- Joined
- Feb 20, 2004
- Location
- Murfreesboro, TN
Well, after months of anticipation, I finally have most of my system set up. My case needs a lot of mod work to improve the air flow (the front section has three fans, but they're all behind rather bulky built-in grills, which are in turn behind an air filter of sorts, which in turn are behind a grill with much smaller holes, and all of them are off center. So I took out the first grill and air filter, and am going to cut out the front of the case and replace it with a sheet of aluminum and cut my own fan holes so they're going straight down the middle. But I digresss ...).
Just thought I would share what I've got so far. I still want to lap my SP-97, as it looked like it could use it. I'm at 2.9V for the vdimm in the bios, and 1.65V for the vcore, though CPU-Z reports a vcore of 1.616V and MBM5 reports it at 1.62 - 1.63V. I have yet to bust out the multimeter, so if someone wants to point me to some voltage read points for an NF7-S v2, that'd be great.
Sorry for the filesize ... I don't have PhotoShop installed on this new rig yet, so I had to use MS Paint.
I haven't run a Prime95 test for this yet. I tested Prime stable 12+ hours at 2300 Mhz (11.5 x 200), and today was the first day I bumped it up to 2400. I ran 10 passes of MemTest86 error free today with my ram set to 218. I tried booting at 8 x 220 the other day to max out my FSB, and it wouldn't boot at times, other times hung on the bootup screen, and made it to windows once. I haven't tried 219 yet with a low multiplier, but if it can take it, it looks like that's gonna be my limit with a vdimm mod (which I'm waiting on my soldering skills to improve before trying).
My max load temp, using Prime's In-Place Large FFT's for max heat and power consumption, was 44°C during the warmest day we've had in our house ... normally Prime gives me 42 - 43°C max, and in the evenings, around 40 - 41°C. The heating and cooling distribution in our house is terrible, though. When it's 69°F in the back bedroom, the kitchen can get to 75°F. So I think I've still got some more room to play with it. I'm willing to take it to 50°C load, so we'll see.
Anywho, I've been hanging out with you guys and sharing my sob stories about getting parts together since February, so I thought it was time to post some results.
Take care,
Dave
PS - Oh, and for reference ... that PIII 500 comparison score is there because that's the CPU I've been running for the past 5 years. Quite a noticeable difference after the switchover.
Just thought I would share what I've got so far. I still want to lap my SP-97, as it looked like it could use it. I'm at 2.9V for the vdimm in the bios, and 1.65V for the vcore, though CPU-Z reports a vcore of 1.616V and MBM5 reports it at 1.62 - 1.63V. I have yet to bust out the multimeter, so if someone wants to point me to some voltage read points for an NF7-S v2, that'd be great.
Sorry for the filesize ... I don't have PhotoShop installed on this new rig yet, so I had to use MS Paint.
I haven't run a Prime95 test for this yet. I tested Prime stable 12+ hours at 2300 Mhz (11.5 x 200), and today was the first day I bumped it up to 2400. I ran 10 passes of MemTest86 error free today with my ram set to 218. I tried booting at 8 x 220 the other day to max out my FSB, and it wouldn't boot at times, other times hung on the bootup screen, and made it to windows once. I haven't tried 219 yet with a low multiplier, but if it can take it, it looks like that's gonna be my limit with a vdimm mod (which I'm waiting on my soldering skills to improve before trying).
My max load temp, using Prime's In-Place Large FFT's for max heat and power consumption, was 44°C during the warmest day we've had in our house ... normally Prime gives me 42 - 43°C max, and in the evenings, around 40 - 41°C. The heating and cooling distribution in our house is terrible, though. When it's 69°F in the back bedroom, the kitchen can get to 75°F. So I think I've still got some more room to play with it. I'm willing to take it to 50°C load, so we'll see.
Anywho, I've been hanging out with you guys and sharing my sob stories about getting parts together since February, so I thought it was time to post some results.
Take care,
Dave
PS - Oh, and for reference ... that PIII 500 comparison score is there because that's the CPU I've been running for the past 5 years. Quite a noticeable difference after the switchover.
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