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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zeddie88 who wrote (10287)	2/5/2000 12:04:00 PM
From: mappingworld	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 14778

Can anyone suggest a good resource website for installing Corel Linux? (Besides Corel). Or has anyone else tried to install Linux while retaining Win98 on the same hard drive? Love some input. Let me know if you can and I'll ask the Q. Olga

To: Zeddie88 who wrote (10287)	2/5/2000 2:20:00 PM
From: wily	Respond to of 14778

Zeddie, The lower speed PIII's are easy to overclock because to some extent they are the same processor as the higher-rated ones, only Intel needs to sell some processors to a cheaper price bracket, so they just turn the clock multiplier down for those. This explanation is oversimplified somewhat: for any given batch of cpu's there is going to be a gradation of quality and the better ones will be given the higher multipliers. But for the purpose of your question, the PIII core maxes out pretty close to what the current highest speed being sold is. You're going to have better luck trying to overclock the lower speed ones since there is much more possible upside. I think that by buying a 667-rated cpu, you will have a better chance of overclocking to 750 or 800 than if you buy a 500 or 550-rated cpu. If you're wanting to go higher than 800, you would have to check the overclocking message boards and newsgroups to see what people are achieving. Since Intel clock-locks their cpu's the only way to overclock is by adjusting the frontside bus (FSB). Doing this also overclocks your PCI and AGP buses (which can screw up your peripheral cards and HDD's). But in the old days of the BX boards, there were ways of rectifying the PCI and AGP buses by means of a divider in the BIOS. This divider worked best if you overclocked by 50% because it was a 2/3 divider. I'm not sure how the new systems and chipsets are set to handle this issue -- again you have to check the newsgroups etc. Another alternative is to get a guaranteed overclockable cpu which I have done a few times. Seems like the obvious thing to me. Just make sure you're dealing with someone you trust. The Celeron 300A was the first super-overclockable cpu and probably the best. Now the PIII's are showing good promise but I don't think as much as the Celerons. Also sounds like the Athlons are coming close to the Celerons in percent-overclockability. They have the advantage of being able to adjust their clock (rather than having to do it with the FSB). I'm a little shy of them now because of their reputation for needing lots of power, no SMP support (yet) and finicky mobo's etc. I hacked up this explanation quite a bit but I'm hoping it helps more than it hurts. wily