Whats a good speed for 700 TB OC'd?

[DarkHawk]

I have a Thunderbird 700 Slot A .18 Micron 256k Cache
Week 21

"AMD-AO700MPR24B-A"
"210021623572"

Asus K7M No GFD, just FSB at 117.1 x 7
The HS/F is almost minus its last fan, since both are old and are dying, MBM 5 shows RPM at 2500 of the little 50mm sucker left spinning. I have an 80 mm up front pullling cool air in and a huge 200 MM 120 V AC fan in the side right over the chip pushing prob over 100 CFM no exhaust since the PSU is sitting on top of the case. It was right in the way of the CPU. The HS is a simple Aluminum "Aavid" generic brand.

My questions are..

What would be a good Slot-A(1) HS for under $30 online ( low shipping if possible ) to get it higher?

Whats a good case thats a decent size Mid - Tower with at least a 300W PSU, (considering mines only 250 and generic ) for under $50 online? - same as above about shipping

Is there any tweaks specific for this CPU that can be done with out soldering that would give noticable increase in speed while being stable. I am happy with it as is, except for the case and HS which is at this moment passing on, I see the fan speed warning flashing at me....

Well it seems I am now maintaining tolerable temps while OC'ing a passively cooled TB! Is that a record? or is it just cuz its 22 C in my basement?

Any help is greatly appreciated with this slightly older but not over the hill CPU, though the HS is RIP

Thanks all...


<edit>Just found out that 200 is only 120 mm and its a Sunon, you can check the specs at http://www.sunon.com.tw/product/ac/ac12038.htm where I found out its running around 115 CFM, very nice, no wonder I can do passive, probably should do some ducting </edit>

 

[bobt17]

well i dont think u will get very far without a GFD i used to own a kt133 board (based on kx133) and the fsb would only go up a little b4 it became unstable and wouldent boot the only way to get more out of it was to change the multiplier but since that was a socket a board it was alot eazier so i would say if u want to get the most out of it try to get a GFD so u can change the multiplier

 

[DarkHawk]

any way to do something simialr to L1 bridge connecting to un-lock, or is it just GFD or Solder?

 

[bobt17]

i havent worked with a slot a athlon b4 but i think its only solder or gfd

 

[DarkHawk]

got any ideas other than Ebay for where to get them?

 

[bobt17]

i'm not sure on that one maybe someone else knows of a good place......

 

[[OC]Lucifer]

I used to have one..

I used an Alpha P7125 and a Northwind Rev3 GFD - and hit 950 with it. Could quite get it to hit the magical (at the time) ghz mark. Cheers and hope you have better luck. They are good chips on the whole.

 

[DarkHawk]

Any ideas where I might find that HS and GFD? Preferably not Ebay, but will check it anyways.....



Thanks, I hope to get to 1GHz, would be nice considering that until I got this setup I had an old K6-2 400 ( Wooweee was it slow, and now the Thunderbird seems fast enough, I can even play Max Payne with no problem. Some of that is my video card's help though, love that good old Viper V550, wait I mean Riva TNT...

 

[[OC]Lucifer]

Heres some spots...

Youll find the P7125 here-
http://phamcomputer.safeshopper.com/28/141.htm?638
and the GFD here-
http://www.northwindcomputers.com/
just go to "order" and go to the secure site, and you can order one there.
Good Luck,
Lucifer

 

[The Coolest]

I know next to nothing about slot A procs, but its a T-Bird after all, doesn't it have any L1 bridges on it?

 

[Ottoman]

I'm a Slot A expert, had 2 cpu's and 2 mobos and 2.5 yrs under the belt...

slot A's take heat well...

but the chipset is usually the limiter... 115-117 FSB is the most u can expect...

and the only way to change the multpiplier is a GFD or soldering, either by opening or closing or both the bridges... no other ways sorry...

the most pain free way is a GFD... I"d reccomend it... that's what I used.. makes life SOOO much easier... on board voltage and multplier adjustments...