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wanna sell that Y chip? all the ones in canada are the X stepping, not really worth it to me.. gonna wait until i see a really good stepping come up

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Sorry but I have big plans for it. I am swapping in an NF7 for the Soltek and hoping to see 2.7GHz But being as I doubt I'll dare push the voltage higher than 1.95v, not sure if it will be stable.

Even if you only get 2.4GHz, still not bad, and still a super cool running chip for a non-gaming rig if you drop it back down in speed and voltage. That's my plan for the one that topped out at 2.4GHz.

ABIT IS7, P4 2.6C, 512MB Corsair TwinX PC3200LL, Radeon 9800 Pro, Santa Cruz, TruePower 430watt
 
I'm sorely tempted to buy one of these things... Sadly I just can't justify it at the mo, given how little 'real' improvement I'd get from it...

I can't really play with my system anymore. Damn chip just won't hit 2.3Ghz no matter what I do :frown: ... but as Real cheap overclockers go I guess I shouldn't complain! :smile:

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Epox 8RDA+ rev1.1 w/ Custom NB HS
XP1700+ @205x11 (~2.26Ghz), 1.575Vcore
2x256Mb Corsair PC3200LL 2-2-2-4
Sapphire 9800Pro 410/710
 
I got up to almost 2.8ghz at 1.9v (220x12.5). Will try to do higher soon as get my water cooling kit setup. This mobile chip does burn just as hot as my AQXEA desktop chip but the fact that Im in Florida and my office gets very hot after a while does not help. Even at 1.7v the chip will do 50c and 55c at 1.9v with the slk947u and 92mm fan. These chips suppose to burn cooler werent they? Can only imangine this chip on one of those crappy laptop hsf.
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yeah, but remember your mobile chip in a laptop would be topping out at 1.8 Ghz, not 2.8...i assume if you tried to run it at 1.45v and standard speed, it would be alot cooler...but why on earth would you want to do that????

AMD XP-M 2600+ @ 2.56Ghz (12x213 @1.72v)
Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2
Geil 2x256MB PC3200 (2-3-3-11)
Gigabyte Radeon 9200 128MB VIVO
WD 36GB 10,000RPM 8MB SATA
Maxtor 40GB 7,200RPM 8MB ATA133
 
Me accept stock,,,, aint gonna happen. Probably when you OC the chip that the heat expectancies would be identical to the desktop chips. Just the only differance is it can do more with less juice up to a certain degree much like desktop chips where you will need extreme cooling solutions.. Either ways the less juice I put on this chip makes it easier on my PSU.

Mobile Barton 2500+ @ 2420mhz 11x220 1.7v
Asus A7N8X Dlx 440 FSB
1gb Geil GD pc3500 Dual Channel (2-3-3-6)
Segata 80gb SATA 8.5ms seek
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro(420/720)
 
Hey addiarmadar, have you run the UT2004 demo bench on that setup? How about 3dmark2001se? I'd like to see your scores. I am hoping to try a R9800 Pro in my mobile, as paired with a Ti4200 scores are still so low. UT2004 was aweful, 3dmark2001se is a little over 14,500 so far, but I need to push the card some more. Being as you are running a much higher fsb, your scores should do well against mine at(13*200).

If you run UT2004 demo benchie, post your scores in this thread:
<A HREF="http://forumz.tomshardware.com/hardware/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=390452#390452" target="_new">http://forumz.tomshardware.com/hardware/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=390452#390452</A>

For fun, you can compare your setup to Speeduks A64 3200+, which I think is OC to 2.31GHz with a 389/369 970 pro. He's clearly the top scores in that thread.

ABIT IS7, P4 2.6C, 512MB Corsair TwinX PC3200LL, Radeon 9800 Pro, Santa Cruz, TruePower 430watt<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Pauldh on 03/19/04 07:09 PM.</EM></FONT></P>
 
I havent done the UT2004 bench yet but my 3dmark01se score I did last night was 21158.

Mobile Barton 2500+ @ 2420mhz 11x220 1.7v
Asus A7N8X Dlx 440 FSB
1gb Geil GD pc3500 Dual Channel (2-3-3-6)
Segata 80gb SATA 8.5ms seek
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro(420/720)
 
People are more than welcome to waste thier Money on a chip like that and with a new encoding that is currently useless. I prefer to go the cheat and cheap way.

