Why won't my Athlon (Classic) 800Mhz run at 900+Mhz??

[BurnedOverclocker]

I use a GFD and have set the multiplier to 8,5 and the vCore to 1,85.
I am using a GlobalWin VOS32 cooler.
FSB is at 100 MHz DDR...
If i change the MP to 9,0 my PC boots but upon entering Windows i get BSODs and other nasty errors
I don't know WHY!!!
i think that my CPU should easily be able to handle 900Mhz......

i tried everything imaginable
to no avail
the farthest i can go is 880Mhz but only if i set the FSB to 110 and the MP back to 8

PLEASE HELP ME

any advice would be highly appreciated

thx

 

[spamboy]

The classic Athlons just don't overclock above 800 very reliably, sorry. If you want to go higher, you'll have to get a new motherboard and a Duron/Thunderbird. Some people can get the SlotA's to 900 or higher, but it's not a sure thing. The core was just too close to its limit already.

Of course, you wouldn't have this problem if you'd bought Intel in the first place... Haha, just kidding, I don't want to start that arguement all over again.

 

[BurnedOverclocker]

hehe

DAMN
but 850 is pretty fast anyways.....
912 was the maximum i could get out of the CPU and boot
everything above that
no go

well
it can't be helped
until my next update 850 will be quite sufficient

thx anyhow
cu

 

[cabojoe]

I believe that you may need to set your L2 cache speed down to 1/3. Which mobo are you using? 900 should be easy.

Athlon 850 @ 1028 1/3 L2 1.95 volts
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