6 Feb 2004 kunal
» (Master)
Are you sick of your old Pentium-II, and can't play games
because of Low mem bandwidth? I just downloaded this CPU-
cool software. goto www.podien.de and download CPU-FSb, its
awesome.
I have a Hewlett Packard Brio BA600, with a Pentium-III
coppermine @ 650Mhz. The BIOS setup they have on all
branded PCs wont let you overclock the damn processor by
even a megahertz, so what this software basically does is
overwrites your existing PLL values, and it works well.
As of now, I just stuck a heatsink on the Northbridge (se-
440BX mobo) and with the stock cooling it was able to run
Sisoft Sandra Burnin wizard (Arithmetic, Multimedia, Memory
and cache benchmark) a 100 times without crashing.
But do be careful that you DO NOT overclock the PCI bus
more than 37Mhz when using UDMA transfers on the Hard-
drive, may result in Data corruption....also watch out for
your AGP bus exceeding the speed, may result in unstability.
Anyway the overclocked 440BX at 133Mhz FSB has better
integer and Float Bandwidth than an 815E.( 976MB/s and
843MB/s on Sandra 2004).
Somebody outta have this program for Linux.....as of now I
start windows, restart the PC into Linux, because the
overwritten PLL values remain even after rebooting.