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adequately cooled as an increased voltage results in an increased heat output. See "cooling review" for some tips. In addition, the colder the CPU temperature is maintained, the greater tolerance it will have for overclocking. Couple of simple rules I abide by when tweaking the voltage of a cpu: 1. Voltage = Heat - Higher voltage obviously means more heat. Higher voltage may allow you to overclock a CPU higher, but without proper cooling, the PC will freeze or have other problems farther down the road. 2. .3 Volts over Default; MAXIMUM! - It's a bit conservative for some users, but I rarely push a CPU higher than .3 volts over the default setting. Not only will it create more heat, but it could possibly damage the CPU. If you want to push your CPU higher, go for it. Just remember, I don't recommend it. Also, make sure you don't accidently jumper a slocket or a motherboard for something like two volts over the default value. This could result in instant death for your CPU. How to change the voltage What do you do if you get a board without voltage adjustments? Well, there are not many options. If you have an Intel Socket 370 CPU, you can mount your CPU in a socket to slot converter card. This only works if your CPU is a socketed chip and your motherboard is able to take a Slot 1 chip. Many of today's converters, such as the Asus Slocket II, Abit Slocket III and the MSI Slocket v2.x are compatible with both PPGA and FC-PGA Intel processors and include jumpers to adjust the voltage of your CPU. If you use an AMD Athlon with a Slot A interface, you can also use, what many people call a "Golden Fingers Device" (GFD). This is a device which fits onto a special connector on the top of the CPU and allows both multiplier and voltage adjustments to be made via a series of switches mounted on the GFD itself. These are fairly simple devices to use, however, remember that the plastic housing on the back of the CPU must be removed to expose the Golden Fingers attachment. Also keep in mind that a GFD needs to be powered and most have a plug for a standard 4-pin molex connector (hard drive power plug). More extreme measures can be taken to change the voltage where it would not ordinarily be supported, such as physically modifying the CPU, however those are beyond the scope of this article. Sockets and cpu softMenu II or III voltage If you're using a slocket (for an FC-PGA based Celeron II), there are a couple tricks you can do with the voltage and FSB settings to achieve better performance and stability. If you want to set the voltage to what is on the slocket, set the SoftMenu settings to use Auto or Default for voltage. This allows you to use 1.8 volts or higher on the slocket itself, regardless of what the BIOS supports. This is especially useful on older Abit motherboards where the voltage can only be set up to 1.7 volts for the Celermine CPUs. For stability at 100 MHz or higher, set the slocket to 100 MHz FSB, even if you're planning on setting it differently within the BIOS setup. This seems to make the CPU more stable, at higher speeds (at least, on the Abit Slocket !!! it does). BUMPING UP THE CLOCK SPEED/USING SOFTFSB Now that you've nailed the problems, tweaked the voltage, and dealt with the heat, you probably want to overclock your CPU a bit higher. Instead of using the typical jumpers or the BIOS' CPU clock speed software, consider SoftFSB. SoftFSB is a nifty little program that allows you to change the clock speed of your CPU (on-the-fly) from within <strong>Windows</strong>. This has obvious benefits... and it can often times lead to higher clock speeds than you thought possible before. When you decide to use SoftFSB to overclock your computer, take the following precautions: - Save before attempting anything - Progressively overclock system - go up one speed step at a time to make sure you don't damage the processor. - Run the stability tests to make sure the overclock was completely successful. - Want to run your 66 Celeron etc at 100 mhz - have a look at www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/98q2/980514/index.html Check to see if your motherboard is supported before you start playing around with this program, as it can alter some pretty serious stuff. Once you're sure it supports your system, run the program and choose your motherboard from the drop-down list. Hit "Get FSB". Now it should show all the supported FSB speeds. Change the speed of the FSB to the desired clock. Click "Set FSB" and the new speed should be set. You should probably test stability before deciding on a good speed. Remember: On most new CPUs, you can't change the multiplier. All overclocking must be done in the FSB (front side bus). To test to see if you've hit the limits of your L2 cache, try disabling the L2 cache in the BIOS setup and setting the clock speed to something that was previously unstable. If the option works and the CPU is stable at the new speed, there is a good chance that your L2 cache is too hot or it's not able to reach the speed you're striving to hit. This is often the limitation on older Pentium II systems. Good clock speed and stability There's no doubt that a higher clock speed is better than a lower clock speed. But you must not sacrifice stability to reach that clock speed, or the PC will become basically useless. There are various ways to test the stability of a system at a given clock speed, but in my