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To: GGL who wrote (44049)	12/26/1998 5:18:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 1572769

Gilbert, If you refer to the assorted overclockers WWW sites you will be able to incrementally go faster and faster on certain motherboards. Some have it with jumpers on the board, some are in the bios and some motherboards at the loe end cannot be overclocked as they are an older board going at full speed. Often the Sears bargains are older stuff. If it is a 350 Max motherboard and it has a 350 chip and you cannot change the motherboard as it is not an asus or other standard motherboard and you are then trapped at 350 Mhz max. You get a far better deal from those small stores, but make sure you get one of the top rated motherboards from Tomshardware.com that has 450 Mhz overclock capability in small steps. By adjusting the bus speed and the CPU multiple and the CPU voltage you can increase even the celeron 333A to 450-500 Mhz, as you can with the AMD parts. I suggest you wait 2-3 weeks for the new AMD chips to hit the street and use the time to read all about this overclocking. As an EE you are capable of it. make sure you get a super cooler too. Bill