- Jan 4, 2000
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Hi all,
I recently had my SATA boot drive fail due to power surges, had to switch to a PATA drive that came from my XBOX, and noticed that I cannot O/C as much. I was able to hit 180-190 FSB with my Seagate barracuda 7200.7 no problem. That drive took a crap on me when my PSU failed (an Antec true 330 because of very dirty power). I had to switch to backup PATA (Seagte ST310014ACE from my Xbox). I notice I could not hit above 176 FSB.
System is as follows:
AXP 2500+
Asus A7N8X
2x Corsair 3200 XMS (512MB)
Asus 9600XT
Sony CD-RW
Ever since I have installed the PATA drive, I have not been able to exceed 175 FSB. I would not be able to boot to O/S which I assumed was because of the HDD. Because with the SATA drive I was ble to hit 185 flawlessly. Now it won't even load O/S above 175. While the PATA drive is ATA 100, I was shocked to find out I could not get eh O/C results I used to get (2.1 GHz on a fairly old Barton 2500+) I was wondering if there where any BIOS settings I could change to get better O/C results with this mobo/CPU combo. I am almost sure it is the IDE bus that is holding me back at this point, I was curious if there were any BIOS settings that I missed to squeeze a few extra MHz out of this 2500+. I know with the SATA drive I was hitting 2.1 GHz easily, now I am lucky to hit 1.9 GHz.
I know the obvious solution is to go S939 and forget thee problems, but I am extremely poor and I have to squeeze every last bit of performance from this 3 yr. old mobo and proc. that I can. BTW I have a decent PAL heatsink, so heat is not a problem. I max out at 54 C, while cracking RC5.
I recently had my SATA boot drive fail due to power surges, had to switch to a PATA drive that came from my XBOX, and noticed that I cannot O/C as much. I was able to hit 180-190 FSB with my Seagate barracuda 7200.7 no problem. That drive took a crap on me when my PSU failed (an Antec true 330 because of very dirty power). I had to switch to backup PATA (Seagte ST310014ACE from my Xbox). I notice I could not hit above 176 FSB.
System is as follows:
AXP 2500+
Asus A7N8X
2x Corsair 3200 XMS (512MB)
Asus 9600XT
Sony CD-RW
Ever since I have installed the PATA drive, I have not been able to exceed 175 FSB. I would not be able to boot to O/S which I assumed was because of the HDD. Because with the SATA drive I was ble to hit 185 flawlessly. Now it won't even load O/S above 175. While the PATA drive is ATA 100, I was shocked to find out I could not get eh O/C results I used to get (2.1 GHz on a fairly old Barton 2500+) I was wondering if there where any BIOS settings I could change to get better O/C results with this mobo/CPU combo. I am almost sure it is the IDE bus that is holding me back at this point, I was curious if there were any BIOS settings that I missed to squeeze a few extra MHz out of this 2500+. I know with the SATA drive I was hitting 2.1 GHz easily, now I am lucky to hit 1.9 GHz.
I know the obvious solution is to go S939 and forget thee problems, but I am extremely poor and I have to squeeze every last bit of performance from this 3 yr. old mobo and proc. that I can. BTW I have a decent PAL heatsink, so heat is not a problem. I max out at 54 C, while cracking RC5.