- Joined
- Apr 11, 2002
- Location
- D.C. Metro
Well I just put together a new bargin rig from a pile of parts but jumped for a new MB and CPU. heres the system...
ECS K7S5A pro rev 5.0
AMD athlon 1.33ghz
Volcano 6cu HSF
384m PC133 ram (256 & 128MB stick)
WD 80Gig HD
Soundblaster Live 5.1 sound
radeon 7200 vid
IOMajic DVD-RW
turbolink 420W PSU
Chieftec case
VCore is at 1.792 as reported by CPUID
I am using CPUFSB to raise my CPU to speeds of 1435.2mh. MBM-5is reporting cpu temps of 38C and case temps of 27C. this is under normal use, ie internet, win media player, with a cpu load of 5%. (jeez on my old system by gateway it would be sitting at 45% CPU load right now... but that was a slot 1 850mhz amd processor.)
When I try to run Prime95 it starts and then gives me a fatal error and stops, but my rig continues running good. Why is this? I have caused it to crash once by jacking the settings in CPUFSB to make it run a 1550.9MHZ. it diddnt like it and shut down. oops. I figure if I kill this one it only cost me 30 bucks off NewEgg. Oh well Ill buy a new one nstead of a bottle of Tequila next week.
My system has been running good at 1449.6MHZ for a week, but suddenly tonight it diddnt like it and started to hang when ever I tried too do something. I lowered it to run ar 1360 and it ran good. Now I am slowly brinning it back up to a faster speed.
what happened? am I slowly killing this little thunderbirdie?
also is it really "OverClocking" if I am using a prog like CPUFSB? I feel like I am cheating or not really doing anything. I read here about guys cutting bridges or blasting them with a 9V battery... (that scares me to think about.) And connecting others with conductive paint...
What else can I do to this? My MB does not support multipliers or voltage settings. I am considering the pin mod (wire mod? what ever it is called...) I ust want to play with this, change things and watch hat they do untill I fry this chip. Like I said it wont be hard to replace.... Give me some Ideas.
also what are the Steppings everyone talks about? My core has the code AYHJA. Thats the stepping right? I found write ups for these on Pally cores and Tbreds, but not for the thunderbird. but I still dont understand what it means?
I know these are a bunch of stupid newbie questins, but I am trying to learn, and mess up on a cheap system before I sspend money on a good system that I wouldnt want to kill with a newbies dumb mistakes.
Thank you for the responces tha I am sure I will get from you guys.
Mike
ECS K7S5A pro rev 5.0
AMD athlon 1.33ghz
Volcano 6cu HSF
384m PC133 ram (256 & 128MB stick)
WD 80Gig HD
Soundblaster Live 5.1 sound
radeon 7200 vid
IOMajic DVD-RW
turbolink 420W PSU
Chieftec case
VCore is at 1.792 as reported by CPUID
I am using CPUFSB to raise my CPU to speeds of 1435.2mh. MBM-5is reporting cpu temps of 38C and case temps of 27C. this is under normal use, ie internet, win media player, with a cpu load of 5%. (jeez on my old system by gateway it would be sitting at 45% CPU load right now... but that was a slot 1 850mhz amd processor.)
When I try to run Prime95 it starts and then gives me a fatal error and stops, but my rig continues running good. Why is this? I have caused it to crash once by jacking the settings in CPUFSB to make it run a 1550.9MHZ. it diddnt like it and shut down. oops. I figure if I kill this one it only cost me 30 bucks off NewEgg. Oh well Ill buy a new one nstead of a bottle of Tequila next week.
My system has been running good at 1449.6MHZ for a week, but suddenly tonight it diddnt like it and started to hang when ever I tried too do something. I lowered it to run ar 1360 and it ran good. Now I am slowly brinning it back up to a faster speed.
what happened? am I slowly killing this little thunderbirdie?
also is it really "OverClocking" if I am using a prog like CPUFSB? I feel like I am cheating or not really doing anything. I read here about guys cutting bridges or blasting them with a 9V battery... (that scares me to think about.) And connecting others with conductive paint...
What else can I do to this? My MB does not support multipliers or voltage settings. I am considering the pin mod (wire mod? what ever it is called...) I ust want to play with this, change things and watch hat they do untill I fry this chip. Like I said it wont be hard to replace.... Give me some Ideas.
also what are the Steppings everyone talks about? My core has the code AYHJA. Thats the stepping right? I found write ups for these on Pally cores and Tbreds, but not for the thunderbird. but I still dont understand what it means?
I know these are a bunch of stupid newbie questins, but I am trying to learn, and mess up on a cheap system before I sspend money on a good system that I wouldnt want to kill with a newbies dumb mistakes.
Thank you for the responces tha I am sure I will get from you guys.
Mike
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