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I am trying to overclock my old K6 (NOT K6-2, as in no 3D-NOW) as much
as possible to use it for an emu machine and to record TV shows w/ the
TV tuner card. The stock speed is 300 MHz and it's one of the new
(well, relatively) .25 micron K6 chips. First, would you recommend
lapping the heat spreader, which is definitely not too flat? Second,
it works at 338, POSTs and boots into Windows at 375 when there's a
good layer of Arctic Silver, but crashes before getting to the desktop
w/o Arctic Silver. The heatsink is never really that hot. With the
arctic silver, it takes a while to start making errors on my
overclocking tests. Does this sound like I need more volts or more
cooling?
Lastly, since I am really not that worried about frying this POS, I
tried raising the volts to 2.8, the next higher setting on my board
after 2.2. Doesn't POST, but isn't fried-works again when I put it
back down. Any ideas why it wouldn't POST at 2.8?
I am trying to overclock my old K6 (NOT K6-2, as in no 3D-NOW) as much
as possible to use it for an emu machine and to record TV shows w/ the
TV tuner card. The stock speed is 300 MHz and it's one of the new
(well, relatively) .25 micron K6 chips. First, would you recommend
lapping the heat spreader, which is definitely not too flat? Second,
it works at 338, POSTs and boots into Windows at 375 when there's a
good layer of Arctic Silver, but crashes before getting to the desktop
w/o Arctic Silver. The heatsink is never really that hot. With the
arctic silver, it takes a while to start making errors on my
overclocking tests. Does this sound like I need more volts or more
cooling?
Lastly, since I am really not that worried about frying this POS, I
tried raising the volts to 2.8, the next higher setting on my board
after 2.2. Doesn't POST, but isn't fried-works again when I put it
back down. Any ideas why it wouldn't POST at 2.8?