I recently bought a K62-350 for a very low price about 2 weeks ago. As soon as i bought it I upped it's speed to 400Mhz. It has been running well and stable at this speed since. However, today I decided to go one step further and decided to give it a go at 450Mhz, not even expecting it to POST. Well this was an hour ago, and everything seems fine and well and the CPU is only about as warm as a fast CD-ROM drive, perfectly ok to touch with bare skin.
My mobo is set to 100mhz with 64mb 100mhz ram, Banshee, UDMA33 bla bla bla. THe mobo is an Ali Alladin chipset which I have stuck a heatsink to the motherboards chipset also to help cooling. The case cover is also removed.

I was wondering, how usual is this and is it possible to take the cpu any higher than this, the step from 400-450 has improved all benchmark scores by about 22% which i think is quite significant.

Please let me know about your successes/complications with the AMDk62 350.

Thanks

TA-TEMPLAR

P.S. My chip has a stepping of 0C if this is any help.