Posts by Arthur Martin9

Honestly, I’m leaning toward the idea that the card was already clocked that high right out of the box—it's the only thing that actually makes sense to me here.

Alright folks, I have a question regarding my x1650pro—I can't seem to push the overclock even by a single clock cycle without the image immediately turning into a blurry mess. Given that the clock speed is already quite high, is it possible that this specific card comes pre-set at its maximum factory clock? Or am I looking at some kind of built-in protection mechanism preventing further scaling?

cosmicorca20 said:I was wondering if there are any table tennis clubs in Miami? I'm looking to get into training—hopefully it's not too late since I'm only 17.😛🙄

http://www.aurora-vikktor.net/stolni_tenis.htm Check this out.

Can anyone point me toward a solid club in LA for training? I’m 18 and looking to join up with a buddy of mine—he’s 20—so we can train together and play doubles. We’ve already got some great chemistry; he actually played singles for his high school team back in the day... so we're a pretty established duo. If you have any leads, please shoot me a PM.
Thanks!

I have a question regarding an old EliteGroup 775 socket motherboard I've been messing around with. I previously tried installing an Intel Core i7 on it—well, more accurately, I messed up the orientation and fried the chip. Now I'm wondering how I can verify if the motherboard is actually still functional. Specifically, I want to know if there's any way to test it before I drop a new CPU in, just to make sure I don't end up burning through another processor. Is there any realistic chance this board survived the mishap? I didn't seat the CPU correctly and ended up shorting it out... any advice would be appreciated.

Bryan Sanchez86, thanks for the advice 🙂 I’ll give it a shot on the Intel Chipset, though I have a feeling it won't hold up—meaning it probably won't even make it to the macOS desktop 🙂

ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES

Hard Disk Boot Priority
First Boot
Second
Third
Boot Up floppy Seek (Disabled)
Display Settings (AGP) PCI

INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS

IDE Function Setup
On-Chip Primary PCI IDE (ENABLE)
On-Chip Secondary PCI IDE (ENABLE)
On-Chip LAN (nVidia) Auto
On-Chip LAN BOOT ROM (Disabled)
USB Host Controller (V1.1+V2.0)
USB Keyboard Support (DISABLED)
USB Mouse Support (Disabled)
Serial ATA 2 (Internal PHY) ENABLE
AC97 AUTO
Onboard Serial Port 1 (3F8/IRQ4)
Onboard Serial Port 2 (2F8/IRQ3)
Onboard Parallel Port (378/IRQ7)
Parallel Port Mode (SPP)
ECO Mode Use DMA 3 (locked - I can't touch this one)
IDE DMA transfer (ENABLE)

POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP

ACPI Suspend Type (S1(POS))
Soft-off by PWR-BTTN (instant-off)
PME Event Wake Up (Disabled)
Modem Ring On (Disabled)
S3 Resume by USB device (Disabled)
Resume by Alarm (Disabled)
Power On by Mouse (Disabled)
Power On by Keyboard (Disabled)
AC BACK Function (Soft-off)

PnP/PCI Conf.
PCI 3 IRQ Assignment (auto)
PCI 4 IRQ Assignment (auto)
PCI 1/5 IRQ Assignment (auto)
PCI 2 IRQ Assignment (auto)

PCI 3 IRQ ASSIGNMENT
AUTO-assign IRQ to PCI 3 (default value)
3,4,5,7,9,10,11,12,14,15 set IRQ 3-15 to PCI 3
It's the same for these other three—I have no clue what they actually do.
PC HEALTH STATUS

Vcore OK
DDR25V OK
+3.3V OK
+12V OK
CPU WARNING TEMP- (currently at 60 degrees)
CPU FAN Fail Warning enable
System Fan fail warning enable

When I head over to the Frequency/Voltage Control section in the BIOS...
-I see these options:
CPU Overclock in MHz: 200 is default, but right now I've got it sitting at 238.
AGP Overclock in MHz: 66 is the default.
K8 CPU Clock Ratio Default
VDDQ (AGP) Voltage Control Normal
DDR voltage control Normal

The motherboard manual claims I can push the CPU Overclock anywhere from 200MHz up to 455MHz.

