Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 14:23:21 +0100 From: "Alex Slater" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Successful 70CT overclock
Thanks for all the good advice here (currently and in the archive), I Successfully overclocked my 70CT to 150Mhz. I was going to go for 166Mhz but after looking at the pins on the chip, looking at my soldering iron, and then weighing up my soldering skills Vs 16Mhz more (though the faster bus speed would've been nice) I decided against it. 150Mhz will do just fine :-) One thing I noticed, I was testing my machine after doing the overclock and I hadn't put the RAM expansion back in, and I was amazed at how much slower Win95 was on 16Mb. I actually thought I'd managed to underclock the CPU ! Running at 150Mhz gives around 22% better integer performance, and 25% better floating point performance. Here's some before and after benchmarks (from Wintune 97). Standard 70CT @ 120Mhz (60 x 2) : [CPU] CPU type=Intel Pentium P55C with MMX Clock rate=120 MHz CPU load=0% Dhrystone=216 MIPS Whetstone=68 MFLOPS CPU class=586im CPUID1=0x0543 0x8001BF WTA version=1.5.12 [MEMORY] Installed RAM=32 MB Windows RAM=31.6 MB Free RAM=0.102 MB Memory used=88 % RAM Read avg=249 MB/s RAM Write avg=37 MB/s RAM Copy avg=29 MB/s Overclocked 70CT @ 150Mhz (60 x 2.5) : [CPU] CPU type=Intel Pentium P55C with MMX Clock rate=150 MHz CPU load=0% Dhrystone=264 MIPS Whetstone=85 MFLOPS CPU class=586im CPUID1=0x0543 0x8001BF WTA version=1.5.12 [MEMORY] Installed RAM=32 MB Windows RAM=31.6 MB Free RAM=0.109 MB Memory used=82 % RAM Read avg=291 MB/s RAM Write avg=37 MB/s RAM Copy avg=29 MB/s Thanks again for all the help. Regards, Alex. ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
