Overclocking the K6-2, please help!

[3991vhtes]

I'm going to OC my K6-2. It's stock speed is 500MHz. The core name is Chomper.

There's a problem, my PCChips M585LMR Mobo doesn't POST with anything above 105FSB*5.5. The max FSB it has is 124, and the max multi is 5.5.

I tried setting it at 110*5.5, and it doesn't POST, as with 110*4, 110*3, etc..

Is there anything I can do?!

Thanks

 

[CH@NO]

Maybe your ram is the problem. That K6 it's too old to OC and that PC-Chips mobo doesn't appear to Help much.

Try the basics, if the problem persist just leave it there.....or maybe you'll damage your system.

 

[Deleted member 3]

Try the basics, if the problem persist just leave it there.....or maybe you'll damage your system.

Who cares? It's worthless, it's exactly why he's doing it. I'd make sure I'd use PC133 RAM, check if there are dividers, voltmod, etc.

 

[Steevo]

Bump your I-O and core voltage a bit on the chip, they are power hungry, and Dan is right on the RAM, I had to get a few different sets of 133 before I was able to overclock as high as my Asus could go.



Still have it at home. Mebey I will dig it out. Get some dry ice.

 

[Namslas90]

I'm going to OC my K6-2. It's stock speed is 500MHz. The core name is Chomper.

There's a problem, my PCChips M585LMR Mobo doesn't POST with anything above 105FSB*5.5. The max FSB it has is 124, and the max multi is 5.5.

I tried setting it at 110*5.5, and it doesn't POST, as with 110*4, 110*3, etc..

Is there anything I can do?!

Thanks

Check mobo for jumper settings to up the FSB.

What mobo? The super 7's are best.

 

[suraswami]

I'm going to OC my K6-2. It's stock speed is 500MHz. The core name is Chomper.

There's a problem, my PCChips M585LMR Mobo doesn't POST with anything above 105FSB*5.5. The max FSB it has is 124, and the max multi is 5.5.

I tried setting it at 110*5.5, and it doesn't POST, as with 110*4, 110*3, etc..

Is there anything I can do?!

Thanks

What's the current voltage on the cpu? I have to push mine to 2.8V (if I remember right) to get 100*6 from 100*5. The heat sink was very hot to touch. But who cares. Worked like that for a year until retired.

My board had jumpers for every change you need to make. Voltage, Multiplier, FSB etc.

 

[3991vhtes]

Who cares? It's worthless, it's exactly why he's doing it. I'd make sure I'd use PC133 RAM, check if there are dividers, voltmod, etc.

Actully, I want this to be a good working system, my friend wants it, and I don't want to give him a system that is going to die within a little bit.

Check mobo for jumper settings to up the FSB.

What mobo? The super 7's are best.

There are no FSB jumpers

It's a PC Chips M585LMR.

What's the current voltage on the cpu? I have to push mine to 2.8V (if I remember right)

VCore is stock, I think it WAS 2.3V.

 

[3991vhtes]

The CPU died, not overclocking related.

 

[hat]

PC Chips

lol there's your problem, PC Chips sucks

 

[3991vhtes]

Not rly. I think this is a great board

 

[hat]

Not rly.

I think this is a great board

 

[3991vhtes]

wai

 

[hat]

no wai. PC Chips is a low-end and ultimately crappy manufacturer, just like Powmax is with psu's. I wouldn't even use PC Chips if I was building a computer that wasn't even going to be overcloced. On top of that it's matx based on a pic you showed earlier, and we all know matx boards suck for overclocking. You're lucky you even have an option to change the FSB.

 

[man114]

I used one of those fabled PC Chips M590 boards with the fake 100mhz bus speed (was really 90mhz) to overclock a K6-2 400 to 500mhz back in the day. Thing was rock solid stable at 500 with relatively standard cooling (slighly larger than average heatsink/fan), could run games and benchmarks all day and it wouldn't crash. I eventually sold the chip in another PC Chips board, or the Amptron equiv. of such (think it was an M599LMR) and clocked it at 500 with the same settings. Worked fine. Had to run the core voltage at 2.8 volts to do it but the thing barely got warm. I was quite surprised. I still have the M590 with a K6-2 533 @ 540mhz but no longer use it, for the 7mhz difference I didn't even raise the voltage core. I used to use an M-Technology M549 (I bought it for $12 at CompUSA on clearance for fooling around with) to overclock Cyrix chips, drove an MII 333 (one of the black topped ones) up to just shy of 300mhz using an undocumented 83mhz bus setting and at that speed that thing was darn fast.

If you intend on using the board a K6-3 yields much better performance if it works in that board (it worked in the M599LMR).

One of these days if I'm bored I plan on trying to push these things to some extremes and perhaps burn a few of these old suckers out. Maybe I'll shoot for a true 333mhz on the Cyrix.

 

[erocker]

I was still using Intel back then. Omg, that reminds me, I was at my parents house yesterday and found my old PII machine. I also found a OEM copy of Windows 98! I can't remember what kind of PII it is yet, but anyways I'm throwing another stick of 128mb in it for a total of 384mb. The best part is hopefully I can get my 3dfx Voodoo 5500 AGP to rock once again! I totally want to try getting HL2 to play on it.

 

[Basard]

Maybe I'm way outa line with this. But I just pretty much learned what spread spectrum was about 6 months ago. Before that, I had no clue what it ever did. But every thing I read about spread spectrum was that you should have it off if you overclock. Did CPUs back then even have the option? Or is it just on newer systems?

 

[3991vhtes]

no wai. PC Chips is a low-end and ultimately crappy manufacturer, just like Powmax is with psu's. I wouldn't even use PC Chips if I was building a computer that wasn't even going to be overcloced. On top of that it's matx based on a pic you showed earlier, and we all know matx boards suck for overclocking. You're lucky you even have an option to change the FSB.

I disagree w/ PC chips being lowend and crappy, but do agree w/ Powmax.

Actully, it's not mATX. It's Baby AT/mATX. How, exactly, do mATX boards suck for overclocking?

FSB options range from 60 to 124, forgot the max multi.

 

[hat]

1. 3991 man, PC Chips sucks. Wether you choose to believe so or not isn't my endavor, I'm just trying to help you. They just do.

2. About mATX boards sucking for overclocking. mATX boards are cheap and cheaply made. In fact, most full-sized boards suck too. You'll see the same motherboard appearing in system specs across many people (like the Gigabyte DS3, Asus Crosshair, AW9D-MAX, 680i, etc). Nobody makes mATX boards for overclocking.

Think about it. mATX boards are made for mATX cases. Nobody is going to put expensive hardware and try to overclock it in an mATX case. There's no room for the big heatsinks or the video cards that put longcat to shame.

Longcat:

 

[Steevo]

Damn that bee a long cat!!!!




Plus alot of the cheper boards were plagued with low binned parts from the same MFG as the high end boards.

 

[3991vhtes]

I'm sticking w/ my good ol' M585LMR no matter what (unless it gets fried in a power surge)...

About mATX boards sucking, my A8V-VM SE is mATX and I'm not having any problems with it whatsoever.