K8 CPU CLOCK RATIO
x4 800MHz - x10 2000MHz

CPU Voltage
Normal
+5%
+7.5%
+10%

VDDQ (AGP) Voltage Control
Normal
+0.1v
+0.2v
+0.3v

DDR Voltage control
Normal
+0.1v
+0.2v

Look, I'm no genius, so what should I actually do here? For instance, if I bump the CPU up to 250, will the system even boot? I'm worried about frying something or just ending up with no video signal at all. I know you can sometimes overclock a PC to a frequency where it won't start, forcing you to flash the BIOS or something, but my board doesn't have a jumper near it for that... So, I don't know, would pulling the CMOS battery work? Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.

And how exactly am I supposed to go about checking that?

Just wanted to toss in a few extra details

LGA 775 for Intel Core 2 processors
1600MHz system bus
Capable of supporting core frequencies well beyond an Intel Pentium + Celeron—it's quite fast

Look, I’m not exactly an expert when it comes to overclocking CPUs, locking down memory timings, or messing with the AGP port... I did read somewhere that someone actually managed to push this processor up to 2.4GHz, but honestly, I don't know—I'm a bit hesitant about whether I should risk breaking something or, heaven forbid, actually fry the chip or something like that..

The main issue is that I can't get past 238 in the BIOS while overclocking before the whole system just crashes. Maybe I should try bumping up the voltage? I’m really out of my depth with how voltage actually works—it's my first time even considering it... If only it were like overclocking graphics cards where you just tweak the max memory or GPU clock by maybe 5-10% and call it a day. I think my cooling setup is decent enough, but who knows what kind of headroom I actually have since I haven't pushed it past its current 1.9GHz limit..

Can someone help me out here? I'm running an AMD Athlon 2800+ and Sempron combo, currently sitting at 1.9GHz—is there any way I can bump this up to, say, 2.2GHz? I've got five fans in my case keeping things cool; temperatures in Windows hover around 36 degrees Celsius, though when I'm sitting in the BIOS, they fluctuate between 24 and 27.

I'm using a GA-K8NS motherboard
with an NVIDIA nForce3 250 chipset

By default, it runs at 1.6GHz

When I dig into the BIOS under Frequency/Voltage Control
- I see these options:
CPU OverClock in MHz: defaults to 200, but right now I'm at 238
AGP OverClock in MHz: 66 by default
K8 CPU Clock Ratio Default
VDDQ (AGP) Voltage Control: Normal
DDR voltage control: Normal

The motherboard manual claims I can set the CPU OverClock anywhere from 200MHz to 455MHz

K8 CPU CLOCK RATIO
ranging from x4 at 800MHz up to x10 at 2000MHz

CPU Voltage
Normal
+5%
+7.5%
+10%

VDDQ (AGP) Voltage Control
Normal
+0.1v
+0.2v
+0.3v

DDR Voltage control
Normal
+0.1v
+0.2v

Could someone please point me in the right direction here? I’ve been reading online that it's possible to handle this through Premiere, but I'm completely stuck on the actual process—how does one even go about it? I’m currently running version 1.4.13 of Virtual Dub, and despite trying just about everything I can think of, I haven't made any progress...

Thanks in advance for the help!

I've got an ATI Radeon X1650 Pro—unfortunately, it's the 64-bit version with 256MB of DDR2. Right now, I'm monitoring the clocks via the ATI-tray tools at
:
BIOS GPU 600
BIOS MEM 400

CURRENT GPU 594
CURRENT MEM 796 (1593 DDR)

I was wondering what this means regarding the Overclocking Method—it says "Software-based overclocking" but it's grayed out, which implies I can't change anything there at all.
Is that right?
🙂 I seem to remember my old 9550 being incredibly flexible—I could push the clocks way up—but with this card, if I try to bump it up by even one increment or drop it by one, the screen just goes haywire. All I see is a bunch of dots. Does that mean overclocking isn't an option here? I have this nagging feeling that this card might already be factory overclocked or something... is that actually possible?

I forgot to mention that this is a PowerColor model... and honestly, even on benchmarks, it's pulling a higher score than my old OC 9550. My only real advantage is that this thing has Pixel shader 3.0, so I can actually run some newer games that the 9550 couldn't handle.

Also, does this specific card support ATI Overdrive and CrossFire?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!