O/C'ing AOpen AX6BC Help

[Beemer]

OK you overclocking geniouses. I'm working on my mother's machine. I'm not an O/C'er so I need careful help.

Win2000
AOpen AX6BC non-pro board
Award BIOS version 4.60 PGMA (release date 07/24/00)
Intel Pentium II Celery 350MHz
voltage 3.3+0.1V
External Clock 66MHz
Max Speed 550MHz
Current Speed 377MHz

I can't fiddle with the voltage. I only have the option of changing the:
CPU Clock Frequency (66.5 MHz)
CPU Clock Ratio ( 5.5)
CPU Speed Setting (376.7 MHz) (Automatically adjusts when the other 2 are adjusted)

Cheers!

[John Prophet]

can you even change the multiplier? I thought they were locked on intels?

[Beemer]

There isn't a multiplier setting available.
I have it up to 450MHz so far.

CPU Clock Frequency (83.3 MHz)
CPU Clock Ratio ( 5.5)
CPU Speed Setting (458.1 MHz)

[Beemer]

If I set the CPU Clock Frequency (100.0 MHz) I'm unbootable.
If I set the CPU Clock Frequency (83.3 MHz)
CPU Clock Ratio ( 6.0) I'm bootable.
The CPU Speed Setting reports (499.8 MHz) but the BIOS detection screen says 458MHz still.

I'm trying all sorts of combo's to try and get the detection to report the highest MHz possible.

[Beemer]

458.1 MHz seems to be the best I can do unless someone has a better idea, or a bigger CPU for sale for this motherboard.

Cheers!

[John Prophet]

440bx?? Dude, the skys the limit.

If you wanna really have some fun, check these out slot one to socket 370 tualatin adapter and here is the compatability list clearly showing your board works with this thing

You could get the adapter, then a used celly tualitan..like around a 1.2 gig..I got a nice used one off of anadtech forum.

Thing would scream.

I just bought 2 of these "slot t" adapters...one like the linked one and one made especially for dell gx1's...at first I was miffed...it wasnt working...then I DOWNGRADED the dell bios from a10 back to A07..and it works! lol.

Or if you have a regular slocket you can get things like this which would allow you to use regular ppga cellys.

Either way, bx boards have lots of upgradeability. Just remember when you are overclocking the fsb you are also overclocking the vid card and pci cards etc...so sometimes they hold you back and not the cpu itself.

JP

[Beemer]

That's a pretty cool little adaptation there John. I don't think I will be putting any money into her machine though. She's 71 years young and only uses the machine for browsing the NET, ICQ & E-mail. Her Photoshop7 loads & processes quick enough. She even browses techimo occationally. She doesn't need much power. 458MHz with 192MB's of RAM should do her fine. Eventually I will max out the RAM on the board. I was just hoping to get a little more CPU speed from that cellery.

Thanks & Cheers!