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To: Sawdusty who wrote (2327)	2/11/1999 6:34:00 PM
From: The Devil Dog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4467

Here is few sites Dan tomshardware.com sysopt.com anandtech.com Three best places to start and there are additional links on the sites. Best Regards WB

To: Sawdusty who wrote (2327)	2/11/1999 7:10:00 PM
From: keith massey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4467

Topic - OVERCLOCKING Any idea where detailed info would be available? The best site on the net for overclocking information is Tom's Hardware at tomshardware.com. An incredible site to keep up on current hardware. What is involved in over clocking, just changing jumpers? If you have a BH6 motherboard (the most popular choice of overclockers) than you only need to change the BIOS. Other motherboards may require you to change jumpers and the BIOS. However there are many motherboards that should not be used for overclocking due to instability. See Tom's site for a review of most popular motherboards and their ability to overclock. Intel is in the process of trying to blocking overclocking of newer chips. For example, the new Celerons are supposed to be double overclock protected. Additional to that, Intel is obviously now or very soon putting a PLL-circuit on the chip, which makes sure that Celerons do only run as 66 MHz front side bus which will give you zero chance of overclocking anymore. However many of the older Celerons are still avaliable and overclock great. The Celeron 300A with 128L2 that I was talking about earlier is one of these chips. How likely is this to cause problems? I have been running three systems overclocked with no problems or obvious instabilities. 1. Celeron 266 (no cache) overclocked to 400 for 9 months.(BH6 motherboard) 2. Celeron 300 (128L2 cache) overclocked to 450 for 6 months (BH6 motherboard) 3. PII 266 overclocked to 300 for over 1 year (BX6 motherboard) Overclocking will reduce the life of your processor and "increase" the probability of system faults. However if the processor is not overclocked too much and kept cool you should have no problems if you have the right motherboard. Processors are made to last for 10 years. Overclocking my take a couple years off its life but who really cares - 8 years from now the chip will be useless anyways. I am by no means the expert on this topic. Several people that follow this site are far more computer geeky than me. They may also want to add their two cents to this topic. Best Regards KEITH