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Gotta love these Durons

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DanC

Diamond Member
Playing around with the processor speed chart weighing risk/performance and noted that with Durons, Athlons, and T-Birds, every Mhz you add to the processor returns 1+ block per day. i.e. - if you OC by 100 Mhz - you'll get 109 more blocks a day from that machine.

Contrast this with the Celery/P2/P3 - where you get about 90 blocks for 100 Mhz overclock.

I used to be a die-hard Intel guy before I tried AMD!
 
I got me a 1GHz Tbird. 🙂 Just waiting for the Turbo-R to be released. In the meantime, my Celeron 500 just does its 400 blocks per day... 🙂
 
i dispise my Duron 😛

well, it's either my Duron or my Pro2A... what we need is the stability of an Intel motherboard made for SocketA 😉
 


<< what we need is the stability of an Intel motherboard made for SocketA >>



Like what? The Intel i820 reference boards which needed a RIMM slot ripped off to be stable? Or the i840's with really bad MTH problems....Not all Intel motherboards are the most stable. Usually they are.....but not always. And, if you want a stable Socket A mobo....check out this link to Anands review of a stable mobo

They're out there....they're just not cheap, and have been a long time in coming (well, stability as compared to the Slot 1/socket 370 camp).
 
DUAL DUAL DUAL DUAL DUAL DUAL!!!!

I want DUAL!!!

Chant with me now.. DUAL DUAL DUAL DUAL!

Gatsby - 769
 
There is a theory going around that the first batch of pro2a board may have a had batch of via south bridges.

 
DUAL DUAL DUAL DUAL DUAL DUAL!!!!

760 MP where art thou?!?

bah, my electric bill couln't afford dual palominos. the power company would come knocking &quot;michael, have you been using electricity to run distributed computer projects such as, but no limited to, seti@home?&quot; &quot;yes.&quot; &quot;come this way.&quot; &quot;doh!&quot;


its late. economics texts have mushed my mind. booooooooooooooooooooooo!
 
toph99,

I had a duron 600 that would do 900+ stable on a Kt7 raid board, switched to A k7tpro2A and best it would do was 800. I have two systems built with the pro boards now that are fine but wonder what they could do on new Abit board😉

 
cpars,

I was wondering why you changed MB?? Was it the same 600 chip that you used on both MB?? I have 2 Durons 600@1000 on Abit KT7 boards. The first 600 came locked and it worked out so well decided to get the second chip. That one came UNlocked. Both are very stable and run rc5 24/7. 🙂
 
Well was not exactly a decision, I was fvcking around with the KT7 voltage mod and fried the board, so I went on the FS/FT forums and said I needed two Kt7 raid boards quick and got responses that the k7T was the stuff right then, so I wound up buying three of them. Now don't get me wrong they seem to be very stable boards but not as overclockable as the KT7, because yes that was the exact same chip that ran at least 100mhz slower on the MSI board, tried different bios updates etc. the only difference was the Sdram I used but that is moot since the KT7 would run at 9X100 and the MSI would not even accept 8.5X100.
 
I thought all you need to do on the durons and athlons to be able to up the voltage more is to just connect the L7 bridges.
 
yes you can up to 1.85 and does not even need L7 connected with new bios, I wanted more voltage, requires soldering and a 30kohm resistor.
 
I wanted more voltage, requires soldering and a 30kohm resistor

:Q

(now THAT'S a dedicated, hardcore overclocker! 😉)
 
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