Just wanted to say Whatz Up, Glad to see more and more members. That means more and more FIEROS and if your a part of this fourm if you don`t then you will have a MONSTER Ride!! Can you feel the fever???

PS. I tried to get the profiles of some of the new members to see their locations but I could not get in. Is it my machaine??

Well, I see that one of our esteemed members lives in San Francisco and is interested in cars, basketball, and money.

Does that answer your question?

Ok, Ok, might be time to upgrade the machine??

Could be upgrade time...Maybe a NOS kit?

Hey DXR_DAD where are you located. If I'm not mistaken you are in the San Francisco Bay Area. If you are then I know who you are. Am I correct. By the way I have been a member for a long time but have not been active until just now.

We talk about hotrodding our Fieros all the time and since you mentioned computer upgrades, well... I've hotrodded my custom built computer. In computer geek terms it's called overclocking. I have a Intel Celeron 300 MHz CPU chip (4.5X locked multiplier) that I'm running on a 100 MHz bus speed (normally 66 MHz) which produces a clock speed of 450 MHz. More power in true hotrod tradition. Anybody else in the forum tried overclocking their computers? This is actually my third successful overclocking attempt and my best. I've been running this setup since last February.

I'm running an Amd k-6 300mhz chip that I will occasionaly run at 350 or 400, but it'll give me errors sometimes so I usually don't.. I find that custom building a computer is the only way to do it. more power!

Regardless of my overclocking, the car just won't GO any faster! What gives???

Batboy, I have my C366 running at 550Mhz without a problem. Only on hot days it needs extra cooling. Kinda like my Fiero (to keep it Fiero-related )!

Hey Cliff, I'm one notch up on you. I have my C366 running stable at 567 MHz at 2.0 volts. I tried it at 612 MHz, but even at 2.3 volts it wouldn't load Windows.

My other hobby, besides keeping the Fiero running, is shooting and editing video. With non-linear editing, you can't beat brute processing power for rendering.

Cooling is always a concern when you're overclocking. I have a triple fan and massive heat sink on my CPU), a front case fan, and an expansion slot fan in the back. Of course, it also has the normal power supply fan too. Wow, you guys or getting 550 or better out of a Celery 366? I'm impressed! I've got my 300A to run 464 using the turbo mode on my Abit BH6, but never could run it stable at 504 MHz. It would boot, but then lock up in the windows start-up everytime.

I bet your computers sound like a jet engine now....and you cant leave loose papers on your desk when you boot your machine.

You have to wonder if 'Hot Rodding' in the future will be cryocooling the processor in your dash, so you can overclock it....

Wouldn't it be nice if making your Fiero go faster would be just as easy? (notice my pathetic attempts to keep this Fiero-related?)

Patrick: my C366 runs stable @ 550/2.0V. If I enable the turbo option it'll only go to 556 but it will not boot then. I'm content though with 550!

Batboy: I've seldomly heared of a 300A go over 450, but it could be that any of your plug-in cards don't like the non-standard (over 66) busspeed.

(Ok, I got the words Fiero, Turbo and Speed in one message - now I don't have to kick myself of the forum!)

YES!!! It's me FieroShop Just got a E-mail from Ray. I've been on this fourm for a good amount of time, almost from it's birth. This is where most of all my help comes from.

Cliff, I have a co-worker that runs his Celeron 300A at 504 MHz., but not many will do that. I've heard that 80% or more of the 300 chips will overclock to 450. Any idea on the percentage of 366 chips running at 550? I thought that it was a fairly low probability, but I'm hoping I heard wrong.

DXR_Daddy, overclocking is not all that hard to understand. To figure out the clock speed of your computer, you need to know the bus speed and the CPU multiplier number. The two standard bus speeds are 66 and 100 MHz, but some motherboards have a larger range of possible bus speeds. Motherboards have jumper pins (or in the case of my Abit board--you can change all this in the bios) to change bus speed and CPU multiplier so that you can upgrade to a different CPU chip if you want.

For example: my 300 MHz chip has a 4.5 multiplier and is supposed to run at 66 MHz clock speed (4.5 X 66 = 300). By changing to a bus speed of 100 MHz (4.5 X 100 = 450) I'm running my 300 MHz computer at 450 MHz. I have a much cheaper 450 because I only paid for a 300 chip. Does that make sense? There are drawbacks to this...not all chips will overclock, some will not be stable when you overclock them, you void your warranty (if they find out), and you run a slight risk of damaging your CPU, especially if it gets too hot. Overclocking class dismissed.

Just think, until I read all this overclocking stuff I was perfectly happy with my Dual Pentium Pro 200 system. It might be time to drag that dual P2 board out of the closet and slap in a couple of CPU's. Let's see, 2 p2's at 500 mhz each. . .

Thanks Batboy, but I think I will leave the CPU stuff to DXR_MOM. She's good with that stuff. I think she`s getting us a new one soon.

Batboy, from week 25 and up, the C366 has an almost 100% successrate of running at 550. Some with extra voltage, some with extra cooling, but they all seem to do 550.

Or higher...

I feel the need...the need for speed! Whether behind the wheel of one of my streetrods or Fieros or even sitting at my computer. I'll have to look into this Celery 366 thing some more. A friend has one of those 366 chips that he bought early last spring, but he can't overclock it at all. Maybe it's one of those "before week 25" chips. Thanks for the info, I learn stuff all the time on this Forum. Even non-Fiero stuff.

I wish that we would have had this discussion last spring before I bought my 450MHz P2.....

The money I saved could have gone into my Fiero. (threw the car in so Cliff would stay happy!)

DJRice, that is exactly why I went this path instead of buying a P3/550. It saved me a good $800 or so which nicely pays for my Fiero's brake repair next week!

So how exactly do we overclock a v6 to 500HP