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Re: Overclocking AMD K6 200

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From: Pat Conant
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 00:00
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if you overclock your processor to a point that your bios is not
configured for thatn the bios message will be erroneous benchmark your
system to find out what speed you are running at.

On 24 Feb 1998, coyote wrote:

> Did you have any success leaving the bus at 66MHz and just changing the
> multiplier?
> 
>  I've tried overclocking my K6 233 on a Soyo 5ED but I can't increase the
> bus speed because I also have an AGP graphics card. For 233Mhz it uses a
> 3.5 multiplier but when I increase it (the board can go to 5 times
> multiplication) the chip reverts to anything from 100 to 200Mhz.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Is the bios reading the CPU type from the processor and overriding my speed
> setting?
> 
> COYOTE
> 
> Willy D <willy.d@planetinternet.be> wrote in article
> <6cqiik$obe$1@antwerpen.planetinternet.be>...
> > I will overclock my CPU, AMD K6-200 to 225 MHz (3x75) or 249 MHz (3x83).
> > Question is that the cooling is strong enough. I have already the
> stronger
> > heatsink, applyed with the AMD, original.
> > Have I to do more and are there more special coolers on the market ?
> > 
> > My system: ASUS TX97-E , 64 MB SDRAM , Diamond Stealth 3D 2400 Pro,
> Seagate
> > and Quantum Fireball HD's.
> > 
> > Any suggestions ?
> > 
> > Willy Diels
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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From: Pat Conant <pat@cottagesoft.com>
Subject: Re: Overclocking AMD K6 200
Date: 1998/02/25
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