jbarcus81 Posted July 28, 2002 Share Posted July 28, 2002 I just got a ASUS A7A266 motherboard.. I put it all together and well noticed that my AMD Athlon T-Bird was running at 1.038Ghz when it's a 1.0Ghz processor... I have done nothing to overclock even the slightest as in this case.. I'm going to look into overclocking it and was wondering how I would do this with the motherboard I have... It's a used motherboard so the guy who owned it before me must have had a faster processor or overclocked something... Any help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lawtai Posted July 28, 2002 Share Posted July 28, 2002 I've got the A7A266. It automatically runs processors faster by about 10-30 mhz so if you're running a 1.0 ghz processor, then having it show up as 1.03 is natural. You can also turn on system acceleration inside the bios to bump that up to about 1.3 without any real problems. If you plan on overclocking, just increment the Bus speed up a couple of mhz at a time till you get be sure to find the most stable setting. Depending on how you set up your board, you can overclock with the jumpers/dip switches on the motherboard, or you can do it all in the bios if you left the jumpers in jumper free mode. I personally haven't overclocked my motherboard though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
username Posted July 28, 2002 Share Posted July 28, 2002 you are not overlcoking, wither higher multipliers (espicially with later P4s) the Front Side Bus never runs exactly at 100mhz, 133.333mhz, ect. So you 1ghz Tbird is running at 1.038Ghz or 1,038mhz and divide that by 10(your multiplier) and your FSB is at 103.8mhz (not too far out of spec, no problem) or if your have a C tbird (133.33mhz) it could be at 7.5 X 138.4mhz, either way, you should have no problems if your temps are fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbarcus81 Posted July 28, 2002 Author Share Posted July 28, 2002 lawtai I did what you said and now it's at 1.36GHz and only went up a degree in temp... I LOVE ASUS!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
username Posted July 28, 2002 Share Posted July 28, 2002 it sounds like it was a 1.33ghz tbird to begin with Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lawtai Posted July 28, 2002 Share Posted July 28, 2002 yep, asus makes some nice boards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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