Ian already got all of the details, and very well at that, so I'll just post
my overclocking success with my Duron 750... 900MHz, absolutely ROCK SOLID
stable, the original AMD heatsink/fan, and I don't even think I had to crack
1.8v to do it. I got it to 927 for a while, but started getting mild
instability, so dropped to 900 and all is well.
Only other thing I can think of is to make sure if you're running PC133
RAM - you should be, PC100 is hard to find these days - and set your BIOS so
that the RAM is running at 133MHz. I think all SocketA chipsets can pull
this off; I know the KT133 on the aforementioned Duron box can.
Durons are really great, cheap CPUs...Intel has absolutely nothing on
them....my personal box is a Celeron 900, which will only get to 928 and not
1 MHz faster, no matter how many volts I feed it...and the Duron slaughters
it in almost every benchmark (except hard drive, because my box also has a
shiny new Maxtor D740X, compared to the Duron's WD300AB)
Milhouse
> Hi ya Richard.
> The pencil has unclocked the multiplier so you can push this as far as it
> goes. If you have good cooling, 1 GHz is not out of the question by using
a
> 10 multiplier on a 100 (double pumped to 200) bus. The voltage you can
push
> as high as 1.82 normally without a problem, but 1.8 should be safe and
give
> it the extra charge it needs. Again it's about cooling the better the
cooler
> the higher you can push it. The higher the voltage, the hotter the chip
> gets.
> For the FSB, you don't need to change - this should have always been
> available as an option anyway even before you closed the bridges depending
> on your M'board. The more you overclock the FSB, the better your RAM must
be
> to cope, and the cooling on the chipset also then becomes an issue. If you
> have passive cooling, ie. just a sink, I wouldn't worry about the bus, as
> you'll get a good performance hike from the multiplier alone.
> I got my Duron 700 up to 950 MHz with a 9.5 multiplier on the standard 100
> bus.
> Good luck!
> Ian
> www.simbin.com
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> x-no-archive: yes
> Guys - I'm a bit e***d, 'cause I just discovered the Duron L1 pencil
trick
> for overclocking, and I'm gonna give it a go, as I bought my CPU quite
late,
> and the chances of overclocking it are quite high.
> Trouble is, I'm short on data for bus speeds, multipliers, and voltages.
> I have an AMD Duron 750. Can anyone tell me, or point me to a site that
will
> tell me what the bus, multiplier and voltage should be, and what
> combinations I can try when overclocking?
> Thanks.
> R.
> PS...Before I get a flood of questions, the "Duron L1 pencil trick for
> overclocking" details can be found here:
> http://www.racesimcentral.net/