Mobile Barton 2500+ @ 2420mhz 11x220 1.7v
Asus A7N8X Dlx 440 FSB
1gb Geil GD pc3500 Dual Channel (2-3-3-6)
Segata 80gb SATA 8.5ms seek
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro(420/720)
 
Well, I'm happy with my mobile 2500+ even if it only gets me to 2.4 gigs, but my 9600pro will never give me the fps you can get. I'm not really too jealous though. I'm not great at games, but I like a little eye candy timt to time. I suppose I should get the 9800pro but new cards are so close. Not that I could get past 20,K, but close.
 
You wont be missin much with those new card. Gonna be much like what is out right now except be 16x and not much is using the 8x still. ATI or Nvidia wont be taking much advantage of that much bandwidth for another year when we will see AGP card with over 512mb of high speed ram. A 9600 does well in the hear and now but the 9800 will have a future for the next year or so. If you are not much in gamming then wat you have is just as good. Im still my ti4600 on another right and playing COD, UT2004, and Far Cry with sweet graphics.

Mobile Barton 2500+ @ 2420mhz 11x220 1.7v
Asus A7N8X Dlx 440 FSB
1gb Geil GD pc3500 Dual Channel (2-3-3-6)
Segata 80gb SATA 8.5ms seek
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro(420/720)
 
Pci express doesn't thrill me at all. The 16 shader pipes from nvidia does peak my interest, but mostly I'm thinking Ati will come out with something that can go on my NF7-S board and put a smile on my face.
 
That's cool. i was hoping for over 20K once I switched cards. I now am over 15K after OC the 4X Ti4200 some more. I haven't found the limit on that asus card yet. I'll have to try and find that tomorrow.

I also swapped in a Rev 2.0 NF7 for the soltek. Interesting note was the thing was now stable at 2.4GHz at only 1.625v. Yet still needed 1.775v for 2.6GHz for some reason. Also it turns out the Soltek seemed to have fsb issues beyond 200. Even after I swapped in PC4000. In the past I have found Soltek SL75-FRN2-RL's to OC well. This one happened to be a refurb and I can't seem to get it stable above a 200 bus setting.

I have been trying to find the max fsb tonight on the NF7. It will boot into windows at 235*11 and run sisoft sandra. But boots me to the desktop in 3dmark2001. I am a bit chicken to up the voltage even more. Tomorrow I'll mess with it more. I am hoping to get higher than 2.6GHz now with the Abit board.

On another note, after swapping motherboards and sticking the same video card back in, I decided to test it out without fdisking the drive and reinstalling Windows. I can't believe just how smooth that went. I'll still probably reinstall it, but I have 10 more days before activation to play around on this thing.



ABIT IS7, P4 2.6C, 512MB Corsair TwinX PC3200LL, Radeon 9800 Pro, Santa Cruz, TruePower 430watt
 
I noticed that. the Soltek was a bit over what I set it at and the Abit a bit lower. Hence, 1.65v setting shows up in sandra as 1.625v on the Abit.

I miss the 3rd temp reading that the Soltek had. I nolonger have the actual chip temperature, just the external under socket probe. Makes me question how high I can push the voltage being as I am using only a Jet 7 cooler... nothing real high performance.

ABIT IS7, P4 2.6C, 512MB Corsair TwinX PC3200LL, Radeon 9800 Pro, Santa Cruz, TruePower 430watt
 
well, I'm about to confess 2.6GHz is my max (still) even with the Abit. Higher fsb's are possible on the NF7.(12+217) and (13*200) are my best fully stable overclocks. I have passed some benchmarks up to 2.65GHz, but I just can't get it stable that high. Since I was booting up at 2.7GHz I pushed it to 1.95v, 2.0v, and 2.03v. But couldn't do any benchies at all. That voltage is just too sick for me to keep trying, especially with air cooling.

Still strange, the Soltek needed less voltage to hit 13*200, yet the Abit runs 2.4GHz at a lower voltage. And 217*12 needed more voltage than 200*13, both 2.6GHz.

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The 200*13 was only a little over 100 3dmarks under the 217*12. But I had to relax the memory timing from 7-3-3-3 to 11-4-4-3 to be stable at the higher bus. Being as I can drop the voltage a notch at the 200bus, I think I'll stick to that for my R9800 Pro testing.



