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- Dec 26, 2001
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- Papillion, Nebraska
Hi all,
I'm trying to push my system to squeeze as much juice out of it as I can. I recently moved everything to an aluminum case with 4 fans and mounted an SK6 with a Sunon fan. My temps have dropped considerably, and event when pushing overclocking my temps are well below what they used to be in a stell case, so I think I've solved my cooling problems. However...
I've been dissappointed with the overclocking results. Everything is staying VERY cool at least, which is great. I haven't been able to push my 1.33tbird very high. I have it on an Asus A7V133, and the best I've been able to do is 143x10. Anything over that locks the system up, even when I bump up the voltage to the 1.85 max. Since it will boot into Windows even at 150x10 (but locks as soon as I attempt to run a program), and since I can run the 143x10 at standard voltage, I'm beginning to think its something else like RAM that's slowing me down. I know it's not heat, since I used to run the tbird stock and it would run 58.5c under load (it likes to run hot), and with all of my new cooling gear I can't get it past 51.5c (and it drops quickly after hitting that). I've had better luck overclocking my GeForce2 card (411memory and 225 core) which has helped performance dramatically. With my cooling problems solved, I was hoping to get the tbird running faster... The RAM I have has never given me any problems but I believe it's a generic brand. I have three sticks in the machine, two 128MB sticks and a (physicall smaller and newer) 256 MB stick. I'm going to try and pull the two 128MB sticks and see if I can push it harder with just the 256. I'm willing to replace all of the RAM with Crucial memory, but I don't want to do that if it won't make a difference.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Also, if this message should be posted elsewhere, I apologize and would appreciate it if someone would let me know where it would be best posted.
THANKS!
James
I'm trying to push my system to squeeze as much juice out of it as I can. I recently moved everything to an aluminum case with 4 fans and mounted an SK6 with a Sunon fan. My temps have dropped considerably, and event when pushing overclocking my temps are well below what they used to be in a stell case, so I think I've solved my cooling problems. However...
I've been dissappointed with the overclocking results. Everything is staying VERY cool at least, which is great. I haven't been able to push my 1.33tbird very high. I have it on an Asus A7V133, and the best I've been able to do is 143x10. Anything over that locks the system up, even when I bump up the voltage to the 1.85 max. Since it will boot into Windows even at 150x10 (but locks as soon as I attempt to run a program), and since I can run the 143x10 at standard voltage, I'm beginning to think its something else like RAM that's slowing me down. I know it's not heat, since I used to run the tbird stock and it would run 58.5c under load (it likes to run hot), and with all of my new cooling gear I can't get it past 51.5c (and it drops quickly after hitting that). I've had better luck overclocking my GeForce2 card (411memory and 225 core) which has helped performance dramatically. With my cooling problems solved, I was hoping to get the tbird running faster... The RAM I have has never given me any problems but I believe it's a generic brand. I have three sticks in the machine, two 128MB sticks and a (physicall smaller and newer) 256 MB stick. I'm going to try and pull the two 128MB sticks and see if I can push it harder with just the 256. I'm willing to replace all of the RAM with Crucial memory, but I don't want to do that if it won't make a difference.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Also, if this message should be posted elsewhere, I apologize and would appreciate it if someone would let me know where it would be best posted.
THANKS!
James