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To: Gary Kao who wrote (163191)	3/29/2002 4:39:53 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Gary, Re: "May I ask you and elmer how you are overclocking...via jumpers on the motherboard or strictly at the BIOS level?" The Gigabyte motherboard comes with a utility that you can use to overclock within Windows. You don't even need to reboot - it overclocks on the fly. However, the down side to the utility is that you can only adjust the FSB multiplier. No voltage controls, no memory or PCI/AGP dividers, and no thermal or voltage indicators. In the BIOS, you have all these things, so I primarily work within there. It was fun getting to 2.4GHz within Windows, but I didn't get to do much before the benchmark utilities that I was using started to crash. I did manage to yank a screen shot of the utility showing that I reached 2.4GHz, but running another benchmark called SiSoft Sandra caused Windows error messages to start popping up. I am now running at 2.16GHz and 1.6V. This is completely stable so far, but I was hoping for a little faster. Still, I am 360MHz and 100mV over the specifications, and everything seems to work fine. My temperatures are very close to normal ranges, too. When I was at 2.27GHz and 1.65V, I reached 38C degrees CPU temperatures in idle mode, and 42C degrees when running at 100% CPU usage, but I had one application that continued to crash at that speed. Even those temperatures, though, were within tolerable ranges. Overclocking is so easy these days, it's a wonder that more people don't do it. This is my first time really getting into it, so I admit that I started off a it naive as well. But it's easy to pick up, and you can be sure that the Pentium 4 has enough thermal protections to prevent you from frying the chip. You really can't lose. wbmw