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My set-up. Need opinions and input.

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mroleg

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Here is what I am building. Have most of the parts and should be up and runnning by Saturday.

p4 2.66 c1 with TT Volcano7+ HSU
Asus P4PE
1024 Mb Corsair PC2700 XMAS
ATI 9700 Pro
2xWD SE 80Gb in raid 0

Since I am a n00b to overclocking, I would appreciate any input on bios settings and stuff like that.


thanks a lot in advance.

oleg
 
Hi,
If you can, cancel the Volcano7+ HSF, apparantly the fan make a very annoying whining noise, and not a "humm".
Get the new Thermalright AX... HSF for P4 and a 80mm fan (i reccommend a YS-Tech, 80m silent version if you want quietness) as well as being a far better cooler, you`ll be able to OC further. Even with a silent YS-Tech on it.
I`d expect you to hit 3GHZ easyly.
Dont forget to have good case ventilation and a decent 300W+ PSU(350+ is better though, expecially as youre gettin a 9700pro).

The 1024mb ram is overkil if you ask me, i have 768mb and the ram usage in XP never goes above 40%, even in UT2003, usually 26%, in normal windows use.
I`d cancel the extra 512 and spend the extra on a faster CPU, like the new HT 3.06 P4, should be able to OC that as well. If you can stretch to that, if not spend the extra money youve saved on a luxery item for your pc, like a fancy mouse/keyboard or a new control pad/stick. or a MP3 Player. Or a few new games to "stress" the new PC to its limits. or not. Your choice.
It seems a well spec`d rig. Better than mine, dam you!!!. lol

Hope this helps.
 
I agree that 1024 megs of ram is overkill.... It would be far better for OC'ing to get 1 stick, of say Corsiar XMS 3000/3200/3500 CAS 2. You should probly hit 3Ghz on deafult Vcore... I'd say around 3.2-3.4 (avg. around here)
Good Luck 🙂
 
Wahtever on the ram total but I would at least get it in 2 sticks of 512mb so you can make that leap to a DCDDR mobo when you have the chance....

If you will be waiting until xmas for a bunch of the stuff I think you are crazy to be getting a i845pe chipset instead...But if you have to, then at least get yourself ready so you can make the change easier....2 sticks could be an issue for high speed settings and possible aggressive timings...I have never had much of an issue with it so far in my testing....My kingmax and crucial ran same speed regardless of in one slot or two...However this could be a board manufacturing issue as well and I run mainly epox with an asus here or there...
 
I dunno about the mobo that youve selected but, if you want, you can spend the money saved on the memory and put it on the mobo, get a mobo with loads of fancy features, or wait until the next "big" mobo chipset gets released, and buy that, sure you`ll be able to supports future standards(such as AGP8x/SerielATA/DualChannelDDR ect😉 and faster CPUs, for future upgrades.
 
the mobo already suports sata, hyper-threading and most of the future technologies except AGP8.
this is what i make out of what i have:
Name String : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz
Internal Clock : 3000.01 MHz
System Bus : 600.00 MHz QDR
System Clock : 150.00 MHz
Multiplier : 20.0
Memory Size : 1024M Byte
Memory Clock : 187.50 MHz
##--- Date 12/13/2002, Time 06:25:42
 
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