Will overclock my A1G3XE to 933Mhz!!!

[Helgis75]

Yes, that's right! I will overclock my forthcoming A1G3XE to 933Mhz. I don't want to risk the CPU by overclocking to 1Ghz. I happen to know that IBM had problems to push the 750FX to 1Ghz, but 933Mhz seem to be the maximum speed the FX can go without getting heater...

Interesting to see is that IBM is working on the 750GX-version of G3, starting at 1.4Ghz, with 1MB L2 Cache among other new things. Say, if you overclock the 1.4Ghz 750GX G3 CPU at twice the clock rate, then you should get speeds up to 2.8Ghz!!!!!!!!! I think so...

But for the moment, i will overclock the G3 to 933Mhz, as most people with G3-XE seem to have done..:-)

Should get my A1G3XE mobo by next week. I was told that Eyetech had delivered them out this week to Gunne...so yes, i guess...next week:-)

[olegil]

Gee dude, take it easy.

High bloodpressure kills, you know ;-)

[Helgis75]

olegil wrote:
Gee dude, take it easy.

High bloodpressure kills, you know ;-)

You're really funny, you know that?  ;-)
But don't worry, i will relax:-)

[odin]

A G3 at >2GHz ?

Wouldn't that need liquid nitrogen cooling? ;-)

[Minion]

A PIV at 3.06 Ghz doesn't ;-)

[odin]

No, a Picasso IV at that speed will just melt :-)

[Helgis75]

When IBM releases the GX-variant of G3, starting at 1.4Ghz, it COULD be possible to overclock it over 2Ghz!!!!!

[odin]

Only with some serious cooling I'd guess.

[Casper]

It is pretty unrealistic to think that you could overclock a processor to twice its clockspeed. If it could go that fast it would be rated at that speed.

[KennyR]

The clockspeed at which a CPU will run at controllable heat and 0% error is the clockspeed at which it is sold.

[odin]

Well...the 'controllable heat' part is debatable. *If* you're willing to spend a fortune on cooling equipment.

[Hooligan_DCS]

The first thing that comes to my mind: why on earth? What will you do with those few extra mhz?

[Tomas]

KennyR wrote:
The clockspeed at which a CPU will run at controllable heat and 0% error is the clockspeed at which it is sold.

Thats bull.. lets take the tbred xp1700 as an example... If you overclock it to the same speed as a xp2400, it will be exactly as hot as the orginal tbred xp2400 unless you fiddle with the voltage.

[Tomas]

Helgis75 wrote:
When IBM releases the GX-variant of G3, starting at 1.4Ghz, it COULD be possible to overclock it over 2Ghz!!!!!

That is being a little too optimistic i think. Usually the newst model is clocked pretty near the edge of what it can do anyways.. maybe 1.5-1.6g if you are extremly lucky.....

Its easier to overclock newer models of the slower proccessors, since they are manufanctored using the same specs as the fastest models. This is the case with amd and such atleast.

[Tomas]

Hooligan_DCS wrote:
The first thing that comes to my mind: why on earth? What will you do with those few extra mhz?

It makes a pretty big difference with cpu intensive programs like for example video encoding and such... Though i doubt os4 will have much applications like that  :-)  Though it will probably crunch some more seti or dnetc  :-D