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Date:      Mon, 12 Jun 2000 18:20:25 -0500
From:      Drew Sanford <drew@planetwe.com>
To:        Joey Garcia <bsd_usr@yahoo.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Overclocking AMD K6-'s and FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <39457039.7C88B9D5@planetwe.com>
References:  <20000612230802.26867.qmail@web204.mail.yahoo.com>

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I wouldn't do this. A conservative setting for a 400 would be something
like 425-475, but these things are spaceheaters anyhow. You might get
away with a minimal overclock on the K6-2, but not anything big. My
advice is leave it be. All my overclocking attempts with a K6-2/400 have
failed miserably under just about any OS you can think of.

Joey Garcia wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> So out of the blue, I decided that I'll give
> overclocking a try.  Why?  I don't know.  Just
> because.
> 
> I know that Overclocking can kill a CPU because it can
> run hotter, but I'm sure with the proper precautions
> and some conservatism I can overclock my CPU safely.
> 
> I'm wondering if any of you has had experience with
> overclocking and AMD K6-2 400 safely.  I'm also
> interested to know about the stability of overclocked
> K6-2's with FreeBSD.  I heard that overclocked CPU's
> become less stable.
> 
> I have a FIC PA-2013 motherboard and I was looking at
> the 105 (bus speed) * 5.0 (multiplier) combination to
> get me to 525Mhz.  That's a 125Mhz differnce in CPU
> speed and a 5Mhz difference in bus speed (which might
> affect the PCI/AGP bus speeds as well).  I would
> assume that this is a conservative value.  Although,
> maybe someone more experienced would let me know if it
> would work or not.  Maybe I shouldn't even bother.
> 
> Opinions, Tips, Advice are welcome.
> 
> Joey
> 
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