Duron Overclocking

[nova]

I've got a duron 600. I'm thinking overclocking it. Does the pencil trick work and if so how easy is it? If not whats a better way? Also how easy is it to break the bridges and what is the best way. I've read Tom's hardware article and he never gives a definate answer only possibilities. Also what could I realistically get my cpu up to with a clip-on golden orb(already have it so don't mention alphas or any others please)? I've been a long time overclocker since I overclocked a 486 25 to 80 but never had to deal with locked multiplyers or hardware modification.

[sicko]

Just did the pencil trick myself for the first time earlier today. I used a normal pencil instead of a mechanical one (really cause I couldn't find a mechanical one). I wanted to use a mechanical pencil because the lead is thinner and I figured it would be easy to connect the small bridges, but I didn't have problems with a normal pencil. I just sharppened it to a VERY fine point and "went to town" connecting the bridges. It wasn't hard at all, I was all worried about having a spot of lead connect two bridges but I managed to avoid doing that pretty easily, and without breaking any bridges (to my knowledge). Unfortunilty FedEx's tracking said my mobo would be here today, wrong. So I wont get to run the CPU it until tomorrow or the day after. As for OC'ing room I've heard that on average the Duron can get up to a 300MHz boost while the T-bird on average can go 200MHz more...notice the words "on average" some people will get more, some will get less. I've also heard there's an upper limit in the ballpark of 1GHz, after that it loses all stability. However, since I have yet to OC my T-bird I can't know for sure. So (once again) please don't quote me on this. Besides the pencil trick to only other OC'ing I've been hearing about for it is increasing the FSB, not as much of a boost as OC'ing the CPU's speed but still a boost

[llreye]

Should be ~7$ at an auto store. I've not tried it, my TB has intact bridges. http://www.permatexbrands.com/produc...&item_no=15067

Look at the overclockers.com database and forum for examples. I think some of the members have tried it, maybe w/ some other cheap conductor though.

-MKC

[10cdr]

The Pencil worked great on my Duron 600. I went to 850 no problem at all. As far as breaking the bridges you can use a razor blade. Just dont press too hard

[nova]

Thanks people. I'm going to try it this weekend and see what happens. I'll probably try for 800 or maybe 850.

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[anubis44]

Originally posted by 10cdr:
The Pencil worked great on my Duron 600. I went to 850 no problem at all. As far as breaking the bridges you can use a razor blade. Just dont press too hard

Question: Why would you BREAK the bridges on the Duron? If they're already intact, you can simply change the multiplier and FSB in the bios. Do you have a motherboard that doesn't support multiplier and FSB changes?

[anubis44]

Originally posted by 10cdr:
The Pencil worked great on my Duron 600. I went to 850 no problem at all. As far as breaking the bridges you can use a razor blade. Just dont press too hard

P.S. Those bridges are only cut by AMD at the factory. If your chip came with them intact, you're one of the lucky ones!! Many people would kill to get your chip!

[nova]

Yeah sorry about that, when I purchased I wasn't thinkingabout overclocking and bought the FIC AZ-11 because everthing I read said it was stable and it wasn't that expensive. So far I have tried to overclock my cpu from 600 to 800. I'm having some problems though. I have my voltage set at 1.65 and cant even get the machine to post. I don't know if I screwed the cpu up or if I simply havn't broken one of the FID L6 bridges and its trying to run at 1200. I ground on it for about 2 hours with the help of one of my friends. Could it be possible that the razor blade left behind metal deposits that are making contact also? As always I'm grateful for any help.

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