Biostar 200n

[imsavant]

I LOVE this thing

I actually decided to build myself a new rig using one of these. I must say I LOVE it. I bought a Biostar 200n SFF, Mobile 2400xp, 1g Mushkin 3500 l2 and added leftovers from other computers and parts from my main rig(damn epox board died . Worked on it last night and have it very stable @ 11.5*200=2300mhz @1.7v 2-2-2-11 at the moment. Before I added everything else (2*raptor 36g in raid 0, 80g wd se, gf 3 ti200, winfast tvcard, and a dvr-106) I had it at 2500mhz, but I can not keep it up w/everything in there(200w ps). My temp without everything in there are load at 40*c with 50*c. I will be doing some cutting to fit some fans. I must say this thing is ungodly fast. I love it. Plus I can take it with me, unlike the beast weighing in at just over 90lb (4*wd 160 in raid5). Now I am going to try and get an old 350w ps in there. With that I think I will be able to get 2400 stable.

Justin

 

[ThePCTech]

Hey, I'm in devner also. I just wanted to ask you how you got the idea to try a mobile cpu in the 200n? Did you run into any problems doing that? Which BIOS are you using? I have a 2500+ in mine now, it runs @ 2200 11*200 no problem, I did have to bump the voltage to 1.75. What was the default voltage on the mobile CPU? I have a AIW in mine, the PSU seemed to not like it. I had my Vidcard and cd burner on the same power cable, I had to hook them up on different cables from the PSU that fixed the problem.

Brian

 

[seadog]

Well, I have a brother in Denver - great area. Recently put together a 200n w/ XP2100 @ 10x200 (1.625 Vcore) with onboard video and 2x256 Buffalo pc3200. Chip will do close to 2.4, but I'm trying to keep it cool till I decide on where to mod the case for additional fans. Great little box. My son plays C&C Generals, Morrowind and Neverwinter Nights with only occasional slowdowns. Added a fan to the northbridge and HS to the southbridge. Even managed to O/C the IGP a bit to 225 with the CoolBits reg hack.

There is supposed to be a 250 watt PSU coming for the 200n - check here: http://forums.sudhian.com/messageview.cfm?catid=96&threadid=48514 - but it doesn't look like it will be available aftermarket.