Who's still running Socket A?

[mxthunder]

Ahh i see you are running a mobile barton. Those were some SICK chips.
I kinda wanna run my Barton rig as my main for a week or so now, and only list it in my sig, because I have socket A pride!

 

[aries2110]

Currently using a mobile 2200+ in my laptop. VIA KM400 chipset with 1GB of RAM and S3 Unichrome IGP. Averatec slim profile notebook.

Runs Ubuntu like a champ

 

[KaiPLN]

I installed a fresh win 7 copy on my brothers 2700+ Barton and to my suprise it wasn't
really that bad after I added another 512mb of ram to it. Too bad he bought a new laptop afterwards..meh. Might convince him to give that system to me

My old athlon 2400+ is still somewhere in the basement but just the cpu.

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

Looks like I may not even have maxed out my Barton 3000+ AQZFA, Asus A7N8X-X and Antec True 430 1.0.

So far, I can't kill my Barton 3000+ AQZFA and Asus A7N8X-X

With my Barton 3000+ AQZFA, I haven't even hit 1.85V yet!

Also, it seems that my Antec True 430 1.0, which was purchased in October, 2003, won't die.

 

[Bad Maniac]

Got an XP 2500+ with 1.5GB DDR400 and a Radeon 2600XT 512MB AGP, on a VIA KT600 mobo running as my media PC hooked up to the TV. No reason to upgrade, it does everything I want it to flawlessly.

 

[$SOLID$Necro]

Motherboard on my Quad rig has been realy flakey and will be replaced soon.

In the meantime I am using my Barton Mobile 2500+ Shuttle AN35N Ultra and 1GB of BH-5. (Will OC to 2.7GHZ with 2.1v and a SP-97/Tornadoe fan at full blast for benching) and with my OC'd ATI X-800 Pro at 550x550 it was pulling great 3DMARK 01~05 scores back in the day.

Currently I have the fan speed turned way down for quiet operation and the voltage at 1.525v and 2.2ghz for surfing the net and playing older games..

The daily driver settings used to be 2.5ghz with 1.85v and 500x500 on the X-800, but I just can't tolerate even the medium fan speeds anymore as I have gotten older!

This motherboard used to be nuts on the FSB with my old 2x256 Geli PC4000..it ran everyday at 450FSB and overclocked to 480FSB!
Still have that Geil ram...should dig it out for giggles, the Bh-5 in it now doesnt like much more then 210-220, needs more then max of this Shuttles 2.7v to "Get it" (Ran at 270FSB 2-2-2 and 3.3v(?)on my old DFI LP 939 set up)

EDIT: In fact..I just installed 3DMARK 01 to give her a run at my current setings and see what it gets! any buddy up for an old school benchmark challenge?

 

[mxthunder]

lets do it!!

 

[$SOLID$Necro]

lets do it!!

Allrighty then!

1st pic is stock 1833MHZ Mobile 2500+ (11x166MHZ) ATI X-800 Pro @stock 475MHZx450MHZ
2x512MB BH-5 2-2-2-7


2nd pic ATI Overdrive is on (ATI Control panel shows as 506MHZ but GPUZ shows only 493MHZ!)

 

[johan851]

15K - that's pretty respectable. But you have an X800 in there - I'd expect you to break 20. You're probably CPU/memory bound, and you have BH5? Crank it up! 2-2-2-6 and get it up to 200FSB.

 

[$SOLID$Necro]

15K - that's pretty respectable. But you have an X800 in there - I'd expect you to break 20. You're probably CPU/memory bound, and you have BH5? Crank it up! 2-2-2-6 and get it up to 200FSB.

Oh yeah..I am certainly CPU bound at the stock 1833MHZ and 166FSB! (Just doing a baseline test..it's been forevor since I ran this thing hard and forgot what the "Stock" scores would be)

Grabbed ATI tray Tools and put the X-800 at 526MHZx526MHZ and only picked up another 114points

Just getting warmed up though...this CPU will run 2.7GHZ if I use "Chilled air" and will run around 2.6GHZ with normal air temps.

