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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Maxwell who wrote (42038)	11/21/1998 1:26:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572763

TT, Let me get this straight--you're trying to do all your K6-2 overclocking on a non-Super 7 board? If you have a Super 7 board, you should at least be able to run a 333 at 350. Maybe you might have to bump the voltage up a smidgen, but even that is unlikely. I think you're failing to achieve your overclocking goals because you're using an old board/chipset that doesn't officially support any bus speeds over 83 MHz. You're probably using non-PC-100 SDRAM. You're probably not tweaking your voltage because your board doesn't support it, and your bios settings are probably wrong (try disabling read around write and wrte cache pipeline, for example, and see what this gets you). As Maxwell said, you're basing your conclusion that AMD has no headroom in their process on one datapoint. My K6-2 350 overclocks to 400 at 3.3 volts, and runs nice and stable, even if I'm doing something compute-intensive like running a Quake2 demo at 1600x1200. Finally, I'd suggest not buying your parts at a swap meet if you want to try to push their performance envelopes. Kevin