Posts by dustypilot23

Honda Civic Type R said:I think my CPU is acting kind of weird (it's a P4 Northwood at 2.4), so I bumped it up to 2.9GHz but the temps only went up by maybe 3 degrees while gaming, which feels off... I'm wondering if the temp sensor might be glitching out or if there's some other reason for that, especially since I'm just running a standard stock cooler...

Man, that P4 of yours could probably hit 3.4GHz without any issues at all..

I guess that chip is actually pretty solid for overclocking.. so this might just be totally normal 😉

Sean Nguyen said:Just figured I'd share a little win too... My Celeron 566 is running totally fine at 850 MHz on a Sockettek board, though I haven't pushed it any further than that. Right now I'm rocking a Sempron 2500+ 64-bit, which sits at 1.4 GHz normally, but it hits 1.9 GHz without any issues. I actually managed to bump it up to 2.1 GHz, but I guess I was a bit worried about pushing it that hard since some games started acting a little glitchy. The motherboard is an ASUS ROG Maximus

That Sempron 64 runs at 2.1 GHz for me just fine, staying around 43°C... I didn't even mess with the voltages or anything, and I've tried a few different ones, so don't sweat it too much... just go for it.

Try setting the FSB to 305*7 (if you have all your memory slots filled; if you're only using one stick, you might even hit 323*7), then just crank the HT multiplier to x3 and set the divider to DDR266 (133) and see what happens. 👍

It can definitely clear 2300, maybe if you tweak the voltages just a tiny bit. 😉

If you're running into trouble, it's probably just the memory divider or the HT settings being a bit off.
And honestly, it could be the board, since I'm not really sure how reliable that old Gigabyte stuff is, but yeah, that's about it.
😉

so, just curious, what kind of clock speed were you actually hitting when you overclocked it? 😁

Jason Harris2 said:So I’ve got this one candidate that might actually hit 4GHz on the PR, but I probably need a better cooler and I really don't feel like messing around risking my RAID array crashing 😁

Last time I had it clocked at 2400MHz, basically 220+11 on 1.60v using some generic RAM and a cooler from $17. It sat at 50 idle and hit 65 under full load.
Anyway, does anyone have a recommendation for a decent cooler for a GA-7NNXPV with DPS? Like, there’s zero clearance and no mounting holes on the board. Just my luck.😢

The Volcano 12 is a pretty solid air cooler for a mid-range price, and if you don't mind the noise, you can crank it up to 5000 RPM and it stays pretty cool 👍

I ran mine at 3000 and it felt just a tiny bit weaker than the Zalman 7000, but it was way cheaper.

4 GHz... man, that would be the dream. It's such a bummer it doesn't come with any real muscle behind it, you know? 😁

..anyway.. the memory seems solid, though I guess I really could use some decent sticks myself..

it's kind of killing me thinking about how I just randomly offloaded that Kingmax 500MHz hardcore kit the other day🙂

Kevin Gonzalez79 said:my Barton 2500 is running at 10.5 x 200

Core temp is sitting at 53C

latencies are 7, 2, 2, 2.5

and voltage is 1850

if I can tweak anything

maybe try dropping the voltage a bit... if you can

driftingnomad68 said:The board is a 3M 8k3a kt333

I don't think the CPU is unlocked, though...

For the cooling setup, I've got a Thermaltake Volcano 7 heatsink paired with a Spire WhisperRock fan...

Temps seem to be sitting right around 48-52 (maybe 48-55) at the moment

I mean, that cooler probably won't hold much of an overclock, honestly. And since that motherboard doesn't have any PCI/AGP locking, I'm not really sure how high you'll actually be able to push it. I guess you should just try making small adjustments and maybe be ready to clear the CMOS whenever things get a bit unstable. 😉

Mr.Ex.President said:I mean, if everything stays stable, you probably don't really need to...

You might get some higher temps out of it, though, and maybe—most likely—a higher clock speed too...🙂

As far as voltage goes, staying under 1.8 should be totally fine without any issues
up to 2.0 if you've got a decent cooler (like a Zalman, for example...)
You could even push it to 2.2 (kind of like what I did😁), but your idle temps will probably hit 70😁

Živija👋

at 2.2 😲 ..you better be cooling the northbridge too, hopefully even with water cooling😉

So, yeah..
You can bump the voltage up to 1.8 (but I wouldn't go much past that), but with that voltage, you should expect at least 2200 mhz, and just be ready for things to run hotter than usual

Which motherboard are you running again, driftingnomad68?

