Carl,

My gut feeling on this is power.  One drawback to the AMD systems is they
require a little extra juice to keep them stable.  What kind of power supply
do you have?  AMD recommends nothing smaller than a 300W supply.

The other possibility is heat.  Do you have extra cooling?  And if so, how
much?  A Peltier(sp?) cooler would be the best bet (unless you wanted to
spend $500 on a Kryotech system and overclock your chip another 300-400Mhz).

It would help to have answers to these questions to more accurately diagnose
the problem.  One final possibility is just a lower grade chip that slipped
through the initial testing.

Regards,

Kyle Elmblade
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From: Carl Barnhart <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 5:37 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] AMD overclocking


> How high should a 900 AMD Athlon be able to run overclocked? I'm using
Abit's
> Ka7-100 motherboard with 128 megs of RAM.. I'm having trouble getting it
to
> run 100% stable with anything over about 970 Mhz. Anyone have any
expirience
> or knowledge about this?
>
> Carl Barnhart

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