I have a DELL deskop,733Mhz,133Mhz FSB,20GB
drive,i815 chip.I have upgraded with a
Hercules Prophet II GTS,32MB & Mushkin
PC133 REV2 CAS2 memory.How high can I safely tweak the Prophet(215/375?).Also,can I
safely overclock the FSB to at least 150Mhz?,Thanks,Tom
Back down to cas3, and shoot.... but don't expect to much, 150Mhz FSB need's massive cooling and/or lots of luck!
As for the Herc try small incresements and when problems occur, back a step.
Start with getting the memory clock up then go for the GPU.
Read up on OC'ing first, doh.
It's not a bad way to start!
I don't know about Dell's but some prebuilt computers cpus can't be overclocked.
Shawn
Originally posted by tomsonneborn@dellnet.com: I have a DELL deskop,733Mhz,133Mhz FSB,20GB
drive,i815 chip.I have upgraded with a
Hercules Prophet II GTS,32MB & Mushkin
PC133 REV2 CAS2 memory.How high can I safely tweak the Prophet(215/375?).Also,can I
safely overclock the FSB to at least 150Mhz?,Thanks,Tom
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Not sure how you'll up the FSB at all in that DELL, but as for the GTS - keep speeding up the RAM until you see visual artifacts, then back off a bit. OCing the Core hasn't been shown to do much, and isn't worth burning out the GPU. On the otherhand, OCing RAM is frequency-limited, so mounting heatsinks, etc., won't get you much more.
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for an OEM like DELL OC'ing usually doesn't meet with a lot of success usually do to onboard components, particularly sound cards. That aside making a 17 Mhz jump from the intended max FSB is a big jump, let alone in an OEM machine. I would take the smallest steps possible per your systemboard bios, and watch your voltage, just because a system boots at a higher clock speed and then hangs doesn't mean upping the voltage is the answer, per my experience that is the most common way to burn up a cpu. If my math is right you will also have to adjust the PCI bus ratio to 1/5 or 1/6 which ever option you have availible....one of you math wizes out there back me up on that? As far as the prophet goes play with the RAM use powerstrip, don't screw with OC'ing the GPU, more times than not it will run for a while and won't go out/lock/hang until it gets super hot, which hense may already do damage, not to mention raise the temp in your case over all which will be bad for that overclocked cpu.
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