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Pentium 933 Overclock
Name: zack Date: October 7, 2008 at 12:43:14 Pacific OS: XP PRO SP3 CPU/Ram: 933/512MB Product: Pentium 2/Coppermine
Comment:
I have a pentium 3 933MHZ Coppermine cpu i want to overclock. The motherboard i have is ASUS CUSL2. I only have a stock heatsink/fan But i have two exhaust fans. How far could i overclock with this setup? THANKS
Name: jackbomb Date: October 7, 2008 at 21:32:15 Pacific
Reply:
Increase the system bus speed to 150MHz.
150x7=1.05GHz
Many systems will handle 150MHz fine. If you're lucky, it may go even higher. My kids' P3 rig is running glitch-free at 158MHz FSB. However, 150MHz is considered to be a safe maximum bus speed for 133MHz FSB P3 systems; this will run the PCI bus at 37.5MHz and the AGP bus at 75MHz.
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