this problem could be the Duron 600 itself. Early Duron CPUs were not
designed to run as faster as later Duron. From Duron 750, you should be able
to overclock to 1Ghz or over without any problem (other than heat), but
early Duron may limited to 900/950mhz or even lower. My Duron 650 will
become unstable in DirectX game if I overclock it to 850 (core voltage
1.744v, if I rise it to 1.8v, it will be ok at 900mhz), after I belance
performance and heat, I run it at current 800mhz.

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gareth Cranny" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 10:32 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] ATHLON or Thunderbird safe operating temperature?


> My duron 600 runs at 1ghz all day long, at about 43C idle and 46 loaded
> (@1.849v).  Thats with the case open because I only have two 80mm fans in
> there just now, I'll be adding 3 120mm's tonight.
>
> If the temperature ever goes to 52, she'll lock up.  Anything over 50 and
I
> get some graphics glitches and anomolies, but it could be my v3 @ 178mhz.
> I'm just using the VIA HWM for temps, which uses the KT7-R's under chip
> thermistor.
>

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