What a waste!

[Pederv]

Got my 1.2GHz AXIA/Yxxxxxxx Athlon! Just put it in my KT7-RAID, SMOKIN! Too bad I can't get it much over 1.3GHz.

 

[Hender]

A CPU only running at the speed it's meant for? Shocking!

 

[splice]

I'll take that system off your hands if you don't want it.

 

[spamboy]

splice, i'll second that.

 

[Budman]

Maybe the power supply is not giving the cpu enough juice.

did you try 1.85 volts ?

 

[MichaelD]

Is that multiplier only or mult & FSB OCing? AXIA TBirds are well-known for a decent overclock. 20% is not uncommon. Strange.

I have one of the "older" 1GHz "B" Athlons. It won't do an 11x mult unless the voltage is maxed out. Unfortunately, at that voltage, my CPU temps are way too high. I'm happy at 1130MHz though. 10.5 x 108.

 

[compuwiz1]

Sounds like what he is trying to say, is he has a KT133 chipset board, so 133MHz fsb+ is out of the question. What a waste! We'll you deserve a new mobo too.

 

[Budman]

Ok i get it now.

Yes it's a waste to use a great cpu on that pos Abit board.

You need a new board to take full advantage of that cpu.

 

[billyjak]

I can get 1.4 at 1.85v with my Abit KT7 Raid board with a 1 gig Avia
I run it at 1.352 or 1.365 at 1.775v
I bought from Compuwiz

 

[Pederv]

Billyjack, how are you getting 1.4GHz? By upping the FSB? I haven't tried upping the FSB, with the new chip, yet. With my 800@900 I could only go to 103MHz, but Prime95 would burp so I backed it down to 100MHz. I think that's because I bought generic RAM back when PC133 was almost $200 for a 256MB stick.
Budman, I've had this KT7-RAID since October of last year. Once I figured how to work around it's little quirks, it's run pretty stable. Might get a lockup during startup about once a month (which is about the same as my ASUS/Intel setup at work).
I did buy this chip with the plan to move it to a Palimino certified motherboard, after the second revision of the board. Then wait for the Palimino to drop in price (1.7 or 1.8GHz for less than $150). In the mean time I'm wasting it's potential(it's a 1200C) on this old 200MHz FSB motherboard.

 

[Renob]

budman what are you talking about POS Abit boards??? I built around 15 to 20 KT7 systems and not ONE problem with the boards. They all rocked and very OCer friendly

 

[compuwiz1]

Renob, I beg to differ with you. You have been lucky, that's all. How do you explain the difference in speed and stability I get over the Abit's by putting the SAME CPU's on different boards and getting better results. Not that I've ever built a system or seen a CPU. LOL
In some cases simply going from the Abit to an Epox or IWill meant 100MHz.

Maybe someday when you emerge from the ether and try a different board, you will find out what you've missed.

 

[Budman]

Renob,

I can speak from experience,i HAD a KT7-raid for a few months myself.

At first it wasnt that bad & the board was OK,but once i sold it & got myself a MSI K7T-Turbo it was like night & day.

I could never get Win2k to run right on it but this Msi board as been running it for over a month now & i have yet to see 1 blue screen yet.

When i had my Abit i didnt think it was hat bad,but after experiencing Stabilty first hand with my MSI i can now say that Abit is a POS.

 

[Renob]

Wizz all Im saying is I never had a problem with them, and I seemed to get about the same overclock on them all...I guess I was lucky any ways I did move on to the KK266 witch did give a better overclock on the FSB and Im now on to the EPOX and love it.

 

[Pederv]

To be honest, if Epox had an AMD approved board when I switched from my K6-3 to the TBird, I would have gotten it instead of the ABit. I was very pleased with the mvp3g5 that I was running at the time. But they were late to market and the Abit was the rage at the time.