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Date:      Mon, 9 Jun 1997 23:56:55 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Burton Sampley <burton@bsampley.vip.best.com>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: overclocking
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970609233603.226A-100000@bsampley.vip.best.com>
In-Reply-To: <19970610072939.55693@keltia.freenix.fr>

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Thanks for the info.  I had already found the webpage.  I followed the
instructions, except removing the cpu.  My current configuration is a
heat-sink and fan directly on the cpu and a secondary fan from the case
blowing air across the other fan, so I don't think heat or lack of
cooling is the problem.  My MB is rev 3.0 (purchased in March '97 w/
P133).  Basically after following the instructions on the webpage, I must
have one of those few CPUs that's not able to overclock.  I can only get
video output with the jumpers set to their original settings.  Oh
well..... 

As for the comment on ditching the EIDE drives...

I suffer from that common college disease called 'thin wallet disease'.  I
would love to drop in a Seagate Cheetah (10,000 RPM Ultra Wide SCSI) but I
don't have a spare $2000+ lying around gathering dust.  I did recently
upgrade from a P60 w/ the same EIDE drives.  I noticed that make world
took a little over half the time w/ the P133, so improving the CPU DOES
make a difference.

Please don't misunderstand me, I really appreciate all the help I have
received since the day I first tried FBSD, I'm just trying to get a little
more bang for my limited amount of 'bucks'.

Burton


On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Ollivier Robert wrote:

> According to Burton Sampley:
> > recently with the thread on the K6 making world in 1:21 hr.  How do you do
> > that?  I have a P133 on an ASUS P/I P55T2P4 MB w/ 80 meg RAM and 2
> 
> Which revision of the P55T2P4 ? You'll need 3.0 or later in order to use 75
> & 83 MHz. 75 MHz is documented in the manual but 83 MHz is not.
> 
> JP8 JP9 JP10 = 1-2 2-3 1-2      for 75 MHz
>              = 1-2 1-2 2-3      for 83 MHz
> 
> All [gory] details on <URL:http://sysdoc.pair.com/>.
> 
> > lethargic EIDE drives (both WD's 1.6 & 3.1).  I have currently set the MB
> > to the 2.0 & 66 MHz.  I tried setting the jumpers for 2.5 and leaving the
> > other at 66 MHz, but even BIOS wouldn't come up (I was staring at a blank
> > screen). 
> 
> Do you have a proper fan/heat sink ? That is _very_ important for
> overclocking. Is your P133 recent or not ? Some recent versions of the
> pentium refuse to run at a different clock multiplier and the only thing
> you can do is to use a faster bus.
> 
> > Does anybody know the correct jumper settings (for J8 - J11) to boost my
> > system up to 166 and 83 MHz?  Is it worth the risk of send my CPU & MB
> > into meltdown?
>  
> Like Satoshi said, buy a NCR SCSI card and some SCSI drive. That'll help a
> lot too. With proper cooling you can do wonder with overclocking.
> 
> The dd test gave me 144 MB/s for a P166 (P133 running @ 2x 83 MHz).
> -- 
> Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: There are no limits -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
> FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #18: Sun Jun  8 15:32:28 CEST 1997
> 
> 

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