My Magnificent PC

[Liranan]

I have, after having trashed my 1900 put my P3 800 back together. I have a Jetway 694TAS and 256 MB RAM. I am going to buy 512 MB RAM and was wondering how far my processor can be pushed (I have the hsf for an XP2100 on my processor so cooling is not an issue and the hsf can be replaced anyway)? My board takes a maximum fsb of 166. Also anyone have any idea which Mem I should get, prefereable CL2.0 PC133.
I have a Hyundai stick and a stick made by an unknown manufacturer: MA. Never heard of the fools before though I have to say it's old memory.

The board is quite good and am not in the mood of replacing it so don't suggest anything suggestive that could suggest anything at all because suggestive suggestions are not appreciated as such suggestions will suggestively be discarded and I will have to suggest my own suggestive suggestions(anyone wanna lengthen that sentence?).

One last question: the multiplier of the P3's re unlockable as well cotrrect?

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[tombance]

LOL, Nope the p3 cannot be unlocked, however if your board supports voltage changes to the CPU you could be in with a good overclocking chance. Without voltage changes (my board didnt have an) I could get my p3 750 upto 840 (112x7.5), but that was all. With a voltage increase I probably could have got it to 1ghz.

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[svol]

Do you have a 100Mhz or 133Mhz FSB Pentium3? I OC'ed my P3 700Mhz to 933Mhz by changing the FSB to 133Mhz. I also increased the VCore with 0.1V to 1.8V just to be sure. Temps don't go over 40C with an Alpha PAL6035 with some unknown 4k rpm fan.

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[Crashman]

Most P3 Coppermines would do around 980MHz, but a little higher (around 1050MHz) if you really pushed them. You need to increase core voltage to do that, and bus speed of course. If you have a 133MHz FSB CPU, your memory will be the first thing to crap out.

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[Liranan]

Man my English is brilliant! If I made any more miftakes...

I have a 133 FSB core and have been able to squeeze a good extra 30 Mhz out of my FSB pushing it to 163 which is 163*6=978. I noticed that this was the maximum speed my chipset would run stable at and I was already suspecting my mem to be the fault of the instability. Is there anything I can do to remedy this problem? Can I drop the FSB to 100 and then overclock it or won't the Coppermine core of the P3 accept that? I have M.Tech and Hyundai memory modules (M.Tech=Micron?). Also I have a GF3 200 overclocked to 200/500. I have set this speed in the BIOS... lovely program this BIOS editor. I can not get the board to work with my card at 4x AGP: it just won't run stable.
The chipset is the VIA 694TAS and I know I am losing framerate due to this fault. Is there any way I can remedy this or is this one of those design faults of the chipset?

Happy New Year All...

Hope this will be a great Uear gor ass ull.

PS
How far can the P4's be pushed without water cooling? Can one squeeze another few hundred MHZ out of the processors (400+)?

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[Crashman]

Actually you're very lucky you've gotten that far, that's a very high speed for the other parts of your system.

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[Col_Kiwi]

If you buy a lower clocked Northwood A P4, you can sometimes get up to 1GHz above stock speeds, but you need great memory and a great board.

My 1.8A maxes out at 150 FSB, 2.7GHz, which it can handle <b>at stock voltage</b>. Of course my memory can't handle this without chopping down the divider.

-Col.Kiwi

 

[Liranan]

The Jetway 694 does not support CPU voltage increase but what it does do is that it automatically sets the DRAM speeds according to stability. I can overclock the board to a speed of 145 Mhz (FSB) and a DRAM speed of 145. But raising the FSB to 146 will set the DRAM speed to 113 which is HCLK-33M (100 Mhz Mem speed). This prevents overclocking of the memory by too much and sets the memory speed to a stable speed. I find this a very nice feature, despite the fact that I can't adjust the CPU voltage. Also the board has got a very good memory bandwidth, in SANDRA (I know SANDRA is everything but accurate when it comes to measuring bandwidth) I achieve 90% of the memory bandwidth; which is nearly 1 Gig/s.

You have got to be kidding!! 900 Mhz with just aircooling? That is unbelievable! I would have found 500-600 Mhz more than enough. What is the processor performance like with the 2.4 and above processors? Is it still possible to overclock them to such high speeds?

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