stupid question time folks

[kahless]

I have a friend who was having some trouble with his computer locking up on him. He was running a 1700+ processor on a msi k7t motherboard. He tells me the only way he was able to solve the problem was to change the speed of the front side bus. No what started at a 1700 @ 1497 running a 200mhz front side bus is now truned into 1463mhz running at 133mhz. (changed the multiplier from 7.5 to 11). So i guess my question is by changing the fsb to 133 and then clocking the processor to run close to what it used to run at a 200 fsb will he be hurting his system? I know the heat might be an issue but he is running a vocano nine and does not seem to be heating too badly.(just an estimate by fan speed as he removed the sensor under the chip for processor temp like a moron) But i was wondering if there might be something else to consider? i will have to admitt logically speaking a 133mhz front side bus and pc133 ram should by all means be a clean pipe, however the processor is designed to run at 1500+/- with a 200 mhz fsb, with the 133fsb it is overclocked by almost 500mhz.Should i warn him of impending doom or am i just worried about nothing?

[fleppen]

worried about nothing probably, does the thing produce any more heat or require more voltage ?

[Dead_Parrot]

You're worried over nothing I'd say. I'm running a XP2000 on a Asus KT133 motherboard w/ FSB set at 133 at a 12.5 multiplier. The RAM (PC133) is what dictates my FSB setting. I did try bumping up my FSB at one time but like I said my RAM caused my system to crash. So unless your friend gets some PC150 RAM he is stuck at a 133 FSB.

And actually I think the 1700 is designed to run at a 266 FSB which is just a 133 doubled. (not sure about the engineering principles behind it all.)

[Davey_Pitch]

Originally posted by Dead_Parrot
You're worried over nothing I'd say. I'm running a XP2000 on a Asus KT133 motherboard w/ FSB set at 133 at a 12.5 multiplier. The RAM (PC133) is what dictates my FSB setting. I did try bumping up my FSB at one time but like I said my RAM caused my system to crash. So unless your friend gets some PC150 RAM he is stuck at a 133 FSB.

And actually I think the 1700 is designed to run at a 266 FSB which is just a 133 doubled. (not sure about the engineering principles behind it all.)

It might not be the ram causing the problem. When you increase the FSB you also increase the PCI Bus speed, and if you have a component in there which is sensitive to the increase (such as a PCI modem, or soundcard) then your system can lock up. :)