What are the specs on your PC?
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Pearl Jammzz
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Mal, to up a 2500+ to a 3200+ all you do is move the FSB from 166>200(it runs like DDR.....so 166=333, 200=400). If you do this, and then get an Nforce2 board (LOVE the onboard sound...would reccomend the deluxe version of the board) which is suppost to be the best board for that CPU. Also, if you get PC3200 ram (runs at 400mhz) it's suppost to sync w/ the CPU and give you a great boost in speed. This is what I have done on my stock machine (no extra cooling yet) and it is stable as can be. Of course, I have yet to do any hardcore gaming on it yet, but it's been up pretty solid since I put it together on christmas.
After I put in my intake fans, and put on my HS and get a fan for it, I am gunna up the speed a lil' more....get it to like a 2.6ghz. Once it's there (and I hear it's pretty easy to achieve those speeds w/o much cooling and still run great) I think that's all the OC'ing I am going to do on it, it's all ya really need IMO. If you have any more questions about it Mal, I'd be glad to help. Just PM me
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After I put in my intake fans, and put on my HS and get a fan for it, I am gunna up the speed a lil' more....get it to like a 2.6ghz. Once it's there (and I hear it's pretty easy to achieve those speeds w/o much cooling and still run great) I think that's all the OC'ing I am going to do on it, it's all ya really need IMO. If you have any more questions about it Mal, I'd be glad to help. Just PM me
.Hm.. I don't really know what to say.... whether I'm proud to be among the four Mac Users (that I know of anyway) of the board, or just.. bah....
Cloud121
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IUG
it290
We are l33t! :lol: :thumbs-up:
Wait... did I really just type l33t?! Oh god... what is wrong with me....
Edit: Now where are the Amiga users? 
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Cloud121
Lockecole2 (My Bitch :lol: )
IUG
it290
We are l33t!
:lol: :thumbs-up: Wait... did I really just type l33t?! Oh god... what is wrong with me....
Edit: Now where are the Amiga users?
:thumbs-up:Scared0o0Rabbit
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yeah when I run my 2500 bartons whenever I get around to buying them, unfortunately all my overclocking will have to be with multipliers, cause of the limitations of the athlon MP.
Scared0o0Rabbit
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yeah I did that to one of my friends recently, he was so anti pc! Needless to say, since hten I've built him 2 pc's lol. He'd like to own a better mac too, but they're just so damn expensive. Anyone looking to convert a mac user, get them hooked on a pc only mmorpg, and they'll never look back. That's what I did lol.
Desktop
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AMD Athlon XP 2600+ 333FSB
Abit AT7-MAX2 Mobo
1024MB Corsair PC2700 XMS Low Latency (two 512 TwinX w/ Black Heatspreader)
Leadtek Winfast A280 GF4 Ti4200 128MB 8X AGP
SB Audigy 2 ZS Platinum
80GB Western Digital HDD (C: WinXP Pro [50GB] - D: Linux Mandrake 9.1 [30GB]) in a Cooler Master 4002 5.25 bay cooler
240GB Western Digital SATA (E: ) two 120GB SATA in RAID 0
16X Sony DVD-ROM (F: )
40x12x40 Samsung CD-R/RW (G: )
All cased in an Enermax CS-001 case lined with Akasa Acoustic Absorption Matting fitted with three 80mm Vantec Stealth fans and a Vantec Stealth 420W PSU
Spare Compy
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AMD Athlon 1.33 GHz 266FSB
BioStar M7MIA Mobo
512MB Kingston PC2100
Chaintek GF4 MX440 64MB 4X AGP
SB Live! Platinum
Comms-Link Card (ISA)
40GB Western Digital HDD (Win98SE)
48x24x48x16 Sony CD-R/RW-DVD-ROM
Laptop
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Sony VAIO PCG-FX210
AMD 800MHz Duron
512MB Kingmax TinyBGA PC100 memory (256x2)
Some 8MB ATI GFX chip
9GB 4200RPM HDD (WinXP Pro - was a BIZITCH to upgrade from WinME)
4X DVD-ROM
~Krelian
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AMD Athlon XP 2600+ 333FSB
Abit AT7-MAX2 Mobo
1024MB Corsair PC2700 XMS Low Latency (two 512 TwinX w/ Black Heatspreader)
Leadtek Winfast A280 GF4 Ti4200 128MB 8X AGP
SB Audigy 2 ZS Platinum
80GB Western Digital HDD (C: WinXP Pro [50GB] - D: Linux Mandrake 9.1 [30GB]) in a Cooler Master 4002 5.25 bay cooler
240GB Western Digital SATA (E: ) two 120GB SATA in RAID 0
16X Sony DVD-ROM (F: )
40x12x40 Samsung CD-R/RW (G: )
All cased in an Enermax CS-001 case lined with Akasa Acoustic Absorption Matting fitted with three 80mm Vantec Stealth fans and a Vantec Stealth 420W PSU
Spare Compy
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AMD Athlon 1.33 GHz 266FSB
BioStar M7MIA Mobo
512MB Kingston PC2100
Chaintek GF4 MX440 64MB 4X AGP
SB Live! Platinum
Comms-Link Card (ISA)
40GB Western Digital HDD (Win98SE)
48x24x48x16 Sony CD-R/RW-DVD-ROM
Laptop
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Sony VAIO PCG-FX210
AMD 800MHz Duron
512MB Kingmax TinyBGA PC100 memory (256x2)
Some 8MB ATI GFX chip
9GB 4200RPM HDD (WinXP Pro - was a BIZITCH to upgrade from WinME)
4X DVD-ROM
~Krelian
The BARTON Athlons over clock very well. Mine went up from 166 to 200 FSB. It could do even more easily but I have one of the pre 2.0 A7N8X boards so over 200 FSB becomes unstable. If I had a 2.0 mobo I could probably go as high as 220 FSB. And my ram could handle it too. Remember though if you are gonna overclock to get ram that will be able to keep up.
