How could i OVerclock a Pentium 3 450Mhz?

Excelsior · Jul 13, 2002, 08:52 AM

ok how could i overclock it, i know there is a tool called soft (something) it is a Pentium 3 450Mhz. What kind of program can detect what motherboard i have so i can use the soft program thingy

Mize · Jul 13, 2002, 10:48 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Excelsior
ok how could i overclock it, i know there is a tool called soft (something) it is a Pentium 3 450Mhz. What kind of program can detect what motherboard i have so i can use the soft program thingy

SoftFSB is the program you're referring to - never used it myself. Do you have the ability to change any settings in your BIOS? The most common way to overclock a P3 is to increase the FSB via the BIOS. Most of the P3s I overclocked could handle a 10 MHz FSB increase. Note that you probably have a 100 MHz FSB (could be 133 MHz) so if you find this in your BIOS step it up slowly and check your temperatures to make sure you aren't going to fry anything. If you have a noname motherboard you may not be able to overclock and may not have any temperature sensing hardware (in this case it'd be worth shelling out $50 or so for an ABIT BE6-II (rev 1.2) motherboard.

Mize

~~Sourcer_2002~~ · Jul 13, 2002, 10:55 AM

Ive used thid a little had no pronlems intill i reaised my FSB to high

but it works good and it dosent nag that much about registering and has some other neat feartures like fan and temp controls.

Excelsior · Jul 13, 2002, 11:52 AM

well, i went into the BIOS settings and it has tempature controls but no setting to change my FSB. How could i find out motherboard i have?

~~Sourcer_2002~~ · Jul 13, 2002, 11:55 AM

Well you could in the documents you got with it! Who bulit the system if it's a brand name what is it and what model number? At the last restort crack the case open and look on the MoBo to see the vendor!

Yeti · Jul 14, 2002, 11:56 AM

Quote:

100 MHz FSB (could be 133 MHz)

No its a 450... no chance of 133. Also if its a 450 PIII its a katmai core... that means that the cache is running at half speed of the processor and that the processor is quite throughly locked.

As for identifying the name/brand of the motherboard... well quite frankly i have found that the motherboards used by Gateway (for intance) at the time came from a company called Jabill. Now if this company exists and if it publishes its mobo specs i'm not sure. But i certainly as hell haven't been able to find anything.

I have tried using softFSB on the afor mentioned Gateway PIII 500 Katmai, with no result. I've tried using practically all the available clockchip generators... and it's had 0 effect on the CPU FSB/Speed.

IMHO if you can't find a frequency adjustment in the BIOS (FSB Adjustment that is)... you will not be able to OC your CPU. (Pessimistic? Yes...SRY)

Oh, and as i've mentioned the Katmai cores have external cache (512k). This effectively limits how far the CPU will overclock. (e.g. not very much oc'ing potential)

~~Sourcer_2002~~ · Jul 17, 2002, 12:29 PM

I dont have any option in my bios to o/c or change my fsb and i have overclocked it with a program calle CPU Cool. Rasied my FSB to 100Mhz

Yeti · Jul 17, 2002, 12:50 PM

450 = 4.5x100 ... i'm not sure how you can "overclock" the cpu to something it is already at

~~Sourcer_2002~~ · Jul 17, 2002, 12:56 PM

Im talkin about on one of my older systems that ran at 66Mhz FSB

Yeti · Jul 17, 2002, 01:04 PM

IC... NM I thought we were still talking about the 450 in question.

Jul 13, 2002, 08:52 AM	#1
Excelsior DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 4 Rep Power: 0	How could i OVerclock a Pentium 3 450Mhz? ok how could i overclock it, i know there is a tool called soft (something) it is a Pentium 3 450Mhz. What kind of program can detect what motherboard i have so i can use the soft program thingy

Jul 13, 2002, 10:55 AM	#3
~~Sourcer_2002~~ BANNED Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Indiana , USA Posts: 2,677 Rep Power: 0	Try this Ive used thid a little had no pronlems intill i reaised my FSB to high but it works good and it dosent nag that much about registering and has some other neat feartures like fan and temp controls.

Jul 17, 2002, 12:29 PM	#7
~~Sourcer_2002~~ BANNED Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Indiana , USA Posts: 2,677 Rep Power: 0	WTF I dont have any option in my bios to o/c or change my fsb and i have overclocked it with a program calle CPU Cool. Rasied my FSB to 100Mhz

Jul 17, 2002, 12:50 PM	#8
Yeti DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 662 Rep Power: 0	450 = 4.5x100 ... i'm not sure how you can "overclock" the cpu to something it is already at __________________ --Oh lord not again

Jul 17, 2002, 12:56 PM	#9
~~Sourcer_2002~~ BANNED Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Indiana , USA Posts: 2,677 Rep Power: 0	RE: Im talkin about on one of my older systems that ran at 66Mhz FSB

Jul 13, 2002, 11:52 AM	Thread Starter #4
Excelsior DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 4 Rep Power: 0	well, i went into the BIOS settings and it has tempature controls but no setting to change my FSB. How could i find out motherboard i have?

Jul 13, 2002, 11:55 AM	#5
~~Sourcer_2002~~ BANNED Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Indiana , USA Posts: 2,677 Rep Power: 0	Well you could in the documents you got with it! Who bulit the system if it's a brand name what is it and what model number? At the last restort crack the case open and look on the MoBo to see the vendor!

Jul 17, 2002, 01:04 PM	#10
Yeti DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 662 Rep Power: 0	IC... NM I thought we were still talking about the 450 in question. __________________ --Oh lord not again