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I bought a comp. from Acer with a pentium 3 1 ghz. I want to overclock it but my mobo doesn't have the functions to do it. How can I overclock it??

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sure you can do that, but he asked how to overclock his current computer, hell, he could put anything in it with oc options and overclock it if you want to go by your method

also the P3 has a max speed at about 1.1ghz so you really would not got too much extra performance

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Originally posted by username

sure you can do that, but he asked how to overclock his current computer, hell, he could put anything in it with oc options and overclock it if you want to go by your method

also the P3 has a max speed at about 1.1ghz so you really would not got too much extra performance

i beg to differ, the p3 1ghz is overclockable to about 1.3, with the right memory of course (quality memory)... about overclocking your current system, unless you have a fsb option in the bios, your pretty much dead in the water with that setup...there are programs out there like cpucool, that let you adjust the fsb from within windows, but they are very unstable, always best to OC from your bios.

Also to add, on my system which is a p3 1.2. i have it up to 1.54ghz (all it took was on notch up on the vcore from 1.47 to 1.52) Temps are 42load 38idle. The P3's are quite overclockable depending on which stepping you have (model).

To give you an ex, i upped my fsb from 133/133/33 to 166/166/41

Which gave me 1.54

The beauty of overclocking via the board (FSB) is everything attached to that board is overclocked as well...but that might also pose a problem when one of your PCI"s chokes on the upped speed.

Hope this helped

Board of recommendation for a p3 is the Asus TUSL2 (great Board)

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Isnt anything over the 1.13ghz (which was recalled) done at .13 micon (Tualatin core) which is what you have? The 1ghz P3 is .18m did have a limit at 1.13ghz without extreme cooling. Yeah, the Tualatin P3 can go way up there, it was just a shame they came out after the P4 because they had better performance

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Isnt anything over the 1.13ghz (which was recalled) done at .13 micon (Tualatin core) which is what you have? The 1ghz P3 is .18m did have a limit at 1.13ghz without extreme cooling. Yeah, the Tualatin P3 can go way up there, it was just a shame they came out after the P4 because they had better performance

Thank you, i stand corrected...the 1ghz is on the .018 coppermine.

the Tualatin is a great chip, overclocked i can out perform a p4 2.0 ghz with DDR (rambus blows me away hehe) but nevertheless its a great chip...however i thought that the last on that was made was the 1.26..now i hear talk of a 1.4 out there? Username have you heard of this? is it a server chip? (512k cache)

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I really have not heard much about new P3s I know Intel made celeron P3s up to 1.3ghz but now even those are on the P4 achitecture. From what I know the, P3 are done with. Shame, I think I remember reading that the Tualatin could be scaled upwards to 2.0ghz

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I really have not heard much about new P3s I know Intel made celeron P3s up to 1.3ghz but now even those are on the P4 achitecture. From what I know the, P3 are done with. Shame, I think I remember reading that the Tualatin could be scaled upwards to 2.0ghz

Yup i heard that too, they killed the p3 so it wouldnt take the spotlight off of the p4.

Celerons arent my cup of tea...budget models of the pentium.

Actually the higest p3 i found jus now was the 1.33 512k, designed for servers.

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Originally posted by wI-OSMAN-

my is a P3 copermine 700 @ 868mhz

my fbs is 124/41mhz

i went to 133/44

but windows xp home crashes

You must have the p3 700e with the 100fsb, you should get a 800eb, think it goes for like $100 now...if you have the p3 133fsb then that 44 pci bus speed must be your culprit...something on your slots is choking on that speed

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