Overclocking

Finally the part you have all been waiting for. When I tried to overclock the processor, I decided to just throw caution to the wind and crank the front side bus to an amazing 133Mhz. Upon reboot, the system started up fine at the default 1.65 volts. I watched with amazement as the system posted 800Mhz and loaded windows error free. I ran several tests to confirm the stability of the processor at this alarmingly high operating speed and much to my surprise found the system to be perfectly stable at this frequency.

Next I tried a 138Mhz front side bus, and again to my amazement the system posted 830Mhz and loaded windows error free. With stress testing however I found the system to be unstable in 3d operations with this FSB setting. I am not sure if this is a limitation of the processor, the video card, the memory, or the motherboard. I am assuming that it is the processor since I have test the Geforce at 100Mhz 1:1 setting and the card worked flawlessly. I have also been told that the Aopen Pro II works well at frequencies above 133 Mhz, but I am personally unable to confirm/deny these accounts. The bottom line is even with voltage tweaks the system was unstable at 830Mhz and above.

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