View Full Version : old school overclocking!
Jrocket
12-31-2003, 02:42 PM
After frying my duron, I decided to line up my next victim. I had an old 1.2ghz thunderbird that I popped into the rig in my sig. Anyways I had some questions before I started. My NF7-S recognizes the voltage as 1.75v, that sounded a bit high. So could someone please tell me if that is right (I doubt it) or what it is? Also I have a crappy aero7+ on it, but at 1.75v at stock speeds it is 42c idle I didnt want to push it cause that seemed high, I think I dont have enough artic silver on it.
Thanks
I have a 1.2GHz T-Bird also, 1.75v is the correct default. 42C is prolly right too, as i've noticed mine runs notably hotter than my barton.
Jrocket
12-31-2003, 03:11 PM
Wow! 42c on idle though?
That is crazy, how high should I let the temps go then? Also how high did you oc it?
I got it to a stable 15xx w/1.8v dipping to 1.72. I really wanted to push it but i'm currently using it in my frontend box and don't have a replacement for it if the unthinkable should happen.
It's lived in an A7V/KT133 it's whole life @1365 but i wanted to see what kind of FSB it could do in my NF7-S. It's capable of all the FSB my board can through at it!
sandman
12-31-2003, 03:40 PM
Those T-birds could be stable at over 70C
give it hell
KennyC
12-31-2003, 03:59 PM
I still have a 600e running 852 on a BE6-II with an alpha cooler on it. Its been at that speed since day one. Actually its never seen 600MHz..
=STE=BloodAngel
12-31-2003, 05:38 PM
Hmm, interesting, I've got an Thunderbird 1.4Ghz lying around somewhere. How high do you guys think it could get?
pduan87
12-31-2003, 06:00 PM
Originally posted by =STE=BloodAngel
Hmm, interesting, I've got an Thunderbird 1.4Ghz lying around somewhere. How high do you guys think it could get?
Usually with air, I think it was somewhere between 1.6-1.7? Prolly higher with water, etc.
Jrocket
12-31-2003, 06:51 PM
This is gonna be fun! Im gonna reapply some thermal adhesive, sadly im out of as3 so I have to slap on some crappy thermal grease. After that Ill start ocing but then Im off to a new years party. After Ill probably be up for a while messin with this rig.
BTW I plan to give it hell sandman!
Jrocket
12-31-2003, 08:02 PM
Well I reapply the thermal compound with some crappy zalman stuff that came with my gpu hs. Then I took the mice runner fan off my aero 7+ and put a tornado on it. Muahaha now Im cookin!
Anyways when I booted up closed the useless process and opened up motherboard monitor it said 34 then rose to 37 after I left for 5 minutes. Anyways Im pretty happy having it go from 42 to 37 with a simple 5 minute fan switch! This is the first time Ive booted the tornado, sadly it is on the mobo so I have no control of it. It sounds like someone is dust busting my computer!! ahhh! I can deal with it though.
Time to give it hell!
Jrocket
12-31-2003, 08:23 PM
Ok this is weird! I had it at 9x133, cause I figured it was a t-bird. Then I tried ocing it and I couldnt get higher then 1.3ghz, so I switched it to 12x100 and it booted fine. Here is my question, if it is a t-bird then I wouldnt have been able to boot with a 12 multi right?
P.S. I have not modded it
saaya
12-31-2003, 10:33 PM
built a rig for a friend with some spare parts, got a sis 768xe chipset or whatever its called some twinmos 3200 and an old t-bird 1.33ghz.
the default voltage on this one is 1.80v i think! with default vcore i got it to 1.55ghz 100% primestable, not too bad :)
with a super silent hsf the temps are around 50°C under load i think, nothing special for those t-brids :)
i know a guy who is running his tbrid 1ghz@1.9ghz with watercooling for years now, i wonder what it could do in a prommie :D
coZmic
01-01-2004, 12:00 AM
also keep in mind that these (or those?) tbirds were manufactered in 0.18um, means with good cooling a vcore of 2.1 volts is no problem.
with phase change i would say 2.3-4 volts lets them make feeling like in younger years. :D
Dizzario
01-01-2004, 12:03 AM
Originally posted by Jrocket
Ok this is weird! I had it at 9x133, cause I figured it was a t-bird. Then I tried ocing it and I couldnt get higher then 1.3ghz, so I switched it to 12x100 and it booted fine. Here is my question, if it is a t-bird then I wouldnt have been able to boot with a 12 multi right?
P.S. I have not modded it
No its a t-bird, i have had 2 1.2 100fsb t-birds, and had 1 1.4 133fsb t-bird which i ran at 1.3ghz with 100mhz fsb (A7V-E no 133 support). so just cause you can set the mutl to 12 dosent mean its not a t-bird. BTW with my 1.2s they were from 50-60c idle. they run HOT. have had it to about 80C stable.
Jrocket
01-01-2004, 12:46 AM
Yeah but I brought mine down to 37c idle stock, so thats not too bad. However Im having a big problem. I cant get over 1.3ghz with my 1.2, and for some reason I cant go over 1.85v. I have an NF7-S, which I have pushed up to 1.9 with my duron. So why cant I go over 1.85v? Also I can barely get 1.3 on 1.85v and I can only get an extra 50mhz on stock vcore. Have most people had this kind of performance or do I just have a crap cpu?
Whats the stepping? I had a 1ghz AJFA tbird which wouldnt do 1150 stable with 1.85v.
Jrocket
01-01-2004, 02:15 AM
I dont know I didnt check, Ill try to check in the morning though.
di_entropy
01-01-2004, 02:40 AM
the 1ghz AXIA's were the best :)
i still have one in my old computer that does 1.5ghz.. not a bad OC :)
[XC]thewildblue
01-01-2004, 03:42 AM
I have an old 1.4 than did 1780 on air with 2.2 vcore. That was in my old epox 333.
I shall see if I can find any benchies....Radeon VE score with Tbird. (http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=4471180 )
An old 1.2 that I have also does 1.4 max.