Oldie overclock questions...

[PriestJPN]

Was fiddling around with a 400Mhz K6-3 installed in an old Asus P/l-P55TVP4 and pushed the fsb up to 83Mhz x 6 (500Mhz); seemed pretty stable and didn't crash under Memtest, UD agent or anything else...

The thing is, the voltage coils / h-sinks near the cpu got too hot to touch, so is good enough just to add a fan to that area, or should I not be running the board that fast?

And if someone could tell me why the flip this board doesn't identify DIMMs properly, even at normal fsb speeds (32Mb DIMM only shows up as 8Mb), that would be neat. Would like to throw out the 4 x 16Mb SIMMs... ^_^ The DIMMs are of correct type and are supported according to the manual...

Only the FSB and multiplier have been tweaked, vcore at default. BIOS is most recent and all jumpers in the right places...

[acidrainy]

If it's running stable you should be fine. As for a longer term form of damage prevention, the fan would defiantly help out.

[joshwa]

i remember some of those boards got really hot there anyway, whether you overclocked them or not. i guess since it lets you run it at 83mhz fsb, then it must be designed to cope with it

should be okay.

[PriestJPN]

Cheers guys... ^_^