can i overclock with this motherboard

i have an old biostar m7mka motherboard with a AMD atholon 600MHz proccesor can i overclock it in any way and if so how. ive looked everywhere and i can find anything to tell me how or if i can. thx

 

The 600Mzh Athlon is an old Thunderbird 100fsb cpu. I had a 750 running on a Biostar M7VKB (also 100fsb) a while back. Frankly, there is not a whole lot you can do with that in my opinion. I seem to recall that the multi on those was locked so can only try to raise the fsb and I would imagine that 110 would be a limiting factor simply because the pci / agp buses would go out of wack. At 110fsb the pci bus would go from 33 to 36-37 beyond that point hdd data corruption would be a distinct possibility. Perhaps some better informed reader may offer better info.

Another reasonably cheap route would be to find out the max cpu that your board can handle and get one on ebay (make sure you know the mobo pcb version). I guess that they would not be very expensive. My old Biostar could handle a max cpu of 1.2Ghz (still at 100fsb & still a Thunderbird) and upgrade your current cpu. You would notice getting a 1.2Ghz cpu whereas going from 600 to 660Mhz by way of o/c would only be detected by benchmarking......To o/c you cpu just go into the bios and raise the fsb from the default 100. Just look through all the headings in the bios and you will find it easily.

Hope this helps

 

Another way to tell, is to see if your bios has changable setting (don't mess with them ) just check and see if it will allow you to manually change voltages, and stuff like that. Usually if a board is not overclock capable, you won't be able to change alot of these settings.

At least, that is the way it used to be.

 

ok thx, what would be the easiest way to find out what pocessors would it be able to handle.

 

Do a search or send biostar-usa support an email. Make sure that you have the mobo's PCB version which will be written on the motherboard itself.

In addition, provide them with the BIOS version which you are using in case yours in not the latest one. The bios version will flash up at post. You can pause the process to be able to note the dets down by pressing the 'pause' key on your k/b and then press the 'space' bar to continue the process....

Good luck