Utterly Loved NForce2 Motherboards !!!

[Zap]

OMG, I've been wire wrapping Intel CPUs for voltage for a while now, and avoiding Athlons after the days of the "pencil trick." Time to revisit Athlons now. Hmmm. wonder if it works for Tbred-A or Palaminos (article mentions XP 2400+, a Tbred-B). Cool! I learned something today.

 

[Mustanggt]

To think I wasted $90 on XMS 3200 C2 when I have a stick of good crucial 2100 sitting here That is great scores you are getting I dont think my 2100 could do that well.

 

[PlatinumGold]

btw, you can get a NEW alpha 8045 for much less here. i'm surprised there are still people on at that don't buy from these guys.

 

[Celstar]

Why get the alpha when you can get a SLK-800 for less at the same store?

 

[SFang]

Originally posted by: Celstar
Why get the alpha when you can get a SLK-800 for less at the same store?

Is there any review on how SLK-800 outperform alpha 8045 in heat spreading, Link please? Thanks.

 

[KingNine]

Well I'm impressed on how much youve squeezed out of you A7N8X SFang. I got one for Christmas and cant get much more than 140 out of it. I haven't done the wire unlock though. I might do that. I'm going to try and immitate your settings and see if I can push it as much as you did before unlocking. I noticed you had the multiplier set to 12.5. That is where mine is by default. If I open up the multiplier setting it doesn't go any higher than 12.5/13. How are you all getting up to 14 and 15? I'm using the 1001c bios because I haven't heard great things about the others. Is it true that the bios Evan used when reviewing is completely different than the ones we received??

Asus A7N8X deluxe
bios 1001c
AMD Athlon XP 2400+ (stock HSF)
Sparkle 350w PSU
2 Samsung Original PC2700 256mb (in both blue slots)
Gainward GeForce3 Ti200
Maxtop Case with Two cooling fans

 

[groebuck]

Here is a weird one for you - I got a combo for my brother for x-mas (2400+ and deluxe) I can run it all day @150 fsb 1.80 volts (runs cool too with Dr. Thermal but a bit loud of a fan) - So I read the 1001.e bios gives you the unlock feature of the other nforce2 boards (came with 1001.g bios - only higher mulitpliers and no changey - only fsb upping)...so I flashed it to 1001.e and I got all lower multipliers and I thought WHoOOOO - sure enough I can select 10, 11, 12, but nada it still stays locked at 15 (even though it says 10 in the bios) - So I figure I will flash it back to 1001.g since there is no reason not to and -- the lower multipliers, they are still there!!

Buttt--still no luck other than the fsb (I can get to 2.26 no problems stabile till the cows come home) but would like to hit the higher fsb speeds for the mem throughput...

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: SFang

Originally posted by: Celstar
Why get the alpha when you can get a SLK-800 for less at the same store?

Is there any review on how SLK-800 outperform alpha 8045 in heat spreading, Link please? Thanks.

HardOCP has it beating the PAL8045 by several degrees and inching out the Swiftech by about 2-3 degrees C.
Here's a link

 

[KingNine]

Well I thought I had my2400+ stable at 145 x15 with 1.7v but I recieved a couple of reboots on battlefield 1942. I think I have it pinned down now at 144 x15 with 1.725v. I have the memory synced and set to 6,2,2,2.5 and set at 1.8v. This gives me 2.16GHz with voltage low enough that I'm comfortable with. The Samsung PC2700 doesn't seem to push as high as everone else can push their PC2100's. I can get it and the chip to about 185 x13 but I have to volt it very high and slow the ram timmings way down. I don't thing the extremely small performance boost is worth it so I re-locked it and pushed the 144 x15. I might unlock it again when I upgrade from my GeForce3 Ti200. I'm just really impressed at how much better this mobo performes with the sync mode. I had the memory pushed to 120% but it ran better synced at the slower speeds.

 

[SFang]

Your 2400+'s potential will be unleashed only after you manually unlocked it.

The 12.5/13 multiplier works this way. If you did not unlocked the processor, it works at 13x ; if you unlocked the processor, it works at 12.5X.

My final stable processor speed is 2200Mhz@11.5X192FSB@1.825Vcore. A lot of people OCed much better than me with exact same setup, but I am satisfied already. Good Luck.