Comment 10% OC isn't worth it... (Score 1) 248
...but what about 25%? 33%, 70%?!?
Many machines are really at the limits when you try to OC. But some will give you astonishing results without loss of reliability.
On the Sun 3/60 i usually spend a passive cooler for the 68020 and the 68881 FPU and replace the 9 chip SIMMs by faster 3 chip types.
The Vectras attracted me because their CPU was totally cold. Raising the FSB to 33MHz gave them a nice boost and the CPUs became only moderately warm.
The P-II-266 should be a Klamath, but has obviously a Coppermine core because it sucks only 2.0V. I wasn't very surprised when it ran perfectly at 4*100 MHz. With an Abit BH-6 mainboard i was finally able to run it at 4*112 MHz (and 2.1V core voltage).
Many machines are really at the limits when you try to OC. But some will give you astonishing results without loss of reliability.
My world is not Windows, i'm a Unix geek. If i OC too hard, my OS will notice and "panic" or SEGV or whatever. I do not tolerate three crashes per week. When i OC, then i go near the limit but not over it.
I have tried to OC a lot of machines in my life and most of them actually weren't worth the effort and i went back to standard settings. And no CPU was killed by my moderate tries.
But some times i hit a CPU that goes amazingly far beyond specs. Sometimes i can only guess why. Here are my top OC'd CPUs:
- Sun 3/60 (68020@20) runs fine @24 and @25 MHz
- HP Vectra 4/50 (486DX2@50) runs fine @66 MHz
- Pentium-II 266 runs fine @448 MHz
On the Sun 3/60 i usually spend a passive cooler for the 68020 and the 68881 FPU and replace the 9 chip SIMMs by faster 3 chip types.
The Vectras attracted me because their CPU was totally cold. Raising the FSB to 33MHz gave them a nice boost and the CPUs became only moderately warm.
The P-II-266 should be a Klamath, but has obviously a Coppermine core because it sucks only 2.0V. I wasn't very surprised when it ran perfectly at 4*100 MHz. With an Abit BH-6 mainboard i was finally able to run it at 4*112 MHz (and 2.1V core voltage).
Peter
