Beast of a 2600 sempron s754

well, i got a new rig setup and decided to do a little testing.
heres the cpu info:
SDA2600AI02BA
LBBIX 0534 FPBW


this is on stock cooling and its the max volts i can give it, and i dont really want to give it any more.


i think im at the point where my motherboard is the limiting factor.


what do you guys think? should i try a bios upgrade to see if i get any improvements, or has this board reached its max?


btw, this is the setup:

Sempron 2600
1gb DDR400
MSI Neo Plat.

i would post what i got on super pi, but its just pathetic because of the L2 cache

That is a lot of voltage for that speed. are you sure you need it that high?

no, i just set it at max volts and started uping the HTT. i does need more than 1.5v though.

i think im going to flash to a newer bios because this bios only ranges from 1.5v - 1.8v

I doubt that a new BIOS will have a broader range, and even if it will, unless you're watercooled, I wouldn't recommend pumping more than 1.65v into that chip. It is 90nm after all.

thats true, i keep forgeting its not my old clawhammer

and i just flashed the bios, so im gonna try overclocking again.

128KB L2...*shudder*


New BIOS may help a little more though, so good luck.

IWasHungry said:

128KB L2...*shudder*

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About 1% difference than the larger cache ones.

when i ran super pi at 2ghz to compare it with my 3200, it was only off by about 6 seconds, which is probably due to the crappy RAM.

i wont have time to overclock again until tomorrow