Going to overclock the A1G3XE to 1Ghz!!!!!!!

[mikeymike]

With that many exclamation marks in the subject line, I'm sure it's got to work!

[mikeymike]

With that many exclamation marks though, you're bound to overflow the exclamation mark buffer in the G3, especially if it's overclocked.

[mikeymike]

Wouldn't the rest of the board still be operating at it's normal slower speed?

That depends on how you decide to overclock, don't it? :-)

Overclocking the FSB is generally more tricky than CPU overclocking (unless you have to do some hardware hacking on the CPU itself, then that's harder :-)), and usually you can't overclock the FSB that much, as you still have to maintain timings with other devices in use, so the benefit generally isn't that great.

I never noticed a difference in my GeForce 2 GTS performance when I had to have the AGP clock to 83MHz instead of 66MHz (due to 133MHz CPU in BX chipset mobo).  That's not to say that FSB overclocking is useless, just a real-life example.

What you were saying about programs being stored entirely in the CPU's internal memory cache.  Don't count on it.  If anyone were thinking that this would be a major factor, run some performance monitoring software specifically for the CPU  (I can't find the software I used to use anymore, I'm going to have to email a mate to find out its name and download it again :-)), then run the apps you generally use to see what kind of cache hit successes you get.

[mikeymike]

Not really... thats usually the only way to do it these days, unless you unlock the cpu. Most of todays cpu has sadly locked multipilere, i dunno if the g3 has it though...#

Some do, some don't.  A recent AthlonXP hasn't IIRC.

From what I've seen of FSB overclocking, sometimes you can tweak the FSB without screwing with PCI clock, and most of the time you have to screw with the PCI clock.  And then all you need is one fussy card on that bus.  Like say an SBLive! :-)