As for the memory speeds 3200 DDR ram is basically rated to go at a maximum of 3200 MB/s. With my setup I get around 3000 MB/s from it which is really good. You can never reach the theoretical limits because of various timings and such.
A 3200+ Barton has been clocked as high as 3.0GHz (compared to it's stock 2.2). But this was with sub zero cooling. Realistically with air cooling you could easily go as high as 2.6 or 2.7GHz.
As for the memory speeds 3200 DDR ram is basically rated to go at a maximum of 3200 MB/s. With my setup I get around 3000 MB/s from it which is really good. You can never reach the theoretical limits because of various timings and such.
A 3200+ Barton has been clocked as high as 3.0GHz (compared to it's stock 2.2). But this was with sub zero cooling. Realistically with air cooling you could easily go as high as 2.6 or 2.7GHz.
Scared0o0Rabbit
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yeah, but I can't go over 266 fsb cause I have to run the cpus in smp mode, I think 266 was the limit, gotta do all your overclocking on the multipliers.
Scared0o0Rabbit
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Does that come with a multispeed polywhozit capable of driving multiple flimflams?
Scared0o0Rabbit
Established Member
it's not about how many jiggawatts you have, it's about how high they jump.
(I love movies).
(I love movies).
800MHz Pentium III on 133MHz FSB
Intel VC820, i820 chipset
256MB single-channel PC800 DRDRAM (2x128)
ATi Radeon 9500 Pro, with WARP BIOS to allow overclocking
Creative Sound Blaster Live!5.1
Lucent v.90 WinModem
LinkSys 10/100baseT Ethernet NIC
Quantum3D Obsidian2 X-24 (Voodoo2 SLI on one PCI board, currently disabled)
One 20GB 7200RPM IBM hard drive, one 8GB unknown brand 5400RPM drive
Yamaha CRW-2200E - 20x10x40
LG 16x DVD-ROM
Disconnected iOmega Zip-100 drive
Um... 300W, unknown brand, Pentium 4 and Athlon certified PSU
That's about it... I think...
Intel VC820, i820 chipset
256MB single-channel PC800 DRDRAM (2x128)
ATi Radeon 9500 Pro, with WARP BIOS to allow overclocking
Creative Sound Blaster Live!5.1
Lucent v.90 WinModem
LinkSys 10/100baseT Ethernet NIC
Quantum3D Obsidian2 X-24 (Voodoo2 SLI on one PCI board, currently disabled)
One 20GB 7200RPM IBM hard drive, one 8GB unknown brand 5400RPM drive
Yamaha CRW-2200E - 20x10x40
LG 16x DVD-ROM
Disconnected iOmega Zip-100 drive
Um... 300W, unknown brand, Pentium 4 and Athlon certified PSU
That's about it... I think...
MasterAkumaMatata
Established Member
Wow, how long have you had that 8MB unknown brand 5400RPM drive? I didn't know they made HDDs that small. Is that a typo where you meant to say 8GB? :lol:
Could be. The first hard drives IBM offered WAY BACK WHEN had a capacity of 10MB. And if you really splurged ($500ish vs $300ish) you could get a whopping 15MB.
I loved my IBM XT with a 10MB hard drive... until it got a virus. Yep, without an internet connection! It was from a floppy disk. The virus was a bouncing smiley face that would fly across the screen every few seconds.
I bout the XT for $40 used in a thrift store so I could type my school papers at home (i thought it was a luxury at the time) until I got a 286 with windows 3.1 about 3 months later.
I bout the XT for $40 used in a thrift store so I could type my school papers at home (i thought it was a luxury at the time) until I got a 286 with windows 3.1 about 3 months later.