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To: Yougang Xiao who wrote (46584)	1/18/1999 8:29:00 PM
From: Petz	Respond to of 1573377

Problems in Celery Overclocking Land anandtech.com The Abit BH6, widely used because it is one of the few BX motherboards on which overclocking is possible suffers from the following problems: a)incompatible and inconsistent results with many SDRAM modules rated PC100 (Many times this week I had boards that just wouldn't stabilize with a particular stick. I'd switch sticks, of the same flavor, and all would be well. Then, Then, moving on to the next combo, I'd try the previously failed memory module and it would work perfectly! ) b)the CPU voltage sometimes needed to be jacked up when using two SDRAM sticks. (Imagine if someone wanted to use three.) c)apparently dead motherboards would work if you substituted another Celeron CPU. d)with OEM Celerons (the vast majority of output, and the only ones priced near parity with K6-2's) the voltage had to be *jacked up* 70% of the time to allow overclocking. Sounds like if you want to build a Celeron system which is as fast as the K6-2-400, you'd better plan on buying two of everything. Sounds like Intel might have Abit in their back pocket, but they had better start watching a little more closely. (Abit is one of the very few Mobo makers that doesn't sell K6-2-compatible 100 MHz motherboards.) Petz