Poll: KT133a mobo owners, PLEASE read and answer poll! thanks!

[RoboTECH]

Looking to overclock on a KT133a board. I've seen so many varying opinions on here, I wonder if it's "the empty wagon makes the most noise" syndrome or what

If you've actually USED a KT133a board to o/c (or try to o/c), please post to this thread and let me know some details, such as CPU original/overclock speed, voltage, RAM used, FSB total, and any problems/weirdness that occcured and any particular tweeking you did.

If you were successful, and you're happy with your Kt133a board, please answer the poll.

If you tried but were unsuccessful, or if you had to RMA the board, or whatever, PLEASE do not answer the poll, but instead, post to this thread the details.

Thanks a million guys/n/gals!

 

[djchemistry]

Well I guess I'm first in line here.

I'm running a Duron 800 @1000mhz 133fsb ~1.8V. Something like 7.5x133 or somewhere near there. As far as ram, I'm just running an ol' 128mb stick of kingston pc100@133. (Being really really patient with ram prices to make a purchase)

When I get some new ram and a high flying Tbird, I'll probably push this board a little harder. But since it's my primary computer, I probably won't put too much stress on the PCI cards.

As far as oc'ing is concerned, never had any problems with this puppy. However before I drew the lines and changed the multiplier, I switched the voltage jumper and set it to 1.8-1.85v manually on the board. It still gives me the jumperless options in the bios but without the risk of the cpu not running at the default voltage. Besides that I didn't change a damn thing. I swear this mobo's programmed to o/c automatically. It's been a smooth ride almost like riding in one of them luxury cars. That's the way it should be anyway since the "Asus" name adds on like $30.

 

[Dulanic]

T-Bird 800@1050... 7x150 with 256MB Mosel Rev2. No issues except my A7V133 miscounted RAM with any BIOS 1002+.... they just fixed this with 1004, so I have not even one complaint anymore it works flawless.

 

[RoboTECH]

4 plusses for Asus, 2 for Abit

<Sigh>

didn't want to go that direction, too damn expensive.

 

[Dulanic]

There actually is a poll like this on the main forum... Asus is at like 15 the rest are 2-4.

Whats the price difference? $5? $10?

 

[Killrose]

Board: EP-8KTA3
CPU: AMD 750MHz T-bird
Fan: AOC Mega-Cool (Mwave supplied in Motherboard/Cpu bundle)
Ram: Infineon 133 cas 3/Compuwiz1 stuff. Cas2 @150MHz, Cas3 Above 150MHz
Overclocking:
7x133MHz/931MHz 1.80v
7x136Mhz/952MHz 1.85v
6.5x145MHz/942MHz 1.85v
6x150MHz/900MHz 1.80v
6x155MHz/930MHz 1.825v
No gig for me
These are only stable settings that I have listed, run for days at a time
with no crashes.
Ram/Board running with 4bank interleaving enabled.
After 2-3hrs of Counter Strike, temps recorded are 42-43C
KT133A Northbridge has metal disc on top, date 0201
No adjustments to i/o voltages have been used, or agp voltage adjustment.
Wierdness: 256mb ram reported as 262mb
Had to bind some pci slots in bios to adjust irq settings to prefered useage, but thats typical.
Ummmm.....lets see what else?
Machine is only used for gamming and internet surfing.

 

[stultus]

It's all in my sig. No gigahertz for me.... YET. I have a few more tricks up my sleeve. Running Kingston Valueram (the &quot;good&quot; kind that'll run CAS2, but I'm not running it at CAS2... long story).

ASUS is awesome@

 

[ecke]

Abit KT7A, Thunderbird 1,1 GHz and Mosel 256Mb. Drew the lines, popped it in and changed setting to 133x9 (1,2GHz), 1.75v. Booted up Linux and it's been up ever since. What more could you ask? Stable, lightning fast and cheap, AMD!