Leonard Nimoy~ said:👍

And honestly, dustypilot23, if I check out our domestic pro league sometimes, it’s actually not too bad. I mean, it’s just not something I watch all that often, I guess.

I’m pretty much glued to ESPN every single night, just watching the NBA action 😉

but hey, I gotta ask you, are you gonna show up at the courts to help us cheer a little? 😉

It’s just not really the same thing as watching it on TV, you know? 🙂

🙂

maybe the juniors or just the Ligase?

trust me, it’s way better, plus it doesn't even cost you anything👍

brightgull15 said:Come on, don't start with that. It’s not like some lady is gonna pop up and say "cpu overc. failed, please...."
I mean, I didn't get a polite message, I just got a totally black screen when I tried bumping that Barton (the non-m version) up to 200 FSB in the BIOS, so it wasn't exactly a gentle warning. It pissed me off so much I just ended up pulling the plug. <- so, as you can see, we're dealing with a deluxe model on this job.

heheee

that's all just for show... though it's kind of cool 😁

if you're just creeping up the MHz bit by bit, you probably won't hit a black screen 😁

just one thing though..

did that Barton actually work at 200 on any other motherboard?

yeah..

I guess the ASUS thing is actually pretty funny, especially when that lady on the speaker starts going on about how the CPU overclocking failed.. blah blah blah.. 😳 😳

😁

I'm running a 9600pro with a gig of RAM myself...

I'm pretty sure Far Cry absolutely eats RAM for breakfast, so you can bank on that being a factor.

Raymond Rodriguez40 said:I mean, I just don't get it... how is it even possible that on a rig with twice the power... Far Cry runs like absolute garbage, yet on this other machine with half-broken, mismatched memory that barely functions...

it just absolutely flies... running on VERY HIGH with 4x anisotropic filtering!!! pro 1024x768

I honestly can't wrap my head around the idea that AGP is somehow four times stronger, allowing the 6800 to actually show what it can do... it really makes you wonder... why bother upgrading at all?

Look..

I've got this massive 96kb 3D game right here, detail quality is basically old-school VGA level, six different weapons, and you can play it for hours (though you won't beat it in the end 😬 )

that's what we call optimization 😎

So, my other 60 GB IBM drive just totally died on me the other day 😁

I guess I got pretty lucky though, since I’d actually picked up a 200 GB Seagate just a week prior and managed to move all my data over in time 🙂

So, I've been rocking an ASUS a7n8x-e deluxe for a few days now 😳

I guess I'll just stay in my room and screw around, while out on the balcony I listen to 😬

AL 621

143 Watts IBM at 10% distortion
100 Watts IBM at 1% - // -

The thing is, they're absolute beasts, but honestly, the most important part is just how full and clean the sound is 🙂

Frank Grant said:Hey guys, sorry to throw an off-topic question out there, but I figured you all would probably be my best bet for an answer. So, basically🙂I recently picked up an Athlon 2600 XP box, an Asus A7N8X-X motherboard, and some DDR memory, though that’s kind of beside the point. The thing is, why are the temperatures shown in the BIOS so different from what I'm seeing in programs like PC PROBE or Aida 32????
I'm seeing about a 10 degree difference.
Anyway, when I'm just idling, Aida shows the CPU at 51 C and the motherboard at 27 C. When I start running something a bit more demanding, it climbs up to around 58-60 C.
Thanks for any help, and sorry again for the off-topic post. 👋

well maybe they aren't actually varying that much (it might just be the stock cooler combined with pretty mediocre airflow in the case, I guess)

brightgull15 said:I mean, we probably shouldn't start acting all high and mighty, right?

Since I consider myself a hardcore O'clocker, I guess I dropped a cool 500 bucks on my cooling setup just to match that energy.

and because of that, you get a way better clock 😉 👍

..and by that logic, I guess I have much better speakers too 🔉 😬