Overclocked 266.....

[zenos]

Question:

I have a Celeron 266 that I am trying to overclock. I have a Maxtor harddrive, but if I turn off DMA, I can get my system to run 300 Mhz without a problem.... Benchmarking, Quake, it does it all for hours on end, days even. When I crank it on up to 333 (83x4) it Boots Win98, runs normal 2D stuff forever, but when I crank up something 3D for more than a few minutes it hangs. Now if it was really the Maxtor being unhappy at 83Mhz, wouldn't it give me problem sooner..... MUCH sooner? This sounds to me like something is overheating when I push the system, and hanging. I have a Voodoo Banshee in an AGP slot, a Shuttle HOT 637P M/B, and the Maxtor Drive. Now, everything I have tested with so far uses OpenGL, should I be looking at testing the other APIs (DirectX or Glide) to see if they do better?

Thanks.

[[dannzig]]

have you tried to up the voltage?
that helps in most situations.
just watch the heat!

/dann

[RADAR1797]

You're barking down the wrong tree with the HD. The problem most likely resides in the fact your video card is being overclocked. If you have a PCI video card, it is running at 41.5 MHz, 25% faster than spec'ed. If you have an AGP card, it is running at 83 MHZ, 17 MHz faster than spec'ed. IF you have an AGP card, you COULD set the AGP port to run at 2/3 the FSB speed. But that would UNDERclock your video card to 55 MHz, a big performace hit in the 3d world.