Burning in suggestions

[richamies]

I'm thinking of leaving my k6-II400 running at 300 for a couple of days at 2.8/2.9v with a view to getting her to run stable at 600, hopefully at 2.5v. Any opinions on this? At the moment she will post and runs W95 but isnt very stable at all. No BSOD's on bootup or anything but she seems to like hanging and locking up my mouse on me. Completely refuses to run Sandra so I cant get a benchmark to see if she running this high is worth it either. She is well cooled and runs flawlessly at 550@2.5v, but if she'll do 600 then that would be great, would make me a real proud AMD supporter.

[This message has been edited by richamies (edited 01-01-2000).]

[scotter]

Hi rich http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif well I've run through every thing on the net I can find about overclocking AMD chips and Ive seen a few claims of 600+ but none that showed how they did it or pictures of benchmarks of the systems so I'm not realy sure 600 is do able with a K6-2 or 3 chip if it is it's gona be with one of the chips that came out of the fab in the last few months or your going to need some realy good cooling like water and or pelters to keep the temp down around O/c even then I dont know might take sub 0 temps to do it
Also it it's a new AFX core chip I would not go over 2.8 volts

I'm preaty sure I could get my 450 to 575 it's at 550 now but I'm also sure that's all my chip has in it 575mhz and it whould be maxed out http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif

anyway that's thats what I think I know, I know I think about it all http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

If you make it Please tell us all about it and how you did it and be careful and dont fry the 400 running 150mhz over stock it's a one of a kind http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[alpha]

Listen to scotter, he knows what he's talking about.

Try running at 425mhz and 2.6v to burn in for a while. It's very rare for a K6 to make 600 and if it does, it don't always last long. My K6-2 350 with an alpha will do 450mhz and 2.4or.5 volts. With more extreme cooling (72watt peltier) I'm sure it would do 475 or 500mhz. Be careful.

[richamies]

I think I'm gonna forget the 600 and keep it a dream for now.... This chip has and still is absolutely perfect in every respect, I'm not gonna risk her. If I dont benchmark her at 600 I wont know what I am missing, and if I never see it stable at 600 then I wont miss the performance. I know she will run 570 fine(95*6) but I feel this is a little hard for such a wonderful chip. Forget Socalgal maybe I should be taking this chip out for a meal http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif
Man, I love this chip and dont wanna kill her, she means more to me than anything else in my computing history(kinda like your first car?) I'm more than happy with 550, I think I'll leave her at that.
But i just KNOW she wants to go for 600! She is begging me to do it! ARRRGGHHH!!! The temptation is huge, she has been stable at every speed used so far apart from 600. But I'm gonna be strong willed, and just be happy with what I got from her right now. Thanks for all your input on burning in, especially Scotter, I take your advice and thoughts regarding the K6 series as law.

[scotter]

well thank you but most of the time I'm just talking lol http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif anyway it's a bad one when the clock bug get's ya lol http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif
I will probably try for 600 one of the days right now I'm just doing to much else with my puter to risk a burnt chip http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[richamies]

Scotter go for it you'll do it no problems!! When CSC falls I'm dropping mine back to 500 and keeping her there. Its like my car, just cos i know she'll do 130mph I dont driver her like that all the time. If we ever get into a similar position to the current CSC position then I'll bump her back up.
I love this chip and I aint gonna kill her mircilessly http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif She's gonna be here for a whil yet http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[alpha]

I'm sure socalgal loves you http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif lol

[socalgal]

alpha, I think it means I just got dumped for a K6-II400 *sigh*

Well, thankfully I have my PIII 450 @527 to keep me happy til the next chip comes along.
http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[richamies]

Socalgal don't worry!! You are still the woman of which dreams are made, but you aint mine http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif This little chip is currently mine, and I'm gonna love and respect her like I'd love and respect you, until my big whiskey bottle is full enough to get me that plane ticket. Or that full whiskey bottle would buy me a dual athlon system, when it is full, but by that time Athlons will be so far out of date I'll still be coming over to see ya!

[alpha]

So Socalgal, you in Ireland anytime soon?

[scotter]

hey Socalgal I only live about 90 miles south of you http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif what about having lunch one day next time I get up there ? http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif
I just had to ask lol http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif
pluse then I can tell rich and alpha what there missin http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[richamies]

Get off she's mine! I saw her first!!!
Getting worried now that it could all be over http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif Who wants to swap a nice K6-II 400 guaranteed stable at 550 plus mobo and mem and AGP gfx card and 15" monitor for a one way ticket to Socalgal's house?

[scotter]

hey rich ya got nothing to worry about from me http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif I'm happly married with 3 kids http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif
check out my home page at
http://home.att.net/~aslsc
theres gona be a whole section in the next month with pictures on overclocking the AMD K6-2 chips http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif
gona do every thing from Lapping your chip and heatsink to rapping your cables and adding extra case fans http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif
Might even pop the cap off my chip and build the new cap I been thinkin about it's gona be cool http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif
it should all be done buy the end of the month heck I got a lot of time extra while I wait on my dad to send me more framily tree stuff http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[alpha]

I have a far more practicle sollution that involves no traveling.... DEATHMATCH UT. Whoes up for it? Socalgal?

