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To: stribe30 who wrote (122453)	8/19/2000 8:55:36 AM
From: crazyoldman	Read Replies (1) of 1583146

Hello Scott and Tejek, Re: You would be raving even more if you had some hardware techie geek hiding inside that investor persona of yours and decided to overclock the Duron :) 600 Durons from all accounts are fairly easy to get to 800, and some of the Overclock sites have managed to get them to 900-950 MHZ.. not bad for a retail price of around 70$ US. I'm not a "real" overclocker myself but your comments interested me. Back in mid to late July, 2000 I ordered 30 MSI K7T Pros with 700 MHz Tbirds. The MSI supports only FSB overclocking (no multiplier changes) so using the first one I built I decided to see how far the FSB could be pushed. It would boot and run stable at 850 (840???)MHz simply by increasing the FSB to 120 and without having to increase the voltages any. I have not gotten any of the successive MSI's to go beyond 115 on the FSB. The MSI boards were shipped with the processor and heatsink/fan already installed. The heatsink/fan spring clip requires lots of force to release, more force than I wish to use (don't want to crack anything underneath) so I haven't looked at any of the processors on the MSI boards. I got ahold of an ASUS A7V (with multiplier dip switches) a couple of weeks ago and ordered a TBird 700. The TBird that was delivered came from Austin (green tint) and was unlocked. I haven't spent a lot of time "foolin" with it but can't get it to boot beyond 825MHz but it runs solid at that speed. ASUS seems to use actual voltages that are higher than the selected voltage (example: select 1.7V and you get 1.79V on the processor). The ASUS Probe utility reports at runtime that I'm at 1.79V on the processor and I don't really want to go much beyond that. When I last worked with this machine I remember thinking that my next step would be to use more conservative memory settings but have never gotten back to doing that yet. The processor on the A7V runs hotter than those of the MSI's, around 110-112 degrees F while the MSI's run around 98-100 degrees F., higher voltages on the A7V are part of the reason, and crappy heatsink is the other I think. Maybe I should order a bunch of those $70 Durons 600's for the A7V and use them like a fuse. If I blow one of them just stick another one in and go! I believe a lot of this very thing goes on in the real world, maybe that's why Jerry is confident of selling 3.6 million processors this quarter and 7.2 million in the next. <hee hee> Kindest regards, CrazyMan

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