Hello people.
Well its been a long time since I was on the overclocking scene (last system was a dual celeron 550 on Abit BP7 which now acts as my devserver) and based on reviews on here, toms hardware and anandtech. I've decided to play again.
my spec is as follows
Abit NF7, XP2100 Tbred B with Volcano 9 +as3, 2x256 pc2700 cas 2.5 DDR with cm al hs, Gainward ti-4800se 64MB with TT cooler and mem hs's, 80GB ata133 HDD. 550W PSU, aerodynamic cabling.
Having read up on the forums i just want to check a couple of things.
a: to have any chance of getting 200MHz fsb APIC must be disabled?
b: can i fiddle with memory timings on std pc2700 cas 2.5 ram ie aggressive setting etc?
c: Applying thermal compound, i take it you just apply it to the central cpu core (all my old processors have had a flat face)
d: Best way to overclock reliably is max fsb/minimum multiplier?
e: If the above is the case what do i have to do with regards memory/pci/agp to protect them.
Quite a few questions i know but with the cash i've spent i'd rather not get it wrong.
Cheers for any info you can give me. PS if there any more i should know please tell me.
Right off over to the GC section to get tips on overclocking my geforce4.
Well its been a long time since I was on the overclocking scene (last system was a dual celeron 550 on Abit BP7 which now acts as my devserver) and based on reviews on here, toms hardware and anandtech. I've decided to play again.
my spec is as follows
Abit NF7, XP2100 Tbred B with Volcano 9 +as3, 2x256 pc2700 cas 2.5 DDR with cm al hs, Gainward ti-4800se 64MB with TT cooler and mem hs's, 80GB ata133 HDD. 550W PSU, aerodynamic cabling.
Having read up on the forums i just want to check a couple of things.
a: to have any chance of getting 200MHz fsb APIC must be disabled?
b: can i fiddle with memory timings on std pc2700 cas 2.5 ram ie aggressive setting etc?
c: Applying thermal compound, i take it you just apply it to the central cpu core (all my old processors have had a flat face)
d: Best way to overclock reliably is max fsb/minimum multiplier?
e: If the above is the case what do i have to do with regards memory/pci/agp to protect them.
Quite a few questions i know but with the cash i've spent i'd rather not get it wrong.
Cheers for any info you can give me. PS if there any more i should know please tell me.
Right off over to the GC section to get tips on overclocking my geforce4.