 

[johan851]

Grabbed ATI tray Tools and put the X-800 at 526MHZx526MHZ and only picked up another 114points

Exactly - 3DMark2001 is pretty CPU heavy, and you're CPU bound. I miss my socket A platform now...BH-5, an AXP 1700+, and an Abit NF7-S.

 

[Kowalski3500]

This is just what I'm running at now, 2300 and some random stable-ish video settings. I'll bet I could hit 20k with some tweakin, might do that just to see if I can

 

[$SOLID$Necro]

This is just what I'm running at now, 2300 and some random stable-ish video settings. I'll bet I could hit 20k with some tweakin, might do that just to see if I can

Go for it! Glad to someone else jump in the fray... anyone else?

Exactly - 3DMark2001 is pretty CPU heavy, and you're CPU bound. I miss my socket A platform now...BH-5, an AXP 1700+, and an Abit NF7-S.

I have spent the last 2 days working on getting my CPU speed up...I have tested EVERYTHING: Voltages (CPU and MEM, there no NB on this Shuttle AN35N) different memory settings, put new AS paste on the Thermalright SP-97,Turned up the old Tornado from 3000RPM to 600RPM, tried different multipliers and ram speeds...and it bombs out in Nature after about 15-20 seconds..even if I run Nature all by itself

The only time it's stable and gives me a score is if the CPU speed is under 1900MHZ.

So...Since this board will only give me 2.7v for the BH-5 (Won't run past 420 FSB at 2.5-3-3-8) I busted out my old Geil PC 4000, and was able to make it run at 470FSB at 2.5-4-4-8
1884MHZ is the limit...anything more and it crashes from too much CPU speed, pretty sure it's not the ram speed, it runs up to 480FSB with Super Pi. 200x9 runs fine, but will crash at 200x9.5 with CPU voltage anywhere from 1.6~1.85v, didn't seem to matter!

So sadly it appears my "Beloved" Mobile 2500+ has finally suffered to the ravages of time and too much voltage (That or my Shuttle Mobo has!) Would LOVE to get another DFI LP Rev B. but they are impossible to find these days, the Geil I have woud run 520FSB on it.

Anyways..I was looking in my box of spare Athlon CPU's and I have a PAIR of 1700+'s (One is DLT3C, the other DUT3C) that I have never tested that came out of other peoples junk PC's over the years..time to see what they can do!

This is the best score I could squeek out of it for now till I swap the CPU and get it over 2GHZ

 

[johan851]

Try the DUT3C - I think that was a good stepping. Maybe try keeping the BH-6 in. The platform should respond better to tight timings than high bandwidth. If the BH-6 won't do 420 at 2.5-3-3 with 2.7v, try 420 @ 2-2-2-6 or 2-2-2-11. Sometimes it gets unstable at loose timings.

 

[$SOLID$Necro]

Johan,

My old buddy from back in the day used to say that the easy way to remember the good 1700+ steppings was to remember "L" meant "Low voltage" (1.6v?) and the "U" stepping remember as standing for "Up" (Higher default voltage..1.65v? when set to Auto in the bios) I never actually owned one back then, will try your advice first.

I will test them both and see what they default to and if one OC's better...I still haven't ruled out the Motherboard as being the limiting factor, this should tell me for sure!

And yeah, if I can get one to run 2.4GHZ or better, then I will slide the BH-5 back in there, I was curious if the Geil would respond better with the higher FSB with slightly looser timings then BH-5 tight timings and 200FSB.

I suppose I could swap it back in before the cpu change and try 9x 200-210FSB 2-3-3-8 (Or 11 like you said, seems to run Super Pi 1MB about the same with either one, but 11 is more stable)

 

[johan851]

Just keep the CAS at 2. It'll be more stable that way. And it might very well be happier at 2-2-2-11 than at 2-3-3-11.

