Overclocking

I was looking forward to the chance of getting to overclock again. Previously I had overclocked my P166 MMX to 200Mhz & with my newer P3 450Mhz PC I had got it up to 600Mhz, although due to an unfortunate turn of events (like the motherboard not having any reset jumpers & me blowing up the power unit) I’ve been without that system for a while, hmmmmm. As you can guess I was just that little bit more cautious this time.

Using the excellent (albeit slightly dated) Softmenu 2 I was able to get my board up a 124Mhz FSB. I was unable to get any higher as my hard drive wouldn’t take the 133Mhz FSB, which was slightly odd as at that speed a ¼ multiplier is used for devices. But anyway, my PC is now running perfectly stable at 558Mhz.

It seems a bit strange that Abit choose not to have included Softmenu 3 instead of Softmenu II. Still, an 110Mhz increase in system speed (25% or so in real terms) is quite a nice increase all the same. Using trusty old SiSoft again I re-ran the benchmarks taken earlier to show performance improvements in Memory, Drives, CPU & Multi-media benchmarks.

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