Overclocking Bppc 040????

[Peter_s]

Hey guys,

I'm after a little bit of advice on overclocking my BPPC 040. its running at 160mhz (or there about) but I find it lags abit on Heretic2 and afew other PPC games.  So I did a search on overclocking this card and came across this site Overclock place and im plannig on using the The multiplier way to try and speed this board up abit, but my problem is I dont know what speed I can take it upto safely

I didn't look at 160 and 175 ones, but I believe that nothing changes

So if anyone has done this or has an idea please let me know or if you had any problems with your card afterwards.

Thanks in advance guys :-)

[Peter_s]

Thanks DJBase:-)  thats the number I was hoping for, I'm not wanting to max the board out. But just take the edge of afew PPC games.

[Peter_s]

Well I finally dug the BPPC 040 out the loft to overclock it, And noticed the way my resistors are set out

And i noticed that if i did the 3.5x, then I'd only have to move the one resistor but that would make the card 231mhz so would that be too much for this card to cope with.  I do have a spare cooling fan I can add.  But wanted to check with you's guys first to see what ya think? or should I just used the 3x config to be on the safe side.

[Peter_s]

Update:
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Well i overclocked the card to 200mhz and added an extra fan and its worked perfect, I've had no problems atall in the last 24 odd hours, except from one that nigling little curious voice that wonders about,if It could cope with being overclocked to the 231mhz??  I know its a case of flipping a coin but what do you guys think.

a) slight chance it will work!
b) should work!
c) Get ready for a BANG!!!!!!

Thanks in advance for any advice. :-)

[Peter_s]

thank you, i think out of interest I'll overclock it up again and if its dies , I always have my BPPC 060 to use. but if it doesnt die then its just a case of seeing how long it will lives for :-) and if its dies ,then I've just pushed the value of the rest of the BPPC cards up abit lol

[Peter_s]

Well I overclocked the card upto 233mhz, but I guess it was just to much for the card to handle.  The card seemed to work fine and with ppctool it was register as 233mhz but the only draw back was it refused to play heretic2 and payback the games would start to load and then just freeze. So I removed the card and put it back to the 200mhz and all the games work now. so i guess 233mhz is too much :-(