Oveclocking a SEC cartridge

[Blazer06]

How would I overclock a SEC cartridge?

AMD Athlon 750Mhz
256 MB SDRAM
Windows 98se

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[Nighthawk]

I think you can get a GoldFinger device for slot Athlons that'll let you change multipliers and everything.

[jokostel]

goldfingers are probably the easiest to use for the slot athlons.... im not sure where you can pick one up though.... try the trdaing forum here or pricewatch.com heck maybe even tomshardware.com may have a article up yet where you can buy one.

[nukes]

You can also solder resistors to the chip to change multipliers/cache dividers. THG has lots of info on this and the GFC slot as he discovered it. You will need to take the casing off the athlon though, and some fans don't attach properley with the GFDs sticking out so you may need to look into that. The original (slot A) Athlons were great overclockers I had a 600mhz one running at 1400mhz, because I messed up soldering the resistors. I had a pretty odd cooling system on it too.
It also helps to have a mobo that lets you change the FSB and voltage too, but that can also be changed by modding the chip.
Just bear in mind that the cache doesn't run at the full speed of the cpu it runs at 1/3 or 1/4 speed as it is off-die (hence the slot cartridge rather than a socket) so the performance won't be the same as a modern athlon, esp now they support SSE etc.

[Blazer06]

Thanks, I'll look into it.

Blaze

[nukes]

Good luck. Hope you can find a GFD (Gold Finger Device) as it can be pretty daunting solding those little SMD resistors on you cpu. (Especially when its brand new, but I doubt that one is)