Warning: If you have no idea what your doing..
Do the following at your OWN RISK!
Don't blame me if you fuck up your machine...
But if you do fuck it up send me an email and I
will try to help you. If you send me an email
telling me you tried setting your Athlons FSB to
266MHz I'm going to find a way to bitch slap you
for wasting
my time!
Warning: If you have a poorly cooled cpu/case
you shouldn't try this till you get a better HSF
(heatsink-fan) or some other better cooling
method.. such as water cooling and move a lot of
air through the case. I personally don't like
pelteirs as though they cool the cpu well...
they create a lot of heat in the case which can
cause even more problems. I feel refrigerated
water cooling is the most effective and as a
plus people who don't like loud pcs water
cooling is much more quiet. I also like the idea
of refrigerated air. Why? Well air is an almost
perfect insulator. This is why you will find the
use of "dead air" (air trapped in a confined
space) in construction of
buildings/houses/other. Air's thermal
conductivity is about 7000 times less than that
of aluminum and about 13123 times less than that
of copper (for the record I like copper hsf). So
for air to be an efficient cooling device it
needs to be quite an amount cooler/colder than
the air in the case and around the cpu. If
you're scared to use water cooling because of
the chance of a water leak trashing everything
in your system you can make use of an inert
liquid from 3M designed for heat
transfer called hydrofluoroether. It does not
conduct electricity and is non-corrosive so if
it was to leak out onto parts inside your
computer everything is ok. Sadly
hydrofluoroether cost in excess of $200 usd per
gallon.
Special thanks to: Piotr Mitros and his info
about air flow when using Fanless Heatsinks. The
people at MIT who tested the thermal
conductivity of many various materials and for
posting their findings on the Thermal Properties
of Materials page.
Notes: The use of fanless heatsinks is not
recommended for overclocking! Piotr is using one
of the newer low power, 0.15 micron core, Via C3
866MHz CPU. Which run rather cool compared to a
0.13 Northwood core P4 or the older 0.18
Willamette core P4 and A LOT cooler than an 0.18
Thunderbird/Palomino and 0.13 Thoroughbred cored
Athlons. Granted those cpus are running at a
much faster clock speed than the 866 C3. (x.xx
micron core refers to the size of the
transistors on the core.)
Cooling Notes: Where as better cooling will help
you overclock your machine more efficiently. How
ever there is a limit that each CPU will run at,
and there is a point that no matter how much you
cool your machine and everything in it.. that it
just wont go any farther. Cooling isn't the
"god" of answers people like to think it is.
Download H.Oda's SoftFSB 1.7 Final
Here
Download H.Oda's SoftFSB 1.7 G1
Here
Download the SoftFSB Plug-Ins
Here
Download H.Oda's Windows CPU Clock 1.3
Here
Click the link to download SoftFSB 1.7 Final or
G1 Beta.
Inside the zip is a readme.txt in 4 different
languages.
Have fun overclocking. If you have a copy of
SoftFSB v2.x
please send it to me and I will post it up here.
My email address can be found in "about".
NOTE!: Most new computers/motherboards made in
the past 2~3 years chances are using PLL-IC's
not supported under SoftFSB as H.Oda stopped
working on it at the end of 1999 start of 2000.
Click Here for a program that supports most new
motherboards.
Note: Both SoftFSB and WCPUCLK are not
supported/offered by H.Oda anymore.
Tips on using SoftFSB
This was posted on the H-Oda BBS.
1032
Title: need softfsb?
Posted: 2002/03/27 11:33:21 (JST-9)
User: redrum - ganzaprime at yahoo.com
Message:
Hi, it seems like this app is hard to get? I'll
send it if anybody wants.
Maybe if I help you, you can give me a clue
about using it.
I'm not that advance but I'd like to oc these 5
mmx333 boxes that I have.
My Reply: Good thing is that those are older
machines so they should be supported under
SoftFSB. If not CPUCool/CPUfsb may or you may be
able to overclock via the BIOS or Jumpers on the
motherboard.
SoftFSB is quite easy to use. After downloading
it and extracting it to its final location run
sfsb17f.exe it will extract all of the the
needed files to that dir. Run SoftFSB.exe, it
will look like this...
There aren't that
many options. First click on the "Target
Mainboard" Radio Button and pick your mainboard
from the drop down list.
If you don't see
your mainboard in the list (chances are you wont
if your on a newer computer) you will need to
select your PLL-IC. Click on the "Target Clock
Generator" Radio Button and pick your PLL-IC
from the drop down list. If you dont know your
PLL-IC Check Here for help on finding it. Note:
its quite small and hard to read... so have a
light near by.
If your PLL-IC
isn't supported chances are your out of luck, but
you could always try CPUCool/CPUfsb or the old
way of changing the Front Side Bus with in the
motherboards BIOS or jumpers on the motherboard.
Notes: Even if your motherboard/PLL-IC is
supported there is a chance that it has been
modified so that it can not be changed (such is
my case with this machine). Most computers made
by major retailers (such as but not limited to:
Dell, IBM, Compaq, HP, eMachines, Sony, and
Toshiba) can not be modified by programs like
SoftFSB/CPUCool/CPUfsb or by the BIOS or Jumpers
on the motherboard. This isn't always the case...
you will just have to try a process of trial and
error. Now that you have your Motherboard/PLL-IC
selected click "Get fsb" and it will now show
your current FSB and the speed at which the PCI
bus is running at.
Now adjust the
sliders to your target FSB. You should only move
it up one step at a time.
Now click "Set FSB".
If all goes well
you will see your current cpu internal clock
speed move up (ie., from 467.7MHz to 476MHz
this is what would happen on this machine if I
could modify the pll-ic). If not you may want to
play with
the options and change the type of access used..
this part is all trial and error.. so good luck.
The tasktray button will place SoftFSB in the
system tray in your task bar.
You can also
download CPUCool/CPUfsb from
http://www.podien.de
Which is newer than SoftFSB but is Shareware
(13$).
Help for using this program can be found on the
creators site.
Also you might try setting the Multiplier and/or
Front Side Bus from your BIOS or Jumpers on your
Motherboard. That's usually a better way to do
it. Check Overclockers.com for a database of
other peoples overclocks and get an idea of
about what you may be able to overclock to. As
with all CPUs you may be able to overclock 50%
or no more than 10%.
Coming soon: Help on how to overclock using the
BIOS and/or Jumbers on the motherboard. Yes it's
simple but many people seem to need help with
it.
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