On Wednesday 06 March 2002 01:34 pm, you wrote:
> This thing is running quite well and seems real snappy running X
> Now I want to know about fine-tunning it.
> What are people using for overclocking?
> and what CPU Freq Multiplier?
> I have the multiplier on AUTO, so I am not sure what speed the CPU is
> running at.  /proc/cpuinfo says 1.4 Ghz but I think it gets that from the
> CPU not actual clock.
> And do I want to fool with the cpu volts?
>
> I am not using overclocking, bus is set for 133 MHZ
> TIA for any info

Well, as far as I have heard, the old "pencil the bridges" maybe a recipe for 
disaster on the new XP's.  So you can't CPU Multi overclock since all 
Athlons, reg and XP are locked.  And 1.4 is the correct clock for a 1700+ XP. 
 So in this case FSB overclocking is your only real option.  Of course that 
can mess up plenty of stuff (PCI bus, etc.)  By that I mean, instability as 
the FSB speed increases, with a small possibility of damage.  Most places I 
have seen place 150MHz as a upper limit that is very hard to acheive.  

If you really are interested in overclocking, you should look at some 
hardware oriented sites, such as www.overclockers.com www.arstechnica.com the 
MaximumPC forums has a decent OC community.

In my opinion, to OC you need good cooling, determination, and a fat wallet 
to replace broken parts!

Jeff

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