Lets see what that AMD's made of....

[scotter]

i dont have UT yet http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif
or the gold version of Q3 http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif I'm still playing with the demo .

[richamies]

I have Quake 3, don't buy it unless ya have a load of people and a network. Much prefer HalfLife, but I'm **** at both so I'm gonna lose Socalgal either way <sigh>

*EDIT*

AMD will handle it no probs, but I wont last long enough to give it a chance to crash http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[This message has been edited by richamies (edited 01-05-2000).]

[alpha]

Get UT and prepare to be beaten! (I'm also reffering to that smarmy little K6-2 of yours)!!!!!
My 350 will smoke along at 428mhz and my Savage4 does a good job of backing it up.

No offence to any parties involved in this post, i.e. soclagal, richamies and scotter.

What's your PIII up to socalgal, hmm? lol http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[BBA]

I don't know for sure...but I think socalgal will be popular far longer than that K6 chip you got richamies!

Maybe you need to rearrange your priorities a little ( j/k )

[scotter]

Alpha your only running at 428mhz http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif man get with the program me and rich are crusin at 550 mhz http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif talk about leavin tire track's we would smoke you all the way by the by K-6-2 450 @ 550 with a voodoo3 2000 clocked to 175mhz are you sure I mean really sure ya want to take that bet ? lol http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif
so any way I can see that as soon as I get the extra few $ I'm gona have to get UT just to show ya what a K-6-2 can do http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif
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Man Am I haven fun now lol http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[richamies]

Errmmmm well Alpha would kick my *** I got a 4mb AGP ATI Rage pro heap-o-****e here, but its fine cos I dont play games. Alpha wins! Scotter wins! I lose! Same as normal.
I'm happy though cos I just got my own name on the internet www.richamies.co.uk (http://www.richamies.co.uk) hehe am I the first?

[denz]

You think your vid card is bad? I've got a 4MB S3 Trio3D. This piece of **** can only give me 13fps w/ QII crusher demo. Good thing I'm not a game buff. But it's really awful with my CAD apps. BTW, anyone has an experience w/ Matrox G400? I'm planning to buy one to mate w/ my K6-2/350 @ 500 and
ep-mvp3g2 mobo. Is it good w/ overclocking? Thanks in advance.

[scotter]

well denz as for the G400 I havent got a clue except for what I've read and all that was good if i got one think I'd go for the dual head though man dual monitors from 1 card and both at really high res http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif got to like that http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif thats a close as your gona get for a while to running 2 agp cards http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

and rich your cool bro http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif you win by defalt with that bad *** video card http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[alpha]

Savage4 has S3TC, UT has 522mb of EXTRA textures completly omptimised for this card. I didn't say I'd beat him did I? I was actually talking about beating people in deathmatch UT http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif, Despite the VooDoo3's speed, the Savage4 is the king (or queen, whichever you prefer http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif)of image qualtiy. Mmmmm, S3TC I'm currently looking for a K6-2 533. Board has no 133FSB, so I'l give it 600mhz http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Hell, socalgal's PIII would leave my machine in the dust. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

No real competition (except for the deathmatch http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif) ment in this post.

EDIT~
I think I'm going for a K6-III 400 http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif 256k of full speed on board L2. Never say die http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif (get it? on die cache?)

EDIT~
Or mabey a celeron 366...

[This message has been edited by alpha (edited 01-06-2000).]

[alan]

hi

[richamies]

Hi Alan

[alpha]

Hi

[scotter]

hi http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif every one http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[richamies]

Heheheh whats with all this "Hi" business anywayz?

[denz]

yeah. what's w/ this hi thing?

[RONALDvd#22]

Don't 'Hi' any more or I will have to kick you!

[richamies]

If I jump "Hi" then will you miss? http://www.sysopt.com/forum/biggrin.gif

sorry about the pun but it had to be done!

[RONALDvd#22]

Now I know you will jump 'Hi',I will kick 'Hi'.So I don't think I will miss.Again thanks for the welcoming.

[RONALDvd#22]

Richamies,nice chatroom you have here!

[ck42866]

Hi, did someone say hi? Who's getting hi without me? Richamies, I hold you personally responsible. From now on, NO ONE gets HI without me!!! Ok, ok....you meant hello. Well, no one gets hello without me! Is that clear to everyone?

[richamies]

Sorry CK, didn't mean to stand on anyones feet. Maybe I should have done, then Ronald couldn't have kicked me http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Shall I start using "Greetingz" instead then?

[This message has been edited by richamies (edited 01-08-2000).]

[RONALDvd#22]

Greetingz,Greetingz would be MUCH better,I'm telling ya,much better!



[This message has been edited by RONALDvd#22 (edited 01-08-2000).]

[richamies]

For all you newbies - this was great at the time, still worth a read now http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif
http://www.sysopt.com/forum/Forum3/HTML/003141.html

[RONALDvd#22]

Sorry I haven't read it completely yet,but I haven't seen something like that before.I think it is some kind of strange phenomenon or something like that,well it is extremely long!You should all check it at: http://www.sysopt.com/forum/Forum3/HTML/003141.html read it all!

[KeithV]

Hi!
Hola!
Hallo!

I can't speak anything else http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif doh