- Feb 20, 2002
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Hey all,
Just thoght I would share an experience I had over spring break while upgrading my dad's computer. He had a duron 700 running in his Asus A7V (my first overclocking board - great piece of overclocking goodness). Anyway, after checking out some posts on other asus related boards I decided to order him a 2100+ for his aging board. I was a bit worried about how to get the combo to work, but after some time and a few attempts, I finally got it up and running. And boy does it run. At stock voltage (1.65v) it was able to pass 24hrs of prime95 torture test @ 2.2ghz w/ the retail heatsink that I got with my barton 2500+ (the 2100+ was an oem chip). What was great is that newegg must have had old stock because I got an unlocked week 18 of 2003 core. This thing overclocks like nothing I've ever seen. I kinda wanted to give him my unlocked barton and take this thing for myself. I have no doubt it would do 2.4ghz in my board w/ proper cooling. It had no problem running prime for a few hours at 2.3ghz w/ just and extra .25v. However, with noise and cooling being an issue, I decided not to go for the extra voltage.
I also thought I would mention this because I know the A7V was one of the most popular overclocking boards back in the day (well not that long ago really). Many of you may have one laying around. Upgrade to the new 1011 bios and you have support for pretty much anything. Now, it does use the via kt133 chipset so you are only running a 100mhz supported bus (though rumors appear to be true that you can flash with the asus kt133a bios and get a completely functional board w/ 133mhz fsb; however extra northbridge cooling should also be added). If any of you have one laying around and need a machine to do some normal office type stuff this is a great idea! Wow... sorry for the long rant... I'm just quite happy!
Just thoght I would share an experience I had over spring break while upgrading my dad's computer. He had a duron 700 running in his Asus A7V (my first overclocking board - great piece of overclocking goodness). Anyway, after checking out some posts on other asus related boards I decided to order him a 2100+ for his aging board. I was a bit worried about how to get the combo to work, but after some time and a few attempts, I finally got it up and running. And boy does it run. At stock voltage (1.65v) it was able to pass 24hrs of prime95 torture test @ 2.2ghz w/ the retail heatsink that I got with my barton 2500+ (the 2100+ was an oem chip). What was great is that newegg must have had old stock because I got an unlocked week 18 of 2003 core. This thing overclocks like nothing I've ever seen. I kinda wanted to give him my unlocked barton and take this thing for myself. I have no doubt it would do 2.4ghz in my board w/ proper cooling. It had no problem running prime for a few hours at 2.3ghz w/ just and extra .25v. However, with noise and cooling being an issue, I decided not to go for the extra voltage.
I also thought I would mention this because I know the A7V was one of the most popular overclocking boards back in the day (well not that long ago really). Many of you may have one laying around. Upgrade to the new 1011 bios and you have support for pretty much anything. Now, it does use the via kt133 chipset so you are only running a 100mhz supported bus (though rumors appear to be true that you can flash with the asus kt133a bios and get a completely functional board w/ 133mhz fsb; however extra northbridge cooling should also be added). If any of you have one laying around and need a machine to do some normal office type stuff this is a great idea! Wow... sorry for the long rant... I'm just quite happy!
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