I don't have alot of extra money but i've been trying to put together a system for cheap that will be sufficient for the next generation of games, games such as doom 3.
I did some homework right around mid-year and I picked up an asus a7s333, and a geforce 4 mx 440, and 256 megabytes of pc2100 ram.
I set that stuff up a few months ago. I wanted to go fairly cheap with the board and the card so that I could get a good CPU, so yesterday I got an amd xp 2400. Okay so far so good, I put in the CPU yesterday and everything started off as planned. I decided i'd run it for a day at stock and monitor everything, get it worn in a little and to monitor my temps. Well my temps were at 40C exactly @ stock speed while it was just sitting there and at full load (running battlefield 1942 for over an hour). I set my asus probe so that it will shut it down if any of the voltage readings drop 5%, its set to shut off if the temp is 57C (lowest). Essentially, I gave it the least amount of slack to run away on me in case of a problem. Well today I clocked up the bus from 266(133) to 280(140) giving me 2100mhz. I looked at the temps when started up it says 40C, then I ran it in bf 1942 for an hour and I checked them very quickly and it said 40C. Okay so what am I missing here the processor doesn't create any more heat under full load than when relaxed, and the heat did not change at all from 2000mhz to 2100mhz. I take it this is a good thing. I just wondering how often this happens or if it is a common thing for overclocks this conservative? Anyways I overclocked the video card also from (core)270@320(memory)405@450. I mean this is all very good since it was pretty cheap and it seems to run stuff well. Right now i have a nice big fan on top of it and it is as sealed up as i can possibly get. My question is, what would be considered a safe course of action from here, should i continue to clock it up and see if it stays at 40C?? Or should i leave it, or should i go back to 2000mhz. I mean I don't exactly have alot of money to blow so if this thing blows up I might be using an old BCM motherboard, and an athlon thunderbird, and that would suck! lol, thoughts, comments, critics, please drown me in your experience. Also can anybody guess off the top of thier head what a system like this might do 3dmark2001. at 1027X768 I did roughly 7000 with everything stock. The OS hasn't been reinstalled for awhile or drives defragmented, its only 256mb of ram also so I imagine that this is not the optimum conditions for that benchmark. I would imagine with everything mildly overclocked and a reinstall that this could be alot better, i'm guessing at most 8000-8500. Maybe that is unrealistic I am not sure.
I did some homework right around mid-year and I picked up an asus a7s333, and a geforce 4 mx 440, and 256 megabytes of pc2100 ram.
I set that stuff up a few months ago. I wanted to go fairly cheap with the board and the card so that I could get a good CPU, so yesterday I got an amd xp 2400. Okay so far so good, I put in the CPU yesterday and everything started off as planned. I decided i'd run it for a day at stock and monitor everything, get it worn in a little and to monitor my temps. Well my temps were at 40C exactly @ stock speed while it was just sitting there and at full load (running battlefield 1942 for over an hour). I set my asus probe so that it will shut it down if any of the voltage readings drop 5%, its set to shut off if the temp is 57C (lowest). Essentially, I gave it the least amount of slack to run away on me in case of a problem. Well today I clocked up the bus from 266(133) to 280(140) giving me 2100mhz. I looked at the temps when started up it says 40C, then I ran it in bf 1942 for an hour and I checked them very quickly and it said 40C. Okay so what am I missing here the processor doesn't create any more heat under full load than when relaxed, and the heat did not change at all from 2000mhz to 2100mhz. I take it this is a good thing. I just wondering how often this happens or if it is a common thing for overclocks this conservative? Anyways I overclocked the video card also from (core)270@320(memory)405@450. I mean this is all very good since it was pretty cheap and it seems to run stuff well. Right now i have a nice big fan on top of it and it is as sealed up as i can possibly get. My question is, what would be considered a safe course of action from here, should i continue to clock it up and see if it stays at 40C?? Or should i leave it, or should i go back to 2000mhz. I mean I don't exactly have alot of money to blow so if this thing blows up I might be using an old BCM motherboard, and an athlon thunderbird, and that would suck! lol, thoughts, comments, critics, please drown me in your experience. Also can anybody guess off the top of thier head what a system like this might do 3dmark2001. at 1027X768 I did roughly 7000 with everything stock. The OS hasn't been reinstalled for awhile or drives defragmented, its only 256mb of ram also so I imagine that this is not the optimum conditions for that benchmark. I would imagine with everything mildly overclocked and a reinstall that this could be alot better, i'm guessing at most 8000-8500. Maybe that is unrealistic I am not sure.