Software Overclocking

[Turkish]

I read this excellent blurb from [H]ardocp (www.hardocp.com).

And the program is called ClockGen and it's made by the creators of CPUiD.

Here's a cut and paste...

The ClockGen serie consists in a set of overclocking softwares, each of them being dedicated to one or several motherboards. A ClockGen software allow to dynamically overclock several devices of your system : CPU, memory, AGP and PCI bus. Please refer to Supported Hardware to get the version for your particular motherboard.
ClockGen is compatible with Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4, 2000 and XP.


Get the file here (http://www.cpuid.com/clockgen.php)!

[-F7]

Nice! Have you used it yet? I'd be interested to get a firsthand opinion from someone I trust when it comes to hardware/software.

[Turkish]

Steve from [H]ardOCP fame says he likes the program.

But if you scroll down the page somewhat you'll see a list of compatible motherboards and the file you need to download.

My (slightly) new Asus A7M266 isn't supported :(

Could anyone else answer F7's burning question (mine too).

[Salyavin]

Could anyone else answer F7's burning question (mine too).I tried it out on my already oc'ed system: P4 2.4C @ 3.2 w/ 266 FSB in an Asus P4P800. It appears to do the same thing that oc'ing with the BIOS does on P4 systems, i.e. it increases the FSB frequency. It can't change the bus multiplier because P4 processors are ratio locked.

Clockgen has a slider that I bumped up in steps while running 2x Prime95, which started to error at 275 FSB/3.3GHz core. Setting it back down to 266/3.2 and exiting the program seemed to have no ill effects. I wouldn't set the slider to the end and expect it to work though. :) AGP and PCI are locked at 66/33, so you need to check a box and tweak those separately (if you want to). I didn't try that as I've read that relatively few components are tolerant of PCI oc'ing.

Most of the boards on the supported list are Springdale or Canterwood chipset boards that already support FSB oc'ing in the BIOS, so I figure Clockgen is mostly a convenience. You can test oc increments w/o having to reboot. Bump it up until you start getting errors and then set the highest stable point in the BIOS. Clockgen doesn't allow you to tweak the core voltage or memory timings, which is a also a part of getting the best oc, so you'll have to do that in the BIOS anyway. (Be VERY careful with the voltage.) Nor is there a temperature measurement so keep PCProbe or MBM handy.

Cheers,
Salyavin

[Turkish]

Thanks for that wonderful info Salyavin.

:p