Here We Go...

In my latest computer tweaking and hacking "obsession", I've been scouring the net looking for some good overclockable dual Pentium III boards, slot one. I couldn't find any that "had it all", and I was really really close to ordering a Tyan Tiger 100 board, but held off. Then while still searching, I stumbled across an article reviewing my motherboard. So I figured "what the hell" and read it to see if they had anything good or bad to say about my beloved motherboard.

I was completely shocked to see that they said there's an undocumented feature to change the FSB speed in varying steps from 66 to 112MHz. My jaw dropped to the floor with this kick-ass news because I thought I would be locked down with a 100MHz FSB and have to spend $100-200 on another board. So... I went into the BIOS and changed the mode settings to 5, and it booted up to see 933MHz processors instead of 700MHz... Interesting. That means mode 5 is 133MHz. But the article said it only goes to 112. Maybe it's because I have an updated BIOS.

In any case, I couldn't get my computer to completely load up. So I tweaked it to the lowest possible jump and set it to mode 2, for a 105MHz FSB. So my 700s are now running at 733. And this is what I'm running now. No problems so far. The CPU temps are only running 1-3 degrees Celsius hotter than when they were at 700. I'll try a higher FSB setting once I get some more reliable RAM (right now, I've got a pair of mismatched generic 128MB PC100 sticks) and more cooling. I'm seriously considering a water-cooled rig... That would be truly bad-ass. =)