Anyone running a 2.53 (or any 533 proc) on a 4G4A+ and how is it working? This past weekend I tried:
G8IEXP
P4S533
and
P4S 645DX Dragon Ultra
The the 8IEXP has absolutely no DDR multipliers, so it went back. The P4S533 was better, but couldn't up the Vmem and OC the FSB at the same time(?) so it went back.
The Soyo board was the best of the bunch, but it craps out @ 155FSB (at least at 1.625Vcore so far) and the AGP multiplier actually underclocks the AGP card with a 62MHz bus at that FSB? I have no idea what it's doing to the PCI, if anything (probably OC'd like mad or underclocked like the AGP).
I'd like to go a little further, but every H/W monitor on the board is flakey. My CPUs temps actually drop under load They've run anywhere from 19C to 48C aircooled (er, in a 27C room). Needless to say, I don't want to push it without knowing where the temp really is.
Anyway, I am still not 100% sold on the Dragon and am keeping my options open. I know my local store has the 4G4A+ on the shelf (like 800 of them and I know it has solid PCI/AGP locks, will run 160+FSB and has semi-decent DDR multipliers. How about memory voltage?
Any info is appreciated...
G8IEXP
P4S533
and
P4S 645DX Dragon Ultra
The the 8IEXP has absolutely no DDR multipliers, so it went back. The P4S533 was better, but couldn't up the Vmem and OC the FSB at the same time(?) so it went back.
The Soyo board was the best of the bunch, but it craps out @ 155FSB (at least at 1.625Vcore so far) and the AGP multiplier actually underclocks the AGP card with a 62MHz bus at that FSB? I have no idea what it's doing to the PCI, if anything (probably OC'd like mad or underclocked like the AGP).
I'd like to go a little further, but every H/W monitor on the board is flakey. My CPUs temps actually drop under load They've run anywhere from 19C to 48C aircooled (er, in a 27C room). Needless to say, I don't want to push it without knowing where the temp really is.
Anyway, I am still not 100% sold on the Dragon and am keeping my options open. I know my local store has the 4G4A+ on the shelf (like 800 of them and I know it has solid PCI/AGP locks, will run 160+FSB and has semi-decent DDR multipliers. How about memory voltage?
Any info is appreciated...