Just a couple of questions.

[Silver]

Has anyone tried modding the voltage regulator on the k7d?
Second, has anyone tried using cpufsb on the board?
Anyone played with wcpredit on it?

Just curious as to wether or not anyone has played around with mods on an smp board. Take Care All.

 

[cmcquistion]

CPUFSB doesn't work, apparently. Some have tried it. MSI has a utility for changing the FSB from Windows. Can't remember what it's called, but you have to use version 4 for this board. It doesn't work well, though, I have heard. Causes system instability.

I played with WPCREDIT on the board some. Couldn't do anything particularly useful. I tried the CPU idle trick that works on other AMD chipsets, but it didn't work on the 760 MPX. There are some memory tweaks you can do with WPCREDIT, but it doesn't do anything that the BIOS doesn't allow you to change, anyway. Other boards, like Tyan's can be helped some, since they don't have any BIOS tweaks of their own.

 

[Silver]

I knew that there would be at least one. On the 8k3a I managed through playing around to get another 500 points or so on mem as tested with Sandra. This allowed some rather high scores in 3dmark2001 for the board. Seemed it might be of particular interest givin the limited bandwidth on the dual. How about the vcore? Heard anything on upping it? 10% or 1.95 ought to do the trick. How high can you go with the multipliers? I hear 12.5 however by running auto I understand that some are getting the cpu default and then upping the fsb?

 

[cmcquistion]

I've heard that there is a Vmem mod, but I don't know where to find it. I haven't heard of a Vcore mod, but I'm sure someone knows how to do it.

You can change the Multi up to 12.5. You can hard-code for higher multipliers than that, but you lose the ability to change them, above 12.5. For example, you can blow bridges to hard code for 15X, but you won't be able to run any multi other than 15X (set BIOS to Auto.)

FSB goes up to 150.

 

[Silver]

Sounds good to me, a little on the vcore (should be safe as long as within 10%) and maybe some wcpredit and the board would work for me. Of course the other problem or better yet decision is what is coming and how long on opteron duals. I see MSI has one out though I could not find much in the way of reviews. What I did catch left me wondering if the new dual opteron board did not have an agp slot.

 

[cmcquistion]

I wouldn't hold my breath for Opteron. It will be a while before they are available for a decent price (meaning anything below $500 for the board and $500 for each CPU.)

The fact that we haven't heard anything from AMD about a new chipset for Athlon MP, suggests that we are stuck with the chipset we've got. I don't think any other dual AMD chipsets will be made, except for Hammer's and their release has been postponed countless times, now. There's no telling when they will really come to market and then how long it will take before they are competitively priced.

 

[Silver]

Ok, have done some reading now and it seems that the board of choice for oc'ers was the Iwill mpx2. Any comments and if good where can one attain one. Need to take a good look at the v regulator to see if anything can be done. Have not found anything on it as of yet.

 

[cmcquistion]

The board of choice for overclockers (according to me and most duallie overclockers around here) is the MSI K7D Master.