Usually I'm an Intel fan, but recently I decided to get one of the legendary 1700+ JIUHB DLT3C processors that everyone has been raving about a while ago to play around with. I went on eBay and was lucky to get an 0310UPMW, believed to be the best of the best.
I also snagged an NF7, making sure it was a rev 2. Luckily, as we will later see, he did pull through with the claim.
The NF7 arrived with a stock AMD heatsink on the northbridge, probsbly to avoid the terrible whine that tiny fans inevitably produce.
I also stuck in a ti4200 since I heard they're extremely good and was curious how they shaped up.
So I stuck everything together, put it in my w/c rig, and tried to overclock the hell out of it. The results, however, were terribly dissapointing to say the least. I only got it to 2730 MHz! Not only that, but the FSB was pathetically slow: only 227.
This is inexcusable... how is it possible that such a legendary, formidable processor do so terrible? I can o/c my 2.4c to 3800 mhz, with an FSB of 317, without even trying. And yet this does over one gigahertz less. Terrible. I couldn't raise the FSB much higher; it wouldn't even POST after 231. I didn't expect much from a chipset made by nvidia, but this was disappointing nonetheless.
Thus, I resigned to experimenting around with the proc, seeing whether I can make it go a bit faster. I had already resigned to using my Intel as my main rig, so I had wanted something to play with that I wouldn't mind dying were I to make a mistake.
I thus decided to do a burn-in, to see whether perhaps all that this proc needed to awaken was stretch it muscles a bit.
To accomplish this, I put together a makeshift flamethrower:
I also snagged an NF7, making sure it was a rev 2. Luckily, as we will later see, he did pull through with the claim.
The NF7 arrived with a stock AMD heatsink on the northbridge, probsbly to avoid the terrible whine that tiny fans inevitably produce.
I also stuck in a ti4200 since I heard they're extremely good and was curious how they shaped up.
So I stuck everything together, put it in my w/c rig, and tried to overclock the hell out of it. The results, however, were terribly dissapointing to say the least. I only got it to 2730 MHz! Not only that, but the FSB was pathetically slow: only 227.
This is inexcusable... how is it possible that such a legendary, formidable processor do so terrible? I can o/c my 2.4c to 3800 mhz, with an FSB of 317, without even trying. And yet this does over one gigahertz less. Terrible. I couldn't raise the FSB much higher; it wouldn't even POST after 231. I didn't expect much from a chipset made by nvidia, but this was disappointing nonetheless.
Thus, I resigned to experimenting around with the proc, seeing whether I can make it go a bit faster. I had already resigned to using my Intel as my main rig, so I had wanted something to play with that I wouldn't mind dying were I to make a mistake.
I thus decided to do a burn-in, to see whether perhaps all that this proc needed to awaken was stretch it muscles a bit.
To accomplish this, I put together a makeshift flamethrower:
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