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Any help would be greatly appreciated. Here's my system: p4 1.6a @ 2133, Abit TH7 II Raid w/39c BIOS, 512 MB RDRAM consisting of 4 sticks of 128MB, 8 device Samsung. I've been running @ 2133 (memory @ 4X) for about 2 months perfectly stable. Vcore has been @ 1.575. I'm having problems with XP...

Buy good Samsung RDRAM and you should be able to hit 533 (133 x 4). I've done it on three different systems.

Latency of RDRAM goes down with increase in Mhz. DDR is the opposite. RDRAM/850 chipset is still the all around performace king (for now).

I've built three 1.6a setups running on Abit TH7II motherboards. No extreme OC ing, just 2133 @ 1.55 core volts. These machines run Quake 3 insanely fast and are extremely stable. On the other hand, my friend has an Athlon Xp 1800 rig that is not OC'ed and his machine is also very fast (although...

I've built three different systems that consisted of p4 1.6a, Abit TH7II, and RDRAM. Two were built with Samsung and one was Corsair. The ones with Samsung would reach 2133 @ 1.60 (or less) core voltage. The one with the Corsair would only hit 2133 (@ 1.60 v) with the memory @ 3x; the others...

gedron, I think you can put one device on each channel with the Highpoint chip that's on that board. I have one, but am waiting for memory. I plan to put three devices (one on each channel) on. I'll post here on how it works out.

I have 4 sticks of RDRAM. Two of them are Corsair 128 mb 4 device stuff and these won't go above 110 mhz. The other two are Samsung 128 mb/8 and will do 133 mhz (haven't tried higher yet). I bought the Samsung sticks from memorysuppliers.com. The Corsair came from NewEgg.

PowerEngineer, I think the BIOS problem will disappear once boards with the new BIOS are in circulation. In the meantime you have to get your hands on a older 478 pin P4 or get a new BIOS chip with the correct BIOS revision. I'm not gonna swear to this, but I've been looking at the POST 29 error...

Jrouss head over to overclockers.com, I think you'll find the discussion interesting. Here's another good thread. I guess I'm biased towards the 850/RDRAM setup, but the SIS chipset sounds like it's almost as fast and just as stable.

SHrKY, I just complained that this problem existed because they didn't make buyers aware of the Northwood incompatability problem before their purchase. I guess I got lucky.

Hey Jrouss, here's a few more links that might help you. HardOCP and Ace's.

I'm sure thats what they said, but we'll see if it's really free. I gave them my address and they said that they'd send one out. They did ask for a check, but I complained and they dropped the money request. Also, you can try this place for re-programmed and new BIOS chips programmed with...

Take a look here. May help you decide. :D

Abit will send you a free BIOS chip if you call them and tell them that you have the old BIOS with a new Northwood processor and can't boot.

As I said before, if you want PERFORMANCE, go with the 850/RDRAM setup. If you want bragging rights as to how high you can OC, then go with the DDR setup. GamePC recently had an article comparing PC - 1066 vs. DDR400 Here's the article. DashK is right however about the problem with the Abit...