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To: Spots who wrote (2384)	9/9/1998 12:47:00 PM
From: Dave Hanson	Respond to of 14778

"I gather you're not overclocking the bus, just the processor, is that correct?" I'll let Dan answer for himself, tho I'm sure he's doing the same thing I am. In my case, nothing is overclocked but the CPU, which is just the way I likes it. :) The 4x clock-locked celeron, meant to run on a 66 mhz bus, is run on the 100 mhz bus / 33 mhz PCI bus that BX boards allow. Regards, Dave

To: Spots who wrote (2384)	9/10/1998 1:30:00 AM
From: Dan Spangenberg	Respond to of 14778

Yes you are correct, I am only overclocking the CPU. I am using a SOYO 6BA mainboard which has 5 pci slots and is jumperless. All settings are via the BIOS so it is really easy to change on a reboot. This motherboard auto senses whether a CPU is 66mhz or 100 so I had to "fake it out" by covering up pin B21. if anyone isn't familiar with this here's the url- tomshardware.com The BIOS setting offers a bus of 100, 103, and 112 but NT won't boot at anything but 100. The CPU ratios are from 2.0 - 5.5. During the day trading I have it set to 4.0 x 100 = 400mhz. It has never locked up at this speed. During other times, like right now, I have it set to 4.5 or 450 mhz. It runs great at 450 and it still hasn't locked up, but I want to monitor it for a while longer before I leave it set to 450 for good. I have a good fan and have never seen the temp go above 90 degrees, but then again the covers are always off my machines. :-)) Yes at $82 I don't really care if it burns out. I wouldn't buy another one for a spare though, I would just be down a short time to swap one from another machine or pick another one up. Anyway how many of you have actually burnt up a CPU? I never have and I support and build and play with these things for a living. Guess i've been lucky. All this tinkering sometimes reminds me of auto mechanics during my high school days, many years ago. Always playing to make a hotrod out of the family station wagon. <g> BTW, my 266 celeron was an OEM and it was a SL2TR with the supposedly better 1 stepping. Most oem's are the o stepping but many still overclock OK. Later Dan