my lowly O/C

[Jeniva]

here is My Lowely OC....its a xp1700+ at 1551..i stopped it there cuz its a cool number :beer:

[Jeniva]

just made 1567..im going in 1 increment steps..all air cooling..runs @ 93F... +.025Vcore increase

[Jeniva]

still running the +.025 Vcore...now at 1.578Ghz..XP 1900+ speeds

[edit..oh yea,,,temps...Full load 35c..not to bad for Air cooling huh?]
[EDIT#2: well...it seems that 1.578Ghz is goinf to be my max with this Poor Quality DDR...it doesnt like the FSB much...Just Ordered Crucial...I'll test it VS this no name crap from the PC store up the street]

[rogerdugans]

Looking good!

One weird thing I found with my xp 1800 ( I use cheap ram in everything!): I must have hit a bus divider at 150 fsb because I couldn't run the thing past {I think} 140 or so, but one night I got fed up and shot to 150 and it has been rock stacble since! MSI KT266 mobo.

*The chip is unlocked, but I can't add any multi without being unstable, so that seems to be IT for that chip. Zero crashes or errors though.

[Jeniva]

thats the trouble I have...maybe i'll jump up to 150FSB and see what happens...its running stable at 1578..Ben running Folding @ home all night and its running at 35c the chip is a AGKGA "9"

[Jeniva]

Wooohoo..that was it...I knocked my core voltage up +.050 and increased the FSB to 150.. 1650Mhz!!...not bad fon an XP1700+

Its currently running at 37c...but im sure it will go up....Its seems to be stable right now..we'll see how it goes...

Thanx for the Idea about jumping up to 150 FSB:D time to celebrate :beer:

[reidroach]

lol. cool grats on your oc! wich i had a xp! just got a 1.4 tbird

[Rezman5]

are those temps at load or idle? Use something like folding@Home to test load.

[Jeniva]

Those are my Temps Full Load..I am Running Folding@home...all the time.,...the ambient temp in my computer room is roughly 70f...the Case temps are 75f, and the CPU temp is 93-95f..or 35c for CPU and 24c for case temp

[rogerdugans]

COOL! No one else seems to have found the same results with an XP as mine......until now! I thought I might have a mutant chip or something:D

My temps run around 68f ambient and 33/35c case 34/35c cpu, so your temps might stay right about there.

Temps are full load, btw, but Seti in my case:)

[Myself and I]

MSI uses a different thermastat than the other boards.
my abit kr7a xp2000+ idles at 43 . on my msi board it idled at 34c


TO really bench a system run unreal Tournament and Quake 3 at max detail settings at that overclock you have and then come back and tell me if your system locked out or not. make sure you play for at least 15 min and then check your load temsp if your system can take that much stress. also make sure your at 1600*1200 res and if it passes you have a stable system.

[Jeniva]

Originally posted by Myself and I
MSI uses a different thermastat than the other boards.
my abit kr7a xp2000+ idles at 43 . on my msi board it idled at 34c


TO really bench a system run unreal Tournament and Quake 3 at max detail settings at that overclock you have and then come back and tell me if your system locked out or not. make sure you play for at least 15 min and then check your load temsp if your system can take that much stress. also make sure your at 1600*1200 res and if it passes you have a stable system.

well..i can run prome95 for hours straight and it never locks up...Im still chugging along at 1650Mhz...as for UT, I dont have it.
And lol....this monitor is so old it wont support anything above 1024*768.

[rogerdugans]

I don't have Unreal, Q3 OR a monitor that goes that high!

But there are more ways to test stability than gaming: Sandra for one, time testing for another.

My old duallie 400 was up for over a year- no reboots- using WinNT 4.0 Server. I guess that was stable.

I'd try to repeat that with the new machines but I keep changing comonents and trying to tweak a few more mhz out of 'em!

[sangram]

Hi

I'm a casual overclocker. I had done 150 FSB with an XP 1500+ on a Soltek DRV2, with mem timings backed right off.

The machine ran 100% stable for 3 days running Folding, not a single lockup or BSOD. I had already burnt the memory in using simmtester, at 150 FSB. Sandra ran just fine (I use a pretty old version, which has the P4 1.5 Ghz and the Athlon 1 gig at the top. Can't afford an upgrade. :(

On day 3, I tried to switch on NFS5:Porsche. The machine restarted, ending 3 days of Folding effort. It ran fine the whole day, then I tried Serious SAM, Test version. true to its name, it crashed again. Games ran stably at 140 FSB, but no higher. I'm back at 133, having explored the limits.

I think games stress the system a little more than a bench, I'm not sure why but I've seen higher temps while gaming, than I have with Folding or Sandra.

Sang