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TBird O/C success story

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CTweak

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Got a TBird 800 from ATACOM today, with an ABIT KT7 and Vantec AMD-S36040 cooler (probably not the best cooler, but the best Atacom had and the best I could find actually 'in stock'!). Paired with Mushkin 150 HSDRAM

No pins removed from this TBird. L1 Bridges were cut. Used good 'ol pencil trick to re-attach them.

100x9 900Mhz runs rock solid so far at default voltage. Idle/low use temps (regular win apps, Netscape, email, Word, etc) are 30-34C while heavy CPU usage (Quake, etc) temps go up to 43C.

100x9.5 950Mhz runs great with 1.85 volts. Heavy use temps go up to 50-52C. Too much heat for me, so I dropped back down to 900Mhz.

TBird had green tint (Austin fab?) and these markings ...

AMD Athlon
A0800APT3B
AFFA0030GPAW
92185150417
 
Your results are very similar to mine. My TB800 runs rock solid at 900 1.725v. I can get 960 (9.5 x 101) rock solid but I too need 1.85v. I've backed down to 900 since that is plenty fast for me.

I really wanted to get 1 ghz but I've tried everything and I just can't get there so instead of stressing the CPU at 950, I thought I'd let it run easy at 900.

On the other hand, if I could have gotten 1 ghz, I'd run that TBird at 1 ghz till it died no matter how hot it got.
 
My PIII 800 runs 900 @ 1.6V

I wish I could push the voltage to something other than 2.0V (my only other option).

I bet I could get close to 1Ghz if I could use 1.85V

2.0V is just too high for me. :-/

Eric
 
hmm... i looked at that site, i found it funny that vantec is about two buildings down the road on the same street as atacom.
 
That is funny. No wonder they only offer Vantec stuff 🙂 It's a decent heatsink (huge alumninum) and good ball bearing fan on top. Not too difficult to install nor does it hang over the socket much interfering with surrounding capacitors. Does a decent job cooling too. Not sure, other coolers might do better though ...
 
I have a Thunderbird 900 @ 1ghz. Iam using a Alpha PAL35 with a Delta 6900 rpm 60mm fan.

This thing is rock stable, will post at 1066, 1.1 is too far.


-my 2 cents.

 
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