P3 600E Does 900 Easy

[Plmr]

I got mine at a computer show ,It seems about half the dealers had them ..All were OEM not boxed no fan .They were around 250 -275 $ US.
Btw I backed that rascle down to 800 to "BURN IT IN" for a week at 2.75 volts then Ill try it again at 900..It ran 3dmark 2000 at 882 but was hard to shut down and startup (pissed off my wife, bless her heart"

Matt

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Abit BF6, P3 600E AT 900, G400 32meg Dh ,Promise fasttrack striping 2 Quantum ka 18gig's + 2 10gig IBM's ,Sb-live platinum ,Cambridge Fps2000 speakers ,Onstream 30gig tape ,Sony cdrw ,toshiba dvd, Lotsa fans,cables ,noise....

[cpld005]

I was wondering why I couldn't get my PIII 650E 806MHZ, maybe i'll try upping the power to it a bit. I wouldn't think 900MHZ would be too difficult for this processor.

[mkaresh]

2.75 volts should burn it in real well, real fast. 1.75 perhaps? hehe

I'd try boosting the 3.3 first since the AGP is the bottleneck. I'm tempted to force my card to 1x to try 150fsb in 3d, but I've probably already tempted fate enough--two late nights getting the system running again already. (Lesson learned: when it won't boot after midnight, go to bed, you'll figure it out first thing the next mornning.)

[mkaresh]

I just sent back a "bad" DIMM. I didn't think of trying to boost the CPU voltage to get it to be more stable. But a few people have suggested this. Why would this work? What is the connection between CPU voltage and RAM or G400 stability? (I'm assuming the CPU is not the root cause, because in my case at least my original stick was rock solid at the speeds concerned.)

[paulcs]

Upping the CPU voltage sometimes helps stabilize your CPU, not your RAM or your AGP card.

This is a common technique to stabilize CPU's that need a little push. It is not without risk, and should be approached with caution. However, both Intel and AMD have done this to get their CPU's stable as they approach 1 GHz.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

[Plmr]

Um yea I guess 2.75 woulda blowed up real good :-) Upping the ram volts seemed to lock it up ,Thats new to me ,But I upped the cpu fsb and ram at the same time..Not a good experiment I should think ..Ill try again after burn in..Btw my bios shows the missing ram timing setting from that other OC string ...

Matt

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Abit BF6, P3 600E AT 900, G400 32meg Dh ,Promise fasttrack striping 2 Quantum ka 18gig's + 2 10gig IBM's ,Sb-live platinum ,Cambridge Fps2000 speakers ,Onstream 30gig tape ,Sony cdrw ,toshiba dvd, Lotsa fans,cables ,noise....