My Duron 800MHz doesn't do 1GHz (100MHz*10.0), but it'll do 1.008GHz (112MHz*9)..

[PlunX]

I've been wanting to run my Duron at 1GHz for a while, but it seems like the only way to get it to (or above) 1GHz is to change the FSB, which causes controller lock-ups in most of my games and blue screens when using file-sharing programs like Napster. What really boggles my mind is how it'll do over 1GHz by changing the FSB but it won't run at a perfect 1GHz just using the 10.0 multiplier. What could be up with this?

 

[cabojoe]

Hey guys....
We also ran into the same problem when trying to oc Classic Athlons via the goldfinger on the Abit KA7. Anything under a gig worked fine with the multiplier, but setting it at 10x caused lockups. Somebody suggested that by turning off 4x AGP, the problem with the 10x multiplier would go away. Amazingly enough, it worked! Since 4x agp is really no big deal, I have never missed it. But to get the best performance out of my system, I backed off the multiplier to 9.5x, and upped the fsb to 108. This also raised the frequency of my memory bus to 144, giving much better memory bandwidth, and also raised my AGP bus to 72 mhtz .*** With the setup like this, I have found that enabling sideband and 4x causes some kind of conflict on the overclocked agp bus, so these options are best left unused.*** Often times lockups occur, and it appears to you that that it is because of the settings you have been constantly changing...ie cpu overclocking settings... when in fact the lockups may occur due to other parts of the system that you have set and forgot...ie AGP options. I did read an article (I wish I remembered where it was), that outlined the benefits of Sidebanding vs overclocking the AGP bus which leaned towards the overclocked AGP bus as more favorable than sidebanding. I realize that the difference between a KA7 chipset (KX133) and the KT7 chipset (KT133) COULD make all of this a moot point, but it wouldn't hurt to try it.



Athlon 850 @ 1028 1/3 L2 1.95 volts
Abit KA7
128 megs Mushkin Rev.2 PC-133 running cas2 at 144 mhtz.
Ninja Micros FreeSpeed Pro goldfinger
GlobalWin FKK32 Heatsink/Fans
Creative Annihilator 2 GeForce GTS

 

[jdaves]

same here,my t-bird 800 does 9.5x106 fine, but runs unstable @ 10x100....so again go figure...

 

[PlunX]

Well, I have AGP 4X disabled but I'm not sure about sidebanding.. How do you disable it? I haven't seen anything about it in the BIOS.

 

[Technonut]

If you have Powerstrip, you can disable it under Advanced Options, Diagnostics.

 

[PlunX]

Alright, it had a check by it so I unchecked it.. Is that permanent or does it only work like that if Powerstrip's running? Powerstrip isn't one of my favorite programs, so.. I rarely ever use it.

 

[cabojoe]

BTW..logic would tell us that if you are trying to get windows to boot by turning off AGP 4x...you will need to turn 4x off in the bios...sorry I forgot to mention that in my post.

 

[PlunX]

AGP 4X hasn't been enabled in the BIOS since I purchased the motherboard, so.. I guess that couldn't be what the problem is..