How did it work? Very well, thank you! Here first are my
test systems specifications, and then we'll take a look at some interesting
numbers.
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Antec 830SX Workstation Tower case with 4 - 80mm
case fans
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Antec PP403x 400 Watt Power supply
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Asus CUSL2 Intel i815 mainboard
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Intel Pentium 3 700mhz FCPGA (cb0 stepping) @ 1.95v
core
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128meg Mushkin PC150 ESDRAM DIMM
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Hercules Prophet 3D DDR/DVI Geforce AGP video card
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Aopen 16x DVD drive
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Plextor 8x20 SCSI CD-R drive (w/ Adaptec 2930c
UltraSCSI PCI controller)
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Maxtor DiamondMax UDMA66 13.6G IDE HDD
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Creative Labs Soundblaster Live Value OEM PCI
soundcard
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Realtek 8029AS PCI Ethernet (10baseT) controller
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Windows Millineum Operating System
I could have probably achieved better results without
the Adaptec 2930c card in the system, as it gets "skittish" above a certain
level of PCI bus speed, but I didn't bother removing it for the purpose of this
article, as I wanted a real world test of a "slap it in and bolt it on"
approach. The Asus CUSL2 board does have proper AGP/PCI divider support for 133+
FSB speeds, but even then, the Adaptec board isn't happy beyond a certain point
of elevated PCI bus speed. Be that as it may, where did I end up?
WhatCPU indicates a 149FSB speed, although the BIOS
indicates 150. The final clock speed ended up at 1050mhz, which indicates that
the BIOS is "more" correct that WhatCPU. :) All in all a nice 350mhz/50%
overclock, and with complete stability at that bus rate.
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