Hardware News Net heeft klein overklok testje gedaan met drie Pentium 3 500E processors. Voor de test werd zowel een Abit BH6, BF6 als een Soyo SY-6VBA133 met Apollo Pro 133 chipset gebruikt. Met het laatstgenoemde bordje draaide het systeem stabiel met een FSB van 155MHz, wat neerkomt op een erg relaxte snelheid van 775MHz.
The first CPU was very easily overclocked. After initially booting at the 100Mhz FSB setting, the CPU was stepped up a few Mhz at a time until the max FSB setting of 155Mhz for the Soyo SY-6VBA133 motherbaord was reached. The Soyo SY-6VBA133 motherboard has an AGP clock divider of 2 and a PCI divider of 4 that helps keep the AGP and PCI bus speeds in a reasonable range. The voltage on this CPU was set on the Iwill Slocket II at 1.6v and never tweaked. Heat never became a problem with the CPU temperature running at 34.5C using the retail heatsink/fan.I was very pleased to see this CPU purr along at 775Mhz. The CPU, Soyo motherboard, 2 sticks of 64MB Corsair PC133 RAM, and other components in the system ran without any problems. No lockups, crashes, or any apparent problems. I have stated many times since the testing that the system has run the most stable of any Windows 95/98 system I have ever used. I now use this system for my everyday use and continue to get solid stability from it.