Dabljuh
01-05-02, 09:29 PM
Ok, I finally put my system in the siggie. My prob looks like this. I bought a sys a month or two ago and I dont seem to be able to get it the cpu at a reasonable speed... (Seem to stuck at 1.6+ghz)
thats the CPU, an Athlon XP 1600+ AGKGA Y. here's the complete scripture
AX1600DMT3C
AGKGA 0131MPMW
Y6809350703
First I replaced the bull**** fan (the only one I could get at this time) with a swifty. Hard to get around here. I finally reached 153x10.5 (1.61 GHZ)
I found that I should attempt to unlock the cpu. I learned that conductive silver lacque is illegal in this country. Bad. I tried a lot of different stuff, including a self-made paste of graphite and acrylic lacque, nothing worked. Finally I went to foreign and bought conductive silver stuff. (hell of an expense). back home, i spent two days painting the cpu. during various mispaintings, I went through almost any multiplier possible, but was never able to change it. I decided that the mobo was the reason, and have an unlocked xp at a multi of 10 at around 160mhz fsb. Anything higher would make the system unstable.
Because I had great trouble on the 5V line, including random reboots and voltages dropping below 4.7 and stuff, I bought me a nice Enermax 431. Plus a case. once again, hell of an expense. The system looks good now, and the 5V is really dream-like, but I DONT GET HIGHER THAN BEFORE. The sys is somewhat more stable now since the old 300W PSU was really exhausted, but I'm still at a max of 163 mhz fsb x 10...
Its not the ram. Setting it to 133:100 ratio wouldnt help. Its not the graphics card, since no matter what multiplier I set, the cpu stops working correctly at 1.6 ghz. Its neither anything else. Its the CPU.
The point is - I got a very expensive Swifty on it. I got a great PSU, and a case temp equal ambient temp + 2°C. CPU temp never exceedes 40°C. At 1.75V, its stable up to 1.6ghz, but when I go as high as 1.64, the voltage demands skyrocket to a point where I would need a voltage mod on the mobo - and at this rate, (from 1.75 at 1.6 ghz to 1.85 at 1.64 ghz) a volt mod (to 2.1V) would bring me probably a speed of 1.7 ghz - This is by far not worth the risk and trouble of volt-modding the board.
So can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? This cant just be, I read somewhere the exact stepping I got would be one of the best to overclock - up to 1.75 ghz w/o volt modding. I do not believe in luck (being given a "bad" cpu wouldnt be called luck, though) so what am I doing wrong?
Right now, I run it with 163x10 - everything is running fine (sound, network, graphic), but not being able to clock higher really ****es me on. This is the second post where I ask for help, the first one was because of the PSU - when I was told that a PSU would improve my situation. It did, but not as much as I hoped...
thats the CPU, an Athlon XP 1600+ AGKGA Y. here's the complete scripture
AX1600DMT3C
AGKGA 0131MPMW
Y6809350703
First I replaced the bull**** fan (the only one I could get at this time) with a swifty. Hard to get around here. I finally reached 153x10.5 (1.61 GHZ)
I found that I should attempt to unlock the cpu. I learned that conductive silver lacque is illegal in this country. Bad. I tried a lot of different stuff, including a self-made paste of graphite and acrylic lacque, nothing worked. Finally I went to foreign and bought conductive silver stuff. (hell of an expense). back home, i spent two days painting the cpu. during various mispaintings, I went through almost any multiplier possible, but was never able to change it. I decided that the mobo was the reason, and have an unlocked xp at a multi of 10 at around 160mhz fsb. Anything higher would make the system unstable.
Because I had great trouble on the 5V line, including random reboots and voltages dropping below 4.7 and stuff, I bought me a nice Enermax 431. Plus a case. once again, hell of an expense. The system looks good now, and the 5V is really dream-like, but I DONT GET HIGHER THAN BEFORE. The sys is somewhat more stable now since the old 300W PSU was really exhausted, but I'm still at a max of 163 mhz fsb x 10...
Its not the ram. Setting it to 133:100 ratio wouldnt help. Its not the graphics card, since no matter what multiplier I set, the cpu stops working correctly at 1.6 ghz. Its neither anything else. Its the CPU.
The point is - I got a very expensive Swifty on it. I got a great PSU, and a case temp equal ambient temp + 2°C. CPU temp never exceedes 40°C. At 1.75V, its stable up to 1.6ghz, but when I go as high as 1.64, the voltage demands skyrocket to a point where I would need a voltage mod on the mobo - and at this rate, (from 1.75 at 1.6 ghz to 1.85 at 1.64 ghz) a volt mod (to 2.1V) would bring me probably a speed of 1.7 ghz - This is by far not worth the risk and trouble of volt-modding the board.
So can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? This cant just be, I read somewhere the exact stepping I got would be one of the best to overclock - up to 1.75 ghz w/o volt modding. I do not believe in luck (being given a "bad" cpu wouldnt be called luck, though) so what am I doing wrong?
Right now, I run it with 163x10 - everything is running fine (sound, network, graphic), but not being able to clock higher really ****es me on. This is the second post where I ask for help, the first one was because of the PSU - when I was told that a PSU would improve my situation. It did, but not as much as I hoped...