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Overclocking Older Systems

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It seems like I have thousands of 486 junker computers. These computers are great for small tasks that do not require high speeds. Although it may seem pointless, I'm over clocking one of them. It is an AMD 486DX-4 100 Enhanced running at 120 (Benchmarked at P75) I was wondering if anyone had any info on how far I could go with this processor in Mhz and Voltage before I end up frying the chip completely. The motherboard is a MB-8433UUD Ver 3.1 with 16 meg ram and various other optional equipment. If anyone has any ideas please respond. Thanks

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by epepke

This is the sort of thing that separates the gods from the atheists. It's great.

Try this: Get some big, fat heat sinks and epoxy them to everything that gets warm. Get a blower with a hose and cut some more holes in the case for it to go through. If you can cool the air somehow, even if only by blowing it over ice or (better yet) dry ice, so much the better.

You'll probably get obvious soft errors before you fry the chip anyway.

by admin

but I'm running a 600 chip currently stable at 900.
you can possibly get to 133 or higher, but every chip is different.
Cooling is everything.
voltage is second.
Cool as much as possible and then raise speed until you get software errors then try raising the voltage a bit and keep going until you get unacceptable errors. Take it in small increments and then back off. Get a temp sensor and watch heat build up and it's relationship to errors. Keep good notes. 486 processors are pretty much free, so there is not much to lose. There are great articles everywhere on clocking. Just use your favorite search engine.

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