So have you tried any more voltage yet? :lol:



ABIT IS7, P4 2.6C, 512MB Corsair TwinX PC3200LL, Radeon 9800 Pro, Santa Cruz, TruePower 430watt
 
Nice 3dmarks!
I've pushed the vcore to 1.9 (1.86 by mbm) and added a little to the chipset and ram. It allowed a max of 2450, but too much more heat for the gain. I'm resigned to 2.4 for games and 2.3 for work n surf. I almost went out and grabbed another chip, but I hate having a spare chip around, and I dont have anyone to give this one to. Good thing probably as my 9600pro is starting to show artifacts at medium oc, so I may have to get a 9800pro. ( or maybe it's just the excuse I need)
 
That is very odd but to be expected when you oc that high. The voltage exponent jumps with the variable. I never used a Soltek mobo so I cannot help you there but if it has issues going over 200 clock just try in single channel mode and make sure that the northbridge and maybe the southbridge isnt burning. So far ASUS with their a7n8x mobo have been putting the best NB hsf on and it is passive too.

Mobile Barton 2500+ @ 2420mhz 11x220 1.7v
Asus A7N8X Dlx 440 FSB
1gb Geil GD pc3500 Dual Channel (2-3-3-6)
Segata 80gb SATA 8.5ms seek
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro(420/720)
 
Funny you should say that. I used an infrared t-stat on my A7N8X board. I found that the n bridge was at 60c and the vregs were as warm, when mbm5 showed my diode temp at 58c. That was one of the reasons I bought an NF7 board (with active nb cooling). Even under no load, the higher I drove the fsb, the higher my temps went, always led by the nb.
 
Yes I suspect the refurb Solteks northbridge. I had even pulled the NB heatsink/fan and tried Artic SIlver 5. Wasn't any better. I'll stick to the NF7, and use the soltek and the 2.4GHz max Mobile chip to run a quiet 2.0GHz system. Otherwise I think it needs Watercooling which is too $$ for me to think about now.



ABIT IS7, P4 2.6C, 512MB Corsair TwinX PC3200LL, Radeon 9800 Pro, Santa Cruz, TruePower 430watt
 
That seems to be a wierd fact with the NF7. It has an active NB HSF but its very small. Probably Abit did that on purpose so people can properly fit thier big-a$$ cpu HSF on thier rig with the Vcore options the mobo gives you. My nf7-s NB burns hotter then my a7n8x NB. Just maybe how the mobo is designed but as long as it can take the wattage heat then I dont care.

Mobile Barton 2500+ @ 2420mhz 11x220 1.7v
Asus A7N8X Dlx 440 FSB
1gb Geil GD pc3500 Dual Channel (2-3-3-6)
Segata 80gb SATA 8.5ms seek
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro(420/720)
 
Dont forget to mention that watercooling is not for slackers too. I just drop speeds down on my rigs this time of the year and smack em back up during the winter. The drops I do dont change my performance at all, just get slightly lower benchmark scores.

Mobile Barton 2500+ @ 2420mhz 11x220 1.7v
Asus A7N8X Dlx 440 FSB
1gb Geil GD pc3500 Dual Channel (2-3-3-6)
Segata 80gb SATA 8.5ms seek
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro(420/720)
 
I jut get in there...I ordered a mobile 2500+ to use with my Soltek 75frn2-rl. I have the desktop 2500+ running @200x10.5 (3000+). Want to know what was your temp @200X13 and your voltage for stable operation? Because I dont know if with my termaltake silentboost cooler I'll be able to run is cool enough @ 2600Mhz.



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200*13= 2.6GHz on the Soltek, at first 1.775v setting in the bios which was actually closer to 1.8v. The soltek gives a little more voltage than the bios setting, whereas the Abit gave a little less. CPU temps were not bad. The socket was 41 max, and the absII (core) hit 53 I believe while looping Sisoft Sandra Burnin wizzard. My Abit at 1.9v and the same speed is giving me 50 under the socket during max load. I'd sure like a core reading like the Soltek gave.

My room temp is 64F, which is cool. So come Summer and 10 degree higher room temps, I think I'll be dropping it to 2.4GHz and 1.65v

I should also state that I am running an Antec 1040 full tower server case, with 2 front/ 2 rear 80mm Zalman fans. SO my airflow is very good.

ABIT IS7, P4 2.6C, 512MB Corsair TwinX PC3200LL, Radeon 9800 Pro, Santa Cruz, TruePower 430watt
 
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