Bad Seti Day!

[MoFunk]

Well I was setting up my raid 0 array and it took much longer than expected since I had to transfer a huge amount of data from my old 40 gig drive over to this new array, then I tried to tweak my new ram a bit and squeeze out a better overclock and I can's get it to outperform my old ram. I have PC2100 and got some Corsair PC3200! What gives? Anyway my system did not crunch for a few hours and my front room system was trying to get to my queue and it sat idle for a few hours as well. Dang overclock! I wonder if it is my CPU.....

AMD XP2000+
Corsair PC3200
Epox 8K3A+

or my video card Hercules KyroII

 

[mechBgon]

Well, looking at your System Rig specs, it's pretty obvious that the problem is the blue power supply. AMD's "home" color is green, and you're totally upsetting its vibe with the Intel-oriented PSU there.

A little extra voltage on the RAM helps in some OC situations too. Maybe 2.7V or so if you're not already up there...?

 

[networkman]

Don't feel too bad - I lost a little over 6 hours D2OL production while I was playing Counterstrike.

I enjoy playing on servers where no cheats are allowed and Admins monitor for hackers.

 

[MoFunk]

Originally posted by: mechBgon
Well, looking at your System Rig specs, it's pretty obvious that the problem is the blue power supply. AMD's "home" color is green, and you're totally upsetting its vibe with the Intel-oriented PSU there.

A little extra voltage on the RAM helps in some OC situations too. Maybe 2.7V or so if you're not already up there...?

LOL....I did change that PSU with an Enermax 430 watt. I have the ram voltage up to 2.8 I am leaning towards to video card. The other cards I have in there are a firewire card, a nic and my modem. Maybe I will play around with it and take all those cards out. But I may break down and get a geforce4 card anyway. Kinda frustrating cuz I want to break the 3 hour WU mark on a consistant basis!

 

[Robor]

Get the GeForce4 card. You'll not regret it! Well, except the paying for it part!

 

[Freewolf]

Even an ati 8500 will beat that kyro2

 

[MoFunk]

Originally posted by: Freewolf
Even an ati 8500 will beat that kyro2

I am not really a gamer, I don't have the time, but I am looking for a card that will handle a nice overclock. Will the Radeon overclock well do you know? Thanks.

 

[cnhoff]

When you are no gamer, why would you want a new video card and overclock it?

For letting the gpu run 2 million idle cycles every second instead of 1 million?!

 

[MoFunk]

Not looking to overclock the card itself, but I am overclocking my system and think that the card I have now does not like the high FSB since it also raises the PCI and AGP also. Thinking that the card may be why I can't get me FSB higher I was looking to replace it with one that will hadle it better.