Thank you

I’m sending this email as a thank you for all the information your site has given me.

With all the information from reviews, articles, etc. I was able to build a PC from scratch and overclock it. With the help of another great site (www.tweak3d.net); I was able to tweak it to blinding speeds.

My journey is two stories, actually. First, I went to a computer show here in NYC and picked up an Asus P3v4x mobo and a PIII 600EB Flip Chip, and Micron PC133 RAM. On the net, I picked up the Addtronics 6896a Case, an Alpha PEP-66 cpu cooler and a Golden Orb (mang that thang is purty).

When I had all that I needed (I also picked up a Hercules 3d Prophet Geforce2 32mb) I threw it all together and tried to overclock the processor but I could not get it stable past 647mhz.

I was so upset, but then I started remembering things I’ve read on your site about multipliers and FSB. I realized that this chip only had a 4.5 multiplier and I would have to raise the FSB very high to get the speeds I desired (800+).

So off I went the next Saturday to another show and picked up a PIII 700 100fsb Flip Chip. When I got this baby home, I threw it in the box and set the FSB at 133 right off the bat with my AGP divider at 1/2 for 66mhz, and voltage at 1.75). I booted into Windows and stayed at 937mhz for 2 or 3 weeks.

I then got some more courage and tried for 1ghz+ but, alas, the best I could do with the current set up is 980mhz (get into Windows, but crash on 3d games).

I settled for 966. I can’t believe I used to buy complete systems. LOL, that’s for suckers. I built this system with a Geforce2 costing almost $400 for about the cost of a 1ghz PIII cpu.

I love the P3V4X with the updated drivers and the memory interweaving fix this board kicks major buttocks. I use sCary’s bigass1 demo as my main benchmark because it’s what I’ve used since my first Packard Bell Pentium 100 with 8 Mb ram and 1 Mb VRAM (LOL those were the days).

I now get 250+ fps in that timedemo and when i’m playing q3 with my best performance stting i often see 300+ fps (COM_MAXFS 0).

My system is:

PIII 700 @ 966mhx
128mdb Micron Ram
Hercules 32mb GeForce2 cooled with Golden Orb attached (another story) OC to 210 core and 380 memory
18gb IBM 7200 rpm hd
10gb western Digital 7200 rpm hd
19inch Sony Trinitron Monitor
Addtronics 6896a Case
52x Creative Labs Cd rom
HP 24x 8x 4x CD writer
SB Live Value

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