XP2200+ Capabilities

[walkitiki]

I have an AMD XP2200+ (not t-bred) along with a Gigabyte motherboard and a Radeon 9500. Now when the FSB gets set anywhere above 140 the system will lock up and when I reboot windows blames the radeon drivers for the freeze. I'm sure that I can get more out of my cpu than this and I was wondering if anyone knew how to remedy this situation. Thanks in advance--

_tiki

[Tyranos]

Learn more about your motherboard. Check your default system speed and make sure its on 133. You have pc2100 memory as well. Your motherboard doesn't have a pci/agp lock.

More information would be prudent to helping your situation.

[c627627]

Your PC2100 ram is 133 FSB. 140 appears to be the limit for it.

I got 152 FSB out of my Crucial and Kingston PC2100 but that's it.

Also, 2200+ is the highest T-Bred A to be manufactured. That means there is very little overclocking headroom for it.

T-Bred A's scale to 2200+ and T-Bred B's scale to 2800+.
That gives you an idea what the OC headroom is.

That's why 1700+ T-Bred B overclocks to slightly higher than 2800+ on average.


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[walkitiki]

The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-7VAXP with the VIA KT400 chipset...is it worth upgrading to better memory or would it be easier to just set the multipier higher?

someone should probably move this to the memory forum...

[emericanchaos]

higher multi's usually don't gain nearly as much performance as FSB overclocks. it really depends on what you do with the machine. if you're compressing video or mp3's or something of that nature then a high clock will help alot. with video editing memory bandwidth also helps but usually a high clock in general is good.

for gaming memory bandwidth is what helps the most.

in your situation you have PC2100 that doesn't want to do much more then 140 and a motherboard with a 1/5 PCI divisor. the 1/5 divisor means your PCI bus runs at one fifth of your FSB. so my approach would be to take the speeds memory can run at and divide by 5 to see what a stable PCI speed would be. in this case PC2700 would be a good bet for you because you can do 166FSB at 33 PCI. most PC2700 is capable of doing around 180's FSB. 180/5 is 36PCI. around 38PCI is where things can get hairy and going over 39PCI isn't recommended for fear of scrambling your hard drives. so i'd say to get some pc2700. that should be enough to push as far as that board will let you without breaking the bank.

[Phoenix87]

I run completely stable at 1950mhz@1.7v on my xp2200 :cool: . Its at 145/38 I believe. I can go higher but computer locks up while running games. Using a ASUS A7V8X-X.

I dont even get over 47c on load. And this even with the stock HSF! :eek:

[seiferoth10]

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temp at 40C as i type this