ReNeG@dE
02-23-01, 03:48 PM
I had my T-bird at 1.31GHz, but got bored so I thought I'd experiment some more... one thing I found was that setting FSB/PCI to 133/33 and then bumping up CPU Plus seemed to (so far) solve my weird mouse problems.... anyway so first I tried 9 x 150 booted up but was unstable so I set the mem to CAS3, seemed fine. I then tried CAS 2 again with VIO at 3.5 (or maybe 3.6 I can't remember...) and it seemed stable again (at least enough to run 3DMark, Sandra and Prime95 for a little bit (read 30 min :) )
This, of course, was still not good enough. So I upped it to 10 x 140. No post. Put VCore up to 1.80 and booted into windows but was not all that stable.. Now, don't ask me why I did this, but I decided to try 10 x 145... it started booting into windows and I nearly ***** my pants I was so amazed! Then came the registry errors and reboot... That kind of freaked me out, since I'd never received registry errors before, so I backed off to 9 x 145 @ 1.70V.
This seemed fine at first, but then I started having strange problems when I minimized certain folders... they would stop responding. I could end task them, it wouldn't lock the system, but every time I reopened them and tried minimizing them it would do the same thing... I tried backing it off to 8.5 x 145, but the same thing kept happening... At this point it was late so I shut it down, the next day I went back to 9 x 145 and everything seemed fine....
Anyway, the point of this is just to get some suggestions from you guys ( should I try getting to 1.4 again? or maybe 1.35? is the extra heat or CAS3 worth it?) and maybe to give some others some helpful information or a laugh at my expense :) Thanks
This, of course, was still not good enough. So I upped it to 10 x 140. No post. Put VCore up to 1.80 and booted into windows but was not all that stable.. Now, don't ask me why I did this, but I decided to try 10 x 145... it started booting into windows and I nearly ***** my pants I was so amazed! Then came the registry errors and reboot... That kind of freaked me out, since I'd never received registry errors before, so I backed off to 9 x 145 @ 1.70V.
This seemed fine at first, but then I started having strange problems when I minimized certain folders... they would stop responding. I could end task them, it wouldn't lock the system, but every time I reopened them and tried minimizing them it would do the same thing... I tried backing it off to 8.5 x 145, but the same thing kept happening... At this point it was late so I shut it down, the next day I went back to 9 x 145 and everything seemed fine....
Anyway, the point of this is just to get some suggestions from you guys ( should I try getting to 1.4 again? or maybe 1.35? is the extra heat or CAS3 worth it?) and maybe to give some others some helpful information or a laugh at my expense :) Thanks