[Gllug] Underclocking an Athlon

George F Saxby george at burner.saltmine.net
Wed Oct 3 00:09:33 UTC 2001


John,
 you can down clock it to 600MHz if the mobo allows fiddling




n Monday 01 October 2001 11:49, you wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 11:42:25AM +0100, Jackson, Harry wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > For all you overclockers out there this may be of some use.
> >
> > Download GIMPS and run the test if it fails reduce the clocking until it
> > does not. I done this on Saturday and reduced my 1GHz Athlon From 1.1GHz
> > TO 1050MHz before I could get it to work properly. I know clocking it to
> > 1.1GHz was a bit daft but I had to see how far I could take it.
> >
> > Regards;
> > Harry Jackson.
>
> As the big Athlons have a habit of being as hot as a burning coals
> when running in a small machine, is there any way to UNDERclock them
> (eg running a 1.4GHz at 1.2GHz) ?
>
> I would rather have a 10% slower machine than a dead machine.

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