- Joined
- Dec 3, 2002
- Location
- North Dakota
Hello everyone... Well this is my fist time O/Cing intel since my 233MMX from back in the day... This is my setup:
IC7 Bios 1.3
PIV 2.4c @ Default voltage Mal plant
Cosair 2x 256MB PC3500C2
Zalman CNPS 7000-Cu
BBA 9700pro @ 391/335 Cat 3.4 8x AGP w/ Zalman HSF
SB Live 5.1
3Com 10/100 TX NIC
IBM Deskstar 40GB
Thermaltake Truepower 420w PSU
Well let me tell you.... I just upgraded from a 1.4 TBird... This thing as only 2.4ghz flys compaired to my old setup... The Duel DDR might be a good factor in that... I installed everything into my OLD OUTDATED case and procedded to power it up...
I get power to the board but it won't start up... I start double checking everything all my connections and what not and try again... Still no go... I start to freak thinking I got a bad IC7 that I've been reading about... Well I start to unplug my drives and thought I would give it a go with just the MB hooked to the PSU... Sure enough 3 seconds after I hit the power button it starts up... So I start to plug in each device and power up between each device... Now I have everything hooked up and the system starts to post the instant I press the power button... (I guess the Capaitors had to charge up maybe I don't know)... First thing I did was Flash the BIOS to 1.3 then I install a fresh copy of XP Pro and the inf Drivers... Now it's time to see what this thing can do... For the first try I go with a FSB800 Strap, 5:4 Memory ratio, 270 FSB, 1.8 DDRv, and Lock PCI/AGP... Nothing happens... it won't power again... I clear CMOS... Go back in and set everything the same cept I set PCI/AGP to auto and go with a 272 FBS... Sure enough it posts and literally flys into windows... I'm at 3.26ghz with HT enabled... And I'm running my PC3500 Ram at DDR 438 which is just slightly O/Ced...
First thing I do is run 3DMark2001SE... HOLY ****... I got 19,312 marks.... I just about crapped my pants... I'm very impressed with this where it is... I'm going to go higher but I'm going to BURN it IN at 3.26 for a few days before I start to push it harder...
Only one problem I have and that is with F@H.... It will only 50% CPU probably cause HT is enabled and it's only useing the so called one processor as my Idle is exactly 50%.... Does anyone know how I can fix this so I can use 100% when I'm at Idle??? I rather use F@H to burn in as it will help out humanity and people seem to srart getting strangh things after runnign Prime95 for more than a day... Usually Hardware failers and I'm just going to see if F@H will not do the same...
This is a Grand Board I would recomend this board to anyone wanting a 875 chipset... I also got a Malasia <--can't spell 2.4c OEM all from Newegg for a good price.... I feel that this thing will do 3.4ghz without to much work...
Maglin
IC7 Bios 1.3
PIV 2.4c @ Default voltage Mal plant
Cosair 2x 256MB PC3500C2
Zalman CNPS 7000-Cu
BBA 9700pro @ 391/335 Cat 3.4 8x AGP w/ Zalman HSF
SB Live 5.1
3Com 10/100 TX NIC
IBM Deskstar 40GB
Thermaltake Truepower 420w PSU
Well let me tell you.... I just upgraded from a 1.4 TBird... This thing as only 2.4ghz flys compaired to my old setup... The Duel DDR might be a good factor in that... I installed everything into my OLD OUTDATED case and procedded to power it up...
I get power to the board but it won't start up... I start double checking everything all my connections and what not and try again... Still no go... I start to freak thinking I got a bad IC7 that I've been reading about... Well I start to unplug my drives and thought I would give it a go with just the MB hooked to the PSU... Sure enough 3 seconds after I hit the power button it starts up... So I start to plug in each device and power up between each device... Now I have everything hooked up and the system starts to post the instant I press the power button... (I guess the Capaitors had to charge up maybe I don't know)... First thing I did was Flash the BIOS to 1.3 then I install a fresh copy of XP Pro and the inf Drivers... Now it's time to see what this thing can do... For the first try I go with a FSB800 Strap, 5:4 Memory ratio, 270 FSB, 1.8 DDRv, and Lock PCI/AGP... Nothing happens... it won't power again... I clear CMOS... Go back in and set everything the same cept I set PCI/AGP to auto and go with a 272 FBS... Sure enough it posts and literally flys into windows... I'm at 3.26ghz with HT enabled... And I'm running my PC3500 Ram at DDR 438 which is just slightly O/Ced...
First thing I do is run 3DMark2001SE... HOLY ****... I got 19,312 marks.... I just about crapped my pants... I'm very impressed with this where it is... I'm going to go higher but I'm going to BURN it IN at 3.26 for a few days before I start to push it harder...
Only one problem I have and that is with F@H.... It will only 50% CPU probably cause HT is enabled and it's only useing the so called one processor as my Idle is exactly 50%.... Does anyone know how I can fix this so I can use 100% when I'm at Idle??? I rather use F@H to burn in as it will help out humanity and people seem to srart getting strangh things after runnign Prime95 for more than a day... Usually Hardware failers and I'm just going to see if F@H will not do the same...
This is a Grand Board I would recomend this board to anyone wanting a 875 chipset... I also got a Malasia <--can't spell 2.4c OEM all from Newegg for a good price.... I feel that this thing will do 3.4ghz without to much work...
Maglin