23 Jul
2004
23 Jul
'04
7:45 p.m.
tim hall wrote:
Hmm, another very useful thread. It prompted me to have
a look at my BIOS,
which I'm generally a bit nervous about looking at too closely.
I'm using an AOpen MX3W motherboard with a Celeron Coppermine 600MHz
processor. I wondered if the CPU speed was set rather low at 66.8 x 3.5, so I
upped the multiplier to 8 (max) to bring the result to 566, which I think
works with having an FSB of 100MHz. My system seems perfectly happy so far,
in fact I'd almost swear it was running cooler, but I've not checked. I don't
think the increase in speed of the delivery of graphics to the screen is my
imagination. Sorry, that's a bit of a fluffy explanation. If I'm obviously
heading for trouble here, I'd appreciate the warning.
In any case thanks for the discussion. From here, I think with a faster Hard
Drive and some more memory I'm going to feel like I've got a whole new
machine!
Thanks again.
tim hall
Yes, I would think that you would notice a big difference. If
before adjusting you had a 66.8mhz fsb x 3.5 multiplier = 233.8mhz and
after you have a 66.8mhz fsb x 8.0 = 566mhz. You might want to check and
see if you have a fan on your cpu (I have a 566mhz that doesn't), if not
and you do notice instability adding one would probably fix it. Also if
you dont have a fan now, adding one for $10 is a cheap way to overclock
it. I'm wondering though, where does the 100mhz fsb you mentioned come
in? You will either have a 66.8mhz fsb times a multiplier or a 100mhz
fsb times a multiplier
As far as memory goes, I think most people that read this list
would agree that you can never have to much. When you run out of
physical ram and have to swap to disk it slows the machine waaayy down
(and causes dropouts).
Rick B