if u have $250, spend it on an xp1800 (it's much easier to find a t-bred b 1800 than 1700 and it's almost the same price), abit nf7-s, thermalright sk7+ w/tt smartfanII, and the rest goes to a new case... just make sure it has decent airflow
first, very very few motherboards supporting the most current cpus also support pc133 sd-ram
but if you compare, let's say, the difference between pc133 and pc2100 in an old athlon cpu (ie. athlon 1.33) with one using pc133 and the other one using pc2100, the real-world difference is about...
thanks for the input
i wanted to run my system at a higher fsb if i could because a 14x multiplier seems kinda high
and i haven't seen anyone around here using such a high multiplier
so at each intermediate setting, how long i should test the system before declaring the fsb or the multiplier as "stable"?
and the memory runs at 2.6v default, and can run up to 2.9v... should i still stick to 2.7v as the limit?
i've been running prime95 tests on my new rig to see how fast it can go and achieve pretty good stability
i thought i was doing pretty well when i was able to clock my xp1800+ @ 2.4ghz (183x13.5) and run all the sandra tests, but it gave an error on prime95 testing after 2 hours
i read the...
The above setting froze after 1.5 hours of prime95 (i think my OS is pretty screwed also after all these OC adjustments), so i tuned it back down to 176*13 ~ 2.3ghz @1.7v for now
i don't know what adjustments i should make to make my system rock-solid stable at higher speeds (2.4ghz or so)...
thx for the link
i decided that the smart fan I wasn't enough, so i went out and grabbed a vantec tornado and swapped everything from the raidmax case i was using into a lian li pc60 case that i have for my old rig
now i'm getting much better results
it's running at 176mhz*13.5 ~ 2.39ghz...
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