From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 13 5:21:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gatekeeper.tripos.com (gatekeeper.tripos.com [192.160.145.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8485937B938 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 05:21:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scoles@tripos.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tripos.com (SMI-8.6) id HAA20388 for <@firewall.tripos.com:questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 07:21:17 -0500 Received: from unknown(172.20.5.15) by gatekeeper.tripos.com via smap (V5.0) id xma020082; Tue, 13 Jun 00 07:17:08 -0500 Received: from volga ([172.20.152.76]) by tripos.com (980919.SGI.STAND) via SMTP id HAA70483 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 07:17:06 -0500 (CDT) From: "Steve Coles" To: Subject: RE: Overclocking AMD K6-'s and FreeBSD Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 13:16:38 +0100 Message-ID: <1b2101bfd531$39657f10$4c9814ac@volga.TRIPOS.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3612.1700 In-Reply-To: <20000612230802.26867.qmail@web204.mail.yahoo.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG For what it's worth. I have a 350 clocked up to 450 * (4.5 x 100) and all is stable - the same was true when the system ran NT. The panic / BSOD problems that I have faced with over-clocking were always related to MOBO / memory not handling 100Mhz. I have some 450 Mhz clocked-down to 83 Mhz bus speeds for this reason. Steve > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Joey Garcia > Sent: 13 June 2000 00:08 > To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Overclocking AMD K6-'s and FreeBSD > > > 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 > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! > http://photos.yahoo.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message