I'm reliving my socket A overclocking days vicariously through you.

 

[Kowalski3500]

Changing up to 2500mhz and 390/1400 only made my score go down to 17612. I'm gonna add some FSB (all this'll take without a bios mod is 210) and voltz and see what I get!

2520@210fsb with 390/1400 was no higher and the same processor with the original 369/1234 also didn't yield anything higher than my original. No 20k for me.

 

[repo man11]

As I've upgraded friends and family, I've used the cast offs to upgrade some of the computers at work. Since I donated the hardware for free, I put FAH on them. But Socket A FAH results in pretty modest PPD by modern standards. There are two Abit KT7Es, one with an XP 1600, and another with an Applebred Duron. A Shuttle AK32 with an XP2200, and some ECS KT333 board with the same. They are just used for parts lookup on the web.

I gave my best Socket A system to some friends last Thanksgiving. An Epox 8RDA3+, with a Maxtor SATA drive, 1.5 gigs of PC3200, and a new Nvidia 6200 AGP card for Aero with Windows 7. It ran ok, and was fast compared to what they were used to. But I really wish I could have found a deal on something newer. I bought Windows 7 for them last summer, and it was the Home Premium upgrade that has both 32 and 64 bit disks. I'm hoping that by the time I visit again, I will have found a deal on a used C2D or AM2 board and some DDR2, so I can upgrade them to the 64 bit version.

The 3200+ single core 939 I've set my mom up with plays this YouTube video better than the K7N2/ mobile Barton @1.8 that I set my aunt up with. And my aunt's computer has an X800 AGP card, while my mom's only has a PCI MX400 video card. Trying to watch this video in HD on my aunt's computer,

, (after giving it time to fully load) was worse than on my mother's. I was very surprised, since the X800 is so much better.

 

[mxthunder]

Nice scores guys! I will rip a 2001 run when I get home. I totally forget what I was scoring.

 

[$SOLID$Necro]

Just keep the CAS at 2. It'll be more stable that way. And it might very well be happier at 2-2-2-11 than at 2-3-3-11.

I'm reliving my socket A overclocking days vicariously through you.

But the BH-5 back in and it refuses to run 2-2-2 at 400FSB without instantly crashing when windows loads, 2-3-3 I can get windows to load, but it won't run any programs. 2.5-3-3-11 is the only thing that is stable. Part of it might have to do with they are 512MB sticks, and one is Geil and the other Corsair (Both PC3500) I realy miss my 2x256 Kingston PC3000 I got from new egg back in the day, that stuff was amazing on my 939 DFI LP, 540FSB as 2-2-2-7! (3.4-3.5v I think) Also had it on my socket 754 DFI LP and it ran 500FSB at 2-2-2 with 3.2v (Boards max)

Somewhere in one of my boxes is one of those OCZ voltage boosters a bud gave me years ago, but I was using that DFI LP 939 at the time and had no use for it (They had like up to 3.7v or more as an option) Maybe if I can find it and it still works then I can get this BH-5 to run ok on the board.

Well..I swapped CPU's and no joy!

It apears it might be the motherboard, just can't get past the 1.9ghz mark and have it be stable...spent another half a day trying different settings on the new cpu and nothing worked, even removed the board and checked it for problems (Blown caps, burnt traces, making sure the SP-97 was seated properly )

So it apears the motherboard is getting weak...or that my 500 watt Antec True Power might be going bad (It has the adjustable voltage rails...was the first one on the block to have one, paid like 200$ for it back in the day)

I have a spare OCZ 520 (Also with adjustable rails) I might pop in there and try tonight.

I think it might be time to try and find another DFI LP Rev. B though..I realy miss that board...I had a NF-7 Rev 2 before that, but never could get above 440FSB with it, though they are easier to find these days.

I still have the orignal LP box with all the accesories in it, found it hidden away in the basement the other day, never used theat "Front X" control panel, was still in there along with the carrying straps and other items.

Any body have a DFI LP Rev B. they might want to part with?