I got pre-tested P4 NW 1.6 that runs at 2.7 on TH7II Raid now.. I know that it can stably do 2.85 or more after I tweak all the possible things to the max, so to achieve that I have few questions:
1. I flashed Mr. Natural bios and it's working great.. no cold boot probs anymore. Big thanks to Mister N. for that ..anyway, about the fsb setting, which one is better in achieving best overclockability and stability: fixed or 1/5, 1/6 divider? I have read somewhere that if fixed setting is used in TH7II pci and agp will not be in right sync and that slows the system somewhat is certain situations.. is this true?
2. I'm going to make vmem mod for my Samsung rdram using 10k ohm adjustable resistor. Now I need to know how to measure the voltage that will go to rimms with a meter BEFORE I boot up the machine.. I would be "moderately" unhappy if my rimms burned up in the smoke because of overvoltage..
3. currently I have my one and only Maxtor 60GB harddisk connected to raid port, but since I don't use any raid setting I suppose there is no speed advantage in using HTP370 controller over the standard udma100 controller on TH7II? If I turn the raid controller off in bios and connect the hard disk to standard ide port, will it increase stability at high fsb:s (over 170)? (currently I have 2 cd-rom drives in the standard ide ports)
4. does it (even theoretically) increase stability at high fsb if I disable all the ports that I don't need such as usb and firewire?
5. is there any difference in stability (from irq sharing point of view or otherwise) in which pci slots I put my extension cards? I have 3 cards: SB Audigy, Telewell ADSL card, Ati TV tuner + Radeon 8500 as display adapter (for that there are not much choices for slot tho ) OS is Win XP Pro.
..well that's all I can think of asking of so far ..but any additional comments or tips are also welcome.
1. I flashed Mr. Natural bios and it's working great.. no cold boot probs anymore. Big thanks to Mister N. for that ..anyway, about the fsb setting, which one is better in achieving best overclockability and stability: fixed or 1/5, 1/6 divider? I have read somewhere that if fixed setting is used in TH7II pci and agp will not be in right sync and that slows the system somewhat is certain situations.. is this true?
2. I'm going to make vmem mod for my Samsung rdram using 10k ohm adjustable resistor. Now I need to know how to measure the voltage that will go to rimms with a meter BEFORE I boot up the machine.. I would be "moderately" unhappy if my rimms burned up in the smoke because of overvoltage..
3. currently I have my one and only Maxtor 60GB harddisk connected to raid port, but since I don't use any raid setting I suppose there is no speed advantage in using HTP370 controller over the standard udma100 controller on TH7II? If I turn the raid controller off in bios and connect the hard disk to standard ide port, will it increase stability at high fsb:s (over 170)? (currently I have 2 cd-rom drives in the standard ide ports)
4. does it (even theoretically) increase stability at high fsb if I disable all the ports that I don't need such as usb and firewire?
5. is there any difference in stability (from irq sharing point of view or otherwise) in which pci slots I put my extension cards? I have 3 cards: SB Audigy, Telewell ADSL card, Ati TV tuner + Radeon 8500 as display adapter (for that there are not much choices for slot tho ) OS is Win XP Pro.
..well that's all I can think of asking of so far ..but any additional comments or tips are also welcome.