Well my little Fall 2003 project is finally done. My plan was to get a barton 2500 and get it to run it as a 3200 (200x11) I got alot more than I expected
To go with the barton I got an SLK900a which was onsale at SVC, some ceramique, a panaflo 90m L1A for cpu (I like it quiet) 1gb corsair twin xms 3200LL Black Heatspreader and an Asus A7N8X deluxe 2.0 Got it all from Newegg except the SLK900a.
I went with Asus over the Abit board mostly because I have had very good luck with Asus boards (CUSL2 Gold) but I would have gone with the Abit board had I known that I can not change the northbridge voltage in the asus bios. I had been reading that the "Uber" Bios versions enabled this feature, but it seems that its not really true according to people at nforce forums.
Anway after setting this baby up and adding my 2 new WD120JB SATA drives for raid 0 and porting over all my other stuff like a 5V modded sparkle 400W PS and an additronics 7896-120 case that Jim H customized for me from coolcases.com a few years back I was ready to go.
I had read that green AQXEA's were very nice OC'ers (mine is a week 32) I just decided to start out at 200x11 and using loose timings I booted into windows XP. Encouraged I tightened the timings to 6-2-2-2 and still no prob so I upped the voltage to 1.85 and lowered the multi to 8 and went for a 24 hour burn in using prime 95.
After that I added a chipset HS and some artic silver adhesive to the southbridge and then started to OC bigtime
To make a long story short and after 3 days of extensive testing (running 3dmark and sandra burn in at same time for 12+ hours) I am stable at 233x10.5 which is 2446 with timings of 11,2,2,2 and I could not be happier. I can not seem to make it crash no matter what I throw at it. It can do 227x11 which is about 2500 and stable but I am a FSB guy and it benched better at 233x10.5.
Talk about being surprised and for an $85 cpu at newegg? man o man
Cheers
Guess I should add temps! 40C idle and 46C full load on the diode and 47C on the socket using MBM 5.0
To go with the barton I got an SLK900a which was onsale at SVC, some ceramique, a panaflo 90m L1A for cpu (I like it quiet) 1gb corsair twin xms 3200LL Black Heatspreader and an Asus A7N8X deluxe 2.0 Got it all from Newegg except the SLK900a.
I went with Asus over the Abit board mostly because I have had very good luck with Asus boards (CUSL2 Gold) but I would have gone with the Abit board had I known that I can not change the northbridge voltage in the asus bios. I had been reading that the "Uber" Bios versions enabled this feature, but it seems that its not really true according to people at nforce forums.
Anway after setting this baby up and adding my 2 new WD120JB SATA drives for raid 0 and porting over all my other stuff like a 5V modded sparkle 400W PS and an additronics 7896-120 case that Jim H customized for me from coolcases.com a few years back I was ready to go.
I had read that green AQXEA's were very nice OC'ers (mine is a week 32) I just decided to start out at 200x11 and using loose timings I booted into windows XP. Encouraged I tightened the timings to 6-2-2-2 and still no prob so I upped the voltage to 1.85 and lowered the multi to 8 and went for a 24 hour burn in using prime 95.
After that I added a chipset HS and some artic silver adhesive to the southbridge and then started to OC bigtime
To make a long story short and after 3 days of extensive testing (running 3dmark and sandra burn in at same time for 12+ hours) I am stable at 233x10.5 which is 2446 with timings of 11,2,2,2 and I could not be happier. I can not seem to make it crash no matter what I throw at it. It can do 227x11 which is about 2500 and stable but I am a FSB guy and it benched better at 233x10.5.
Talk about being surprised and for an $85 cpu at newegg? man o man
Cheers
Guess I should add temps! 40C idle and 46C full load on the diode and 47C on the socket using MBM 5.0
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