- Joined
- Dec 27, 2002
- Location
- reno, nevada
Hi.
Im new here to the board and the whole overclocking world.
I have been wanting some more performance from my current computer. I have a Dell Dimension 4100 which has a 933 pentiumIII, 128mb s.d.RAM, 20g.b.harddrive,and a g-force2MXwith only 32mb on it.
I would like to try my hand at overclocking but I dont what motherboard I have. I am sure it is not friendly for such things.
So in looking around I found a motherboard from Soyo that looks good to me.
However I have a few questions.
It is the SOYO 7VDA it uses the Via Apollo chipset and says that it supports either pc 1600 or pc 2100 DDR upto 1.5 GB.
So I was wondering do you think I could use the new 433mhz DDR, since it will be operating on only one side of the clock pulse(I assume) then that would give me 216.5mhz to work with.
I think that would be good for the overclock probably help stability and so on. I just need to know if it would work?
Also another big question I have is that there is no manual wat to lock-out the PCI or AGP, such as jumpers or dip-switches.
Instead the Soyo homepage says that it can be locked using BIOS settings.
So imwondering if this is an effective way of setting the PCI and AGP or do I really need the manual on-board settings?
It says that it also supports Ultra ATA 100 is this a could harddrive system?
Thanx alot
Im new here to the board and the whole overclocking world.
I have been wanting some more performance from my current computer. I have a Dell Dimension 4100 which has a 933 pentiumIII, 128mb s.d.RAM, 20g.b.harddrive,and a g-force2MXwith only 32mb on it.
I would like to try my hand at overclocking but I dont what motherboard I have. I am sure it is not friendly for such things.
So in looking around I found a motherboard from Soyo that looks good to me.
However I have a few questions.
It is the SOYO 7VDA it uses the Via Apollo chipset and says that it supports either pc 1600 or pc 2100 DDR upto 1.5 GB.
So I was wondering do you think I could use the new 433mhz DDR, since it will be operating on only one side of the clock pulse(I assume) then that would give me 216.5mhz to work with.
I think that would be good for the overclock probably help stability and so on. I just need to know if it would work?
Also another big question I have is that there is no manual wat to lock-out the PCI or AGP, such as jumpers or dip-switches.
Instead the Soyo homepage says that it can be locked using BIOS settings.
So imwondering if this is an effective way of setting the PCI and AGP or do I really need the manual on-board settings?
It says that it also supports Ultra ATA 100 is this a could harddrive system?
Thanx alot