after a month of grief with my xp1800, I liquidated all my socket A stuff on ebay, and went for a p4 2.53. This upcoming price cut was enough justification. I subscribed to the buyers assurance plan that doubles price differences within 90 days. I paid 230, and the price should drop to roughly 190.00, so my final cost should run about 150 (yay)... but I digress...
I got the albatron mobo with the 845PEV chipset so I could still use my 512mb of samsung pc2700. After having a kt133, kt133a, kt266a, I was suprised to fund this mobo was around 35% smaller than what I'm used to. nice. Installing the processor was a bit of a whore, mostly because the mobo had something impeding correct seating, which unfortunatly took about 1.5hrs to discover. The stock heatsink was pretty ghetto. I mean the fasteners are ridiculous. Thankfully the processor doesn't seems as delicate as amd's (which can easily get f*cked up when installing a large heatsink with the ziff clips). Anyway, once everything was up I was happily suprised!
With just the stock cooling, I was able to do an easy 3.1ghz running the memory at just under 400mhz cl2. And even at 3.1ghz, it seems to have plenty of headroom (where my xp1800 @ 1.7ghz was running around 51c, the p4 @ 3.1 was 46c). Needless to say, I'm happy as clam!
I guess tonight I will try and push it a bit farther...))))
I got the albatron mobo with the 845PEV chipset so I could still use my 512mb of samsung pc2700. After having a kt133, kt133a, kt266a, I was suprised to fund this mobo was around 35% smaller than what I'm used to. nice. Installing the processor was a bit of a whore, mostly because the mobo had something impeding correct seating, which unfortunatly took about 1.5hrs to discover. The stock heatsink was pretty ghetto. I mean the fasteners are ridiculous. Thankfully the processor doesn't seems as delicate as amd's (which can easily get f*cked up when installing a large heatsink with the ziff clips). Anyway, once everything was up I was happily suprised!
With just the stock cooling, I was able to do an easy 3.1ghz running the memory at just under 400mhz cl2. And even at 3.1ghz, it seems to have plenty of headroom (where my xp1800 @ 1.7ghz was running around 51c, the p4 @ 3.1 was 46c). Needless to say, I'm happy as clam!
I guess tonight I will try and push it a bit farther...
))))
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