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Me again, some questions. (Overclocking related)
Please don’t laugh at me or anything like that, I’m very new to overclocking.
My setup is as follows.
Asus P3B-F Mobo with 1 ISA slot 6 PCI slots and ofcourse 1 AGP slot.
I have a crappy 16-bit ESS Sound Card in the ISA slot and nothing in the 6 PCI slots
32MB G400 MAX
P-3 500
64MB PC-100 RAM
Aswell as a lot of other crap which I’m pretty sure has nothing to do with overclocking.
My FSB was at 100, I read somewhere you could reasonably safely up that to 112, so I did, and I booted up the computer, not changing ANYTHING else, I didn’t have any extra cooling and it booted up perfectly, nothing was abnormal, I checked my Intel Frequency ID and it said it was running at 560Mhz, which I thought was cool in itself. At this point I got a room fan, not the most elegant cooling system but I think it would work (one of my questions is, would it work??) and I pointed it diagonally into the case, hoping it would blow air in then air would leave through the diagonal created, I had both sides of my Mid-Tower off., now I didn’t expect much of a performance boost, so I opened up UT(405B), running it at 1024*768*32 with Medium/Medium I ended up with much higher FPS, an average of 56 on Diamond Sword which I used to get about 29 on, now I’m guessing that these were distorted figures, either way the game did run a lot smoother, when I opened up Dreary I had an average of something in the 70s so I knew they were distorted figures, but again it looked like it was performing much much better, this has to be too good to be true, am I hurting anything by upping the FSB this high, do I need to change something so that the AGP slot isn’t running so fast or anything, could I hurt the G400? And if so does anyone know how to change the settings for the AGP slot, it’s a jumperfree BIOS, which makes things very easy, but I still need some help.
Andrew
My setup is as follows.
Asus P3B-F Mobo with 1 ISA slot 6 PCI slots and ofcourse 1 AGP slot.
I have a crappy 16-bit ESS Sound Card in the ISA slot and nothing in the 6 PCI slots
32MB G400 MAX
P-3 500
64MB PC-100 RAM
Aswell as a lot of other crap which I’m pretty sure has nothing to do with overclocking.
My FSB was at 100, I read somewhere you could reasonably safely up that to 112, so I did, and I booted up the computer, not changing ANYTHING else, I didn’t have any extra cooling and it booted up perfectly, nothing was abnormal, I checked my Intel Frequency ID and it said it was running at 560Mhz, which I thought was cool in itself. At this point I got a room fan, not the most elegant cooling system but I think it would work (one of my questions is, would it work??) and I pointed it diagonally into the case, hoping it would blow air in then air would leave through the diagonal created, I had both sides of my Mid-Tower off., now I didn’t expect much of a performance boost, so I opened up UT(405B), running it at 1024*768*32 with Medium/Medium I ended up with much higher FPS, an average of 56 on Diamond Sword which I used to get about 29 on, now I’m guessing that these were distorted figures, either way the game did run a lot smoother, when I opened up Dreary I had an average of something in the 70s so I knew they were distorted figures, but again it looked like it was performing much much better, this has to be too good to be true, am I hurting anything by upping the FSB this high, do I need to change something so that the AGP slot isn’t running so fast or anything, could I hurt the G400? And if so does anyone know how to change the settings for the AGP slot, it’s a jumperfree BIOS, which makes things very easy, but I still need some help.
Andrew
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