opinion, the best method is to use the CPU Stability Test. This program simply rules for testing stability. Crank the priority all the way up and run this program overnight. If the system crashes, you've got a problem. Recommended settings There are no unique best settings for every system, however I'll try to give you a basic guideline for overclocking. I'll cover settings for motherboards with the following range of bus speeds: 100, 112, 124, 133 MHz. If your Motherboard doesn't support the higher bus speeds, or has some other, not listed here setting, you can still try the rest, get a calculator and figure out the possible combinations yourself remember it's Multiplier x FSB = Internal CPU speed. WARNING: Please keep in mind that the more aggressive settings can damage your CPU over time, increase system instability and don't work on all motherboards/CPUs. Just the fact that the settings appear in this table doesn't mean they are safe for your system and devices, use them at your own risk. Multiplier Common CPU/FSB Speeds 100Mhz 112Mhz 124Mhz 133Mhz 3.0x 300Mhz 336Mhz 372Mhz 399Mhz 3.5x 350Mhz 392Mhz 434Mhz 465Mhz 4.0x 400Mhz 448Mhz 496Mhz 532Mhz 4.5x 450Mhz 504Mhz 558Mhz 598Mhz
5.0x 500Mhz 560Mhz 620Mhz 665Mhz 5.5x 550Mhz 616Mhz 682Mhz 731Mhz 6.0x 600Mhz 672Mhz 744Mhz 798Mhz 6.5x 650Mhz 728Mhz 806Mhz 865Mhz 7.0x 700Mhz 784Mhz 868Mhz 931Mhz 7.5x 750Mhz 840Mhz 930Mhz 997Mhz 8.0x 800Mhz 896Mhz 992Mhz 1.06Ghz 8.5x 850Mhz 952Mhz 1.05Ghz 1.13Ghz 9.0x 900Mhz 1.008Ghz 1.11Ghz 1.19Ghz 9.5x 950Mhz 1.06Ghz 1.17Ghz 1.26Ghz 10.0x 1Ghz 1.12Ghz 1.24Ghz 1.33Ghz 10.5x 1.05Ghz 1.17Ghz 1.30Ghz 1.39Ghz 11.0x 1.10Ghz 1.23Ghz 1.36Ghz 1.46Ghz COOLING is the MOST important factor in successful overclocking, running a stable system and keeping your CPU in good shape. If your overclocked CPU operates at a higher than specs temperature, it will shorten its life and electro migration will eventually occur. Other side effects of overheating can be random crashes and unstable system. Generally, today's processors are designed to work between 25 and 100 degrees Celsius ( 77 to 212 Fahrenheit ) and anything outside the temperature range would result in more unstable system and possible damaging of the CPU. Keep this in mind, cooler is better, try to cool your CPU as much as you can, put a big fat heatsink on it with a big fan to help. Other, somewhat more extreme cooling options are using a Peltier (drains a lot of power, active cooling solution), or water cooling kit. Just remember the better cooling solution you choose, the better chances for successful overclocking you have. There are many types of cooling systems out there for your CPU. They are usually purchased in the form of Heatsink/Fan combos. There are combos for Socket A platforms, FCPGA platforms and the regular SECC1 and SECC2 Slot 1 and Slot 2 platforms. They range in types of huge golden orbs to big square copper or aluminum heatsinks and fans. One of the most publicized issues with overclocking is the heat. Increasing the clock speed of a CPU will just about always result in more heat. And increasing the voltage does the same... so increasing the clock speed and voltage can lead to insane heat levels, far beyond what the CPU is normally used to dealing with. But that shouldn't be too much of an issue for mild overclocking, since generally, CPUs run at far below their maximum stable temperature. In general, a CPU should be relatively stable so long as the temperature is below 115ºF. Anything over that could lead to instability on certain CPUs. Some systems can be fine way up to 140 or even 160ºF, but for the most part, try to keep the CPU below 115ºF. Cool room = cool pc technique If you live in a house with air conditioning that's constantly being run or your room temperature is far lower than your system's temperature, you can probably rid most of your heat problems by removing the side panels to your case. If your room is 70ºF, the air outside your case is probably much cooler than the air inside your case. So remove the panels and you can probably drop the temperature signficantly. Also, try to keep the PC's area well ventilated. No matter how good your CPU fan, or fans are, the air they blow onto your CPU can only be as cold as the air in your case. This might sound obvious, but the heat dissipation from your cooler can be severely disrupted by rising temperatures inside your case. The ATX specification states that air must be drawn into the case, circulated and then expelled. Although fine in principle, in reality the single fan solutions to be found in most cases means that the hot air is not exhausted properly and the case temperature continues to rise. You can reduce your case temperature considerably by simply reversing the direction that your fan works in. In my case I disassembled my power supply, unscrewed the fan,reversed the direction so that the fan "pointed" outwards, and reassembled. In this way the hot air is drawn out of the case by the PSU fan, to be replace by cooler air. You can help this process by installing an extra fan to the front or rear of the case, drawing cool air in. It is well worth installing a secondary fan to draw air in. Positioned near the bottom of the case this will get a nice air rotation going, and will avoid "hot spots" from building up in the corners! Fans stripped from old PSU's are particularly useful for this purpose. Expel hot air at the top ------>
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