Platforms running Fedora

[Thomas Ratliff]

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From: Vink <vinksoft at xs4all.nl>
Sent: Feb 20, 2004 7:40 AM
To: fedora-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: Platforms running Fedora

Jeff Ratliff wrote:

>>My other Fedora system is a Athlon 2600+ (overclocked to 3000+ speeds) with
>>a Geforce FX 5600 Ultra and 512 megs RAM.
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>I have an Athlon 1600+ cpu, can I overclock that also? And how do you do 
>that?

It really depends on hardware (motherboard mostly). You can up the frontside bus speed in the BIOS little by little until the system will no longer boot, then back it off a few steps to get it stable. You need a motherboard that's designed for it, though. Also realize that you will get lots more heat, may have to upgrade your cooling fan, and may cause components to fail prematurely. I'd guess you may be able to get a few 100 more MHz out of that chip, but it may not work at all. The reason I bought a 2600+ is I knew it had lots of headroom since the same core is now doing close to 3000 MHz.
  It's a complicated topic, too involved to discuss in detail here, and may not even be worth the trouble. I'd suggest looking at www.dansdata.com for starters, and searching his articles for "overclock". If nothing else, you'll get a good laugh as Dan is quite entertaining.