XP 2000 and A7V333

[Lambers]

I just bought an A7V333 and am putting a XP 2000 on it for now, I was just curious what everyone is running for voltage and so on, I want to run it as fast as possible so let me know how you are cooling it too. I have a Lian Li case with 4 intake fans (2 front, 2 side) and 3 blow holes (1 back, 2 top) I also have a fan on the top of my Geforce and there will be a 92mm on the processor.

Thanx
Lambers

[xMephistoNx]

Hmm.. Well for starters i would do something about your case. It sounds like a real mess, Air coming from 2 directions and leaving through another 2 doesn't sounds very efficent.

Optimally you should have air coming from the bottom of the case and out the top somewhere.

This will create a nice airflow through the case, and gather heat along the way. With having tons of air being pumped into the case from different directions you probally have a lot of air colling with each other and standing still in the case.

Now, as for voltage, i think 1.825 is a safe maximum for air cooling.

Basically just bump things up a bit at a time and keep an eye on the temps. An overclocked athlon should not exceed 45 load (at least my chip anyways).

Running at default and a crappy cooler, my chip would run at 62 idle and be perfectly stable, but when overclocked, if my chip goes over 45 it will become unstable and crash.

With my current setup, now that it's cooler out my chip stays at about 40 Full Load.

[residentevil2]

read my sig heheh

[OC Detective]

Unless you are using water cooling stick with setting the Vcore at 1.85 (actually it is about 1.87V) in the BIOS. I think AMD recommends a maximum of 1.85. If you dont unlock the chip you will probably max out around 1.8 - 1.85Ghz.

[jszent]

Lam,
I run my mobo which is the same as yours at 1.80 in xp runs great,but it depends on how much you overclock to. That is ths factor that really tells you how much core to use.

[maxima88]

I only set my vcore to 1.80 (which reads as 1.87 in mbm5 and the bios hardware monitor) only at CPU speeds above 1.80Ghz. Anything slower than that, I set the vcore back to 1.75v.

[deathstar13]

yeh try and keep as little voltage on it as u can and keep it stable.just watch the temps.and keep an eye on your psu rails. this is eaten my 300 cheapo psu up. my 5v rail dropped to 4.67 runnning toast. makes ocing very hard.

[Ge|atinousFury]

I have an A7V333 and an XP200+, oc'ed to 1837.5 mhz at 1.85v. My system is watercooled, so very soon I'm going to try the overvolt jumper to put the vcore over 2 volts. Hopefully I can break through to some new speeds.

Oh yeah, WELCOME TO THE FORUMS AND HAVE FUN!!!!

[Lambers]

Thanks for all the examples, that exactly what I was looking for. About the case cooling, the two front fans and the side fans are all low, the side fans are in the rear they keep air flowing fro the bottom rear up, so there are no hotspots under the graphics card, the one rear blowwhole is right behing the processor, and the two top are centerd. I have tested airflow with smoke (insence) and it's great, in fact in my current set up with the fans on low I get 5 cooler, and with the fans on high I get 10 cooler than with fans off (CPU temp)

Thanx again all and thanx for the welcome to the forum

[residentevil2]

I always keep my cpu on 1.82 wich for me is 1.87 bein reported i want to stay away from 1.90 since it only gives me 20 mhz more not much for the price of life overtime