speed check

[jordan]

i have a unlocked procesor on the abit kt7 (non-raid) board with pc 100 ram and a kick ass delta cooler, what would be the best settings to use to get maximum stable cpu speed?
Please post your settings if you have this chip and the same board-

voltage/multiplier/fsb/ etc,etc

thanks!

[Rob Cork]

Umm... what speed chip is it? :-)

[Bender]

All cpu's arent created equal so it is hard to say. Just play around and see what works best for you. I must be very lucky my duron 600 is rock solid at 1102.

[jordan]

Bender (Jan 21, 2001 05:33 p.m.):
All cpu's arent created equal so it is hard to say. Just play around and see what works best for you. I must be very lucky my duron 600 is rock solid at 1102.

>>>SORRY GUYS< IT IS A 1GHZ- where would be a good place to start with voltage/multiplier/fsb
also, with the abit kt7, how can i overclock my memory speed?

[Rob Cork]

Ok, you should take it to at least 1100 I'd have thought with good cooling - and that's probably being a bit conservative, I've heard of quite a few doing over 1200 recently. Keep your temps below 50C for ocing, preferably low 40's (it is quite possible with air cooling). As long as your temps are good, try for 11x100, and see what voltage it takes to get that stable, then if you've got some room to spare (voltage and temperature wise) crank it up to 11.5x100 and so on. Once you can't get stable at the next available multiplier, raise the fsb until it becomes unstable again. If you like you could also drop the multiplier down a bit and really pump up the fsb to get the same cpu speed, but better overall system performance. Have fun with it :-)

[jordan]

just curious, why is it that just about all the durons can be overclocked 30-40% on the average, but the 1gig thunderbirds only average a 10-15% OC??

[Rob Cork]

It's probably a combination of things - the durons have less cache, which I presume means less data is being transferred and stored within the cpu, and so there's less chance of errors at higher clock speeds - though of course I could be completely wrong. I think it's more likely that although durons have a pretty standard ceiling around 1.1gig, they are rated at speeds much less than that - 850 is the max available. We therefore see many duron 600/650s oc'ed to a gig or further, and hence see larger relative overclocks. The tbirds on the other hand have a ceiling of about 1200 for all but the 1.1/1.2gigs, which get to about 1300. Many of the tbirds oc'ed are 950s and 1gigs, so they have less MHz to go before hitting their ceiling. I think the duron design is capable of much more than AMD would have you think from the speeds they sold durons at - the only reason they sell them at slower speeds is to keep a market for the tbirds.

It's an interesting question, and I've thought about it before - these are just the answers I've come up with.