Do i have a crappy thunderbird?

[MortaniuS]

Well, i began this post saying that &quot;The pencil trick worked like char...&quot; <<system Lock>>

Rebooted and ended up locking again when i tried to post. At this point i was running my 800mhz thunderbird @ 950mhz and voltage 1.85

So i had to drop it down to 900mhz. So far it seems to be working fine, played bout 10 mins of quake no problems.

temps when the system is not that much active is 78 ambient, 89 cpu and playing quake around 78/103

my mobo is a kt7-raid with 256megs micron ram.
my hsf is globalwin (fop-32 i think)
Any ideas guys ?

 

[Techwhore]

it's a bust, your chip can't do anymore... same thing happens to me at 1050 and 1100. Try upping the fsb to squeeze a little more out...

 

[MortaniuS]

damn that sucks, i wanted 950mhz :-/ I messed with the fsb and so far it SEEMS to run find at 927/103mhz

 

[Davegod75]

i can only get 927 too..but mine is a 700Mhz

 

[MikeHelvey]

Isn't 89 too high for an Athlon? The specs call for the t-bird to operate up to 90. Or am I reading it wrong?

 

[MortaniuS]

My bad, thats farenheight (however you spell it)
Right now i screwed around with the FSB a little and sems to be runnig stable at 957.
Originally i tried 9.5 x 100 and it boted find into windows but after awhile it would lock up. Right now i have it set at 9 x 105 + 1 and it seems to run stable. played 30 mins of unreal and no glitches. The CPU doesnt get over 40c during heavy gaming so i think this is my chips sweetspot.

 

[Trifecta]

Its all a question of RAM

 

[MortaniuS]

Well my ram was running 100mhz + pci clock at 9.5 x 100 and it crashed.
Now im running 106mhz +pci at 9.0 and it runs fine

I have 2 128 micron pc-133's

 

[redpriest_]

Voltage, voltage, voltage.

Durons and Tbirds respond remarkably well to voltage hikes. I modified my Abit KT7 RAID for higher voltage, and surprise, bumped up another 50 MHz on my duron.

 

[MortaniuS]

how do u get it past 1.85?