1st you need to determine which one you have, then you need to get the latest BIOS. Even if you can overclock with that board, I wouldn't expect too much. VIA based are notorious for not having a PCI/AGP lock, so your FSB limit would be about 150MHz before the PCI/AGP go too far out of spec.
The Palomino isn't a great overclocking CPU & it tends to run hot due to it's high default voltage (1.75v). You can safely increase the voltage to 1.85v if necessary, provided you have adequate cooling. You'd also need PC2700 RAM (DDR333). At best, you're probably looking at 1.725GHz (11.5 x 150MHz). If you have PC2100 (DDR266), your results will be lower.
hello again and thank you for your time, i was using an emachines..but it died and i did some work for a friend and he gave me a pc with amd athlon xp 1100 (1.10ghz) and it has the asus a7n8x-x and a geforce fx 5200 graphics card. it wasnt that great, so i took the processor off my emachines amd athlon xp 1800+ ( which this pc had a l7vmm rev:1.0 motherboard (dont know anything about this mb or if its any better than the asus i have )and a geforce mx 4400 card) anyway i put the 1800+ processor on my new pc and it read correct when it loaded and read 1533mhz( i googled but didnt find any info if i needed drivers or anything else to download with the cpu swap, and it runs fine so i left alone) i have an entire list of info, but uncertian to what exactly you need to know and i dont want to bother you with listing everything if its not needed. ive been playin with it, doing different procedure's ive read online, but you seem to know the most or the best way to adjust my set-up..even tho i was told to do some other or oppisite things than you have said...but after the headaches..im strictly going by your expertise now.(pat yourself on the back for knowing your shiat..lol) if i didnt have a 1148.12 dollar monthly child support payment i'd make a donation(if thats whats its still called) now then, here's some info i have about my pc now.: asustek inc pc asus a7n8x-x motherboard rev 2.xx 1006 family-6 model-6 stepping-2 ext.family-7 ext.model-6 revision a5 clock core spd 1681.0mhz multi-11.5 bus spd 146.2mhz rated fsb 292.3 mhz L1 data 64byts L1 inst. 64byts Level2 256 bytes. chipset nforce2 400 rev.C1 southbridge nforce mcp (cupid read it this way?) (NORTHBRIDGE NFORCE2 IGP/SPP) SOUTHBRIDGE NFORCE2 MCP/-T) ASB100 8x transfer rate max-8x side band enabled. memory-DDR chanels-dual 1024bytes dram freq. 146.2 mhz SPD-DDR FSB:DRAM 1.1 cas lat. 3.0 clks ras to cas-4 clks ras precharge 4 clks cycle time-8 clks slot 1-512 pc3200(200mhz)133/166/200 slot 2-256 pc3200(200mhz) 200 slot 3-256 pc2700(166mhz) 133/166 cpu votage is at 1.775v i raised the vcore to next setting up as well. i have a 320gb hd(if that matters or not) this is the info from my bios now(might change after talkin to you..lol) from info i got off the net and playin around, hopefully if there is more i can do.you could help! here we go.: i tried to do the bios mod 1010 but when pc boots still says 1006(dont know if its suppose to change since it is a mod) CPU EXT. FREQ. 146mhz CPU freq. multiplier setting(menu) system performance (user defined) cpu interface (aggressive) memory frq.(auto) resulting freq. (auto)(cant change it) memory timmings (user defined) sdram active precharge 8 sdram ras to cas delay 4 sdram ras precharge 4 sdram cas latency 3T fsb spred spectrum (disabled) (cant change it) agp spread spectrum (disabled) (cant change it) cpu vcore setting-(menu) cpu vcore-1,775v graphics aperture size (128mb) (was on 64mb, i changed it, dont remember why)? agp frq. (auto) system bios cachable(disabled) DDR refference voltage(2.7v)? agp 8x support(enabled) agp VDDQ voltage(1.5v) agp fast write(enabled) ....thats what info i have sorry again if its too long or not enough, also when pc boots or posts it says "athlon xp 1800+ memory 146,single channel mode(this is highlighted bright white lettering) it has 5 turbo led fans installed, and seems to run around 44 to 46 c after about 2 hours or so..havent checked longer time span well heres my info, and im just trying to get the most out of my pc, until i can afford to buy another or parts for this one, might be when my kids are grown tho..lol thanks, chace
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