Hardware News Net heeft een informatief artikel gepost waarin ze de overclocking resultaten bespreken van vier P3-500E en twee P3-550E processors. In het stuk worden de problemen van een aantal gebruikers naar voren gebracht en wordt uitgelegd hoe ze het zaakie uiteindelijk stabiel aan de praat hebben gekregen. Hieronder vast een voorbeeld:
Dylan Thomas passed along his results and a solution that worked for him. His system consisted of a PIII 550E, an AOpen X63 pro with the rev 52 latest BIOS for coppermine support, a Quantum KX 15GB UATA66 hard drive, Panasonic 10X DVD, Creative Labs GeForce DDR with the memory overclocked to 330Mhz and the core at 130Mhz.His system originally had a PIII 500 (Katmai) runing at 600Mhz with a FSB speed of 120Mhz for weeks without a single lockup. After noticing a local reseller with some returned PIII 550Es, he bought one along with an Iwill Slocket II and "went for it."
His new system would boot at 733Mhz, but would lockup or give corrupt data file messages when he tried to run 3DMark 2000. Scan registry would also occasionally detect problems on Windows bootup. Even at 115Mhz on the FSB 3DMark 2000 would not run. However, running actual games would not produce any problems.
After trying to diagnose the problem for hours, he finally noticed that at the start of the benchmark it would freeze on the transfer from the hard drive to RAM. After using a utility from Quantum's web site, he was able to set his hard drive to act as a UDMA33 drive and not a UDMA66 drive. This allowed him to run rock solid at 852Mhz. To make sure the hard drive change was the fix, he renabled the UDMA66 and the system locked again.
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