got it to boot @ 1000 once - stable at 950ish.
ahh thats what it is! yeah in the bios theres only 1 setting that increases the whole lot at once,well i will buy new mobo at xmas,cheers for all the help!!!
