o/clocking k6-2 500

[Rainbow]

Whats the best way to overclock my k62 500? ive reached 550 and 525 using various different methods but neither seems very stable, would win 2000 be better than win98? Any tips would be gratefully received.

[Mykex]

I'll say right off the 500 with better than average cooling will in most cases max out at 575 and with some thats a great OC. For help getting stability more info is needed. Others have tossed everything including the kitchen sink to get 600 but it is rare. Oh and caused a few CPU's to be Cooked <pun intended no offence though. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif

Whats your setup motherboard ect.?
What are your OCed temps?
What are you using for cooling?
Are you using thermal compound?
Are you adjusting the voltage?
Have you been only trying FSB or have you also been trying the multiplier?

As well as info for others to help help, alot of the fore mentioned are the typical bottlenecks.

[Ed_S]

As Mykex said, more info is needed to help you. Answer those questions, they're critical.

I'm running a K6/2-500 @ 560, set at 112 fsb x 5, 2.3 volts. On a Soyo 5EHM board. Very stable with a large HS & fan, and thermal compound. It'll boot to DOS at 600, but not Windows.
If you've got higher fsb's available, try that instead of the multiplier.

[faststang]

I have a AMD k6-2 500 o/c'ed to 600mhz. but of course it is water cooled. 6x100mhz, 2.4v, mobo Gigabyte Ga5aa. That is the most I could get out of it... I would getreed of the k6-2 and get a duron or t-bird, I have a t-bird 900mhz and a KT7 mobo on the way.

[radman3d2]

Faststang, how long have you had your 500@600 because it may not last too long at that speed? Everything I have read points to the max speed being about 560-570 and over that you take the chance of blowing up the L1 cache.

[faststang]

Radman, I have only had it at 600 of about 2 weeks maybe 3, but like I said its only until I get my t-bird, and KT7 mobo, which I should have next week.

[HO2]

Hi guy’s,

I find this Post nice to put a question that maybe some one could please answer. I have a K6-2 350 (not overclocked) on a Chaintech CT-5AGM2. The system has also 64 sdram and a Fujitsu 13.6 hard drive. Well my self has assembled this all. Actually I’m thinking push it up a bit, cause I know the motherboard is able, but is the K6-2?

One other question that is bothering me: sometimes the system stops, freezes, for just 2/3 seconds and them back to work. In mean time, there’s no activity – hard drive is silent and the mouse it’s glued. What would this be? I think it might be some kind of conflict (there’s nothing reported on the Devise Manager) and I don’t get any crashes (well just occasionally but have nothing to do with it)

Could any of you please help me with this? I would be grateful.
Thanks in advance.

HO2

[radman3d2]

To o/c this CPU you will need to know the core voltages of 2.3v, 2.4v and 2.5v. Try 2.3=11000, 2.4=00100 and 2.5v=10100. I am guessing this are the settings. This is to make the system stable when you raise the CPU speed. If you raise the core voltage you are going to need more cooling and you also should back-up your hard drive. Try raising the core voltage a tenth or two to get the stability you need. If you try say 95*4.5=427 you may need to raise the voltage up to 2.5v and in some cases 2.6v=01100. Do not go over 2.6v. When does it lock-up, in IE or some other program?

[sowadsurpoint]

H2O
I am fairly new to this forum myself but if I was you, I think I would attempt to stabilize my system before I attempted OC. Try running a bench mark program and use the burn option. Load it up and see what it does. This will stress your system quite a bit but if it won't make it in original configuration it will never last in OC. Actually the original configuration may be set up wrong. After all people did it. Also the log may offer suggetions to correct your problem. I don't know this board but I know the chip. I would make sure the settings are correct before running the test. And as always WATCH THE HEAT.

[HO2]

Thank you radman3d2, I'll try that setings.

My system locks-up with any software, word, IE, Outlook, Corel... and I'm not doing nothing special, but it locks-up.
I've try to look every bios features (award) but nothing... it locks again.
One funny thing: when I'm writing in Word and it lock's, if I continue to write, when it backs to "normal" the text is there, so it looks like it was writing to/or from disk or memory when it lock's.

I think I'm missing something.

HO2

[radman3d2]

Could it be your virus program? Uninstall it and reinstall it. I noticed after I installed McAfee that it paused (not a lock-up) every now and then. Do a search in tech. support on this site with the key words 'lock-up'. Maybe there will be something you can use to correct your problem. Last resort is to just reload everything, but the problem may just return if it is a conflict between software. So when you reload try to keep track when it happens again. I have a shutdown problem and I'm thinking of reloading everything to see if it is my sound card drivers. So I'm not going to load them until later and see if the problem happens without them.