C533A Owners: Is Your Slotket Holding You Back from +897MHz?

[Killer Ape]

Well Thorn I live in NYC, but I dated a girl from Knoxville for a couple years. Close enough?

Go Vols!

You of course know what the next step in this slotket testing process is going to be?

I pray you don't happen to have a P!!!E laying around anywhere...

 

[Killer Ape]

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[Killer Ape]

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[Killer Ape]

Triple oops. Triple Post.

 

[Angrymarshmello]

Muchas gracias Eug, KA, and Thorn!

One more q: compuwiz said to go with the 533a's because hes had better oc success rate: what do you guys think?

And do you guys have trouble getting the Golden Orb power cable to hook up to the mobo on a BH6? It looks really short and my stock Intel one barely reaches the power plug. (Using a C366@458, generic slotket on a BH6 1.0)

 

[Angrymarshmello]

Muchas gracias Eug, KA, and Thorn!

One more q: compuwiz said to go with the 533a's because hes had better oc success rate: what do you guys think?

And do you guys have trouble getting the Golden Orb power cable to hook up to the mobo on a BH6? It looks really short and my stock Intel one barely reaches the power plug. (Using a C366@458, generic slotket on a BH6 1.0)

 

[ObiDon]

I personally would probably pick the 533a (Compuwiz will probably be the first to hear when I want one!) hoping to hit the 117mhz FSB at 936. That way the PCI bus would be a little under spec instead of over. Unless you have a motherboard that lets you pick the pci divider independently of the FSB. Do they exist? That would be cool. My 6BA+IV picks for me

 

[Killer Ape]

Either a 533A or 566 is the way to go. The rates I've been seeing on the forum here of 566s hitting 952 and 533As hitting 936 is pretty low. It seems like 825-900MHz is a more realistic goal with air cooling. If you want absolute stability then I'd stick to the 100MHz FSB and go with a 566 at 850.

I got the 533A the first week they were available at retail. I chose it because it was about $40 cheaper than the 566, had only an 8 multiplier (this was when mobo support for 8.5+ multipliers was still a mystery) and seemed a little more flexible in OCing since it had slightly smaller MHz leaps than the 566. I feel lucky that it hits 897, but was happy enough at 825.

I also got it because (as some of you may remember) I kept shooting my big fat mouth off in the forum about how Intel would never make a Cumine 533, so I felt I had to put my money where my mouth was .

 

[Killer Ape]

Oh, RB: I have a BX6r2 and the Orbs cable reaches okay. I think the BH6 is slightly more compact, so it's probably fine. If you really run into a problem you can demount the fan and turn it to an angle that gives you a shorter distance, but its a royal pain in the ass to reinstall it .

 

[Thorn]

No, I don't have a !!!e... but I can get one!

I need a better board to do my Slotket testing though (something with more FSB speeds)... I think I'll pick up an Asus CUBX (Intel) or CUV4X (VIA). Which should I get? I picked up a sweet Micron 128MB PC133 CAS2 today from the office (almost everyone's getting 150FSB with this type). Hehe, CuMine testing here I come!

 

[Thorn]

BTW, I'd get a 566 from Compuwiz... actually, that's what I did.

If you want to run a higher FSB get a 533a. But to be honest, if you can run higher FSBs with your rig then go with a CuMine 650e or 700e instead. Just makes more sense from a value standpoint.

 

[tielli]

i have a bx6 so what type of mother board do i need to get more settings in the fsb i need 105,107,109 so i can twek my cpu a litter better thanks

 

[tielli]

I WISH YOU GUYS WOULD START A NEW TOPIC IT TAKES TO LONG TO LOAD 3 PAGES HA HA

 

[Killer Ape]

Thorn, I personally would like to see the tests done on both a BX board and a VIA. I think Wiz would recommend a BX Master, and I'm not up to speed on the VIAs so I don't know which is a good one.

The P!!!E question is just out of curiosity about THEIR compatibility with PPGA "only" slotkets. Anyone try that yet? It would be weird if the P!!!Es don't work with PPGA when the C2s do because it would indicate that Intel changed the pin-outs on the C2s to work with older mobos but didn't do the same to the P!!!Es.

 

[Aboroth]

Has anybody tried what Killer Ape asked, running a PIIIE on a PPGA slotket?
I might try when I get home, I am at work now.

 

[Xtremist]

This may sound dumb, but does CompuWiz have a web page or anything? Or am I supposed to just e-mail him for a part?

 

[Killer Ape]

Email him.

 

[Xtremist]

Will do. Thanx.

 

[Eug]

Hmmm... Let's keep this thread alive just a little longer...

Well, I may just have to do some more testing. I had two sticks of el cheapo PC-100 memory and I just bought a 3rd which was PC-133. I completely disassembled everything and put it in a new case, minus one stick of PC-100 to put in another computer. Low and behold, not only does everything work at first boot up, my computer runs perfectly at the CAS2 memory setting instead of the required CAS3 previously. (This is a big surprise to me considering that it never works properly the first time I assemble something, and I'm running all sorts of stuff, including 5 drives.) So, I wonder how much of my instability at superduper high speeds was memory related.

By the way, the Aopen HX08 is a nice roomy case and the slide out motherboard tray is nice. Definitely not perfect though. My old case is actually better designed, but it's only a 235 W mid-tower.

 

[Killer Ape]

Holy Crap Eug! Five drives? So did you manage more speed? The CAS3 to CAS2 thing IS nice. I'll have to try bumping my RAM back down to CAS2 and see how that works. I kind of just set it to CAS3 when I went above 103MHz on principle, and never set it back.

By the way, what exactly does you company sell/do? I checked out the website. Lots of VERY cool and interesting looking products, but I had a hard time figuring exactly what the company does :Q.

 

[Eug]

LOL Uh, the personal website is fake. It's built as a (cheap looking) corporate website but in reality it's just an excuse to put pix of myself and friends and other personal stuff up. If you read the "About Us" section at http://www3.sympatico.ca/eug1/aboutus.htm you'll get the joke. It was just me trying to learn HTML and Photoshop, with a few JavaScript applets thrown in. Basically I learned that anyone can write HTML, but very few people have the design skills to develop a truly professional looking site, and I'm not one of them.

As for the overclocking, I will attempt that on the weekend. I'd like to try it also on my other motherboard, but I may need a few extra parts for that. (The five drives are not all hard drives by the way. Three are ROMs - I do a lot of MP3 encoding and archiving.)

 

[Killer Ape]

DOH! That is freaking HYSTERICAL!

Tell me I'm not the first to be that stupid .

 

[IBhacknU]

this is the part I like:
If you are interested in becoming a stockholder in Hsieh Industries, Inc., please send a certified cheque or money order to:

Dr. Eugene Hsieh
Chief Executive Officer
Hsieh Industries, Inc.
Toronto, Ontario
Canada, H0H 0H0


Uhhh, the check's in the mail. When do I get my certificates and proxy stuff?

 

[Eug]

By the way,

H0H 0H0 is the postal code used by Canada Post for letters to Santa Claus from little kids. So Santa is getting an early Christmas present this year?

 

[IBhacknU]

ho ho ho!