AX7-333 + 1GHz T-Bird

[LBJGH]

I currently have a 1GHz AYHJA running at 1365mhz on an Asus A7V motherboard.

I have be considering upgrading to the Abit AX7-333 and DDR using my existing chip. I borrowed an Iwill KK266 motherboard and was able to run this chip at 1518mhz with my old GlobalWin FOP38 w/cheap replacement fan 100% stable.

I watched a video review over at www.3dgameman.com in which he was able to run at 210mhz FSB with the AX7-333.

Just a couple of questions:
1. Would I notice a Huge performance increase with the new board and ram? (I'm into gaming and SVCD creation)
2. Would the chip overclock any higher on the new motherboard? (this chip posted at 1600mhz on the Iwill board)
3. Does increasing the FSB create more heat than multiplier overclocking?
4. Does the above noted mobo have the ability to lock the pci/agp speed?

Thanks for input.

LBJGH

[NoStra]

First of all you have a KT133 chipset. So high FSb isn't possible. And therefor your OC is also limited. Second of al you are going from SDRAM to DDR. Your memory performance will tripple (or more) I think.
So you get higher CPU speed and much more memory performance. It is worth the upgrade is my opinion!

Oh...and one comment..it's KX7-333 and not AX7-333.

[Sayajin]

i think you should upgrade
1. Yes
2. Yes it should overclock higher..you are using a KT133 chip..that is limiting you.
3. Well i think it does im not sure though...but you get the most performance form FSB overclocking i know that
4. No you cannot lock the PCI/AGP speed but it does have a 1/5 divider which means when u hit 166mhz FSB everything will return back to default

[Paul.K]

For upgrading YES.......


3: From my own experience I have found that increasing your FSB as opposed to multiplier does indeed increase heat, both from your CPU, northbridge and memory. However the thermal increase is nothing to worry about mate....


Paul...

[LBJGH]

Thanks for all the responses... now all I have to do is get the new computer gear past the F.P. (aka, fun police... aka, my wife) :)

[Paul.K]

LOL mate... I know what u mean.....


paul

[LBJGH]

hmmm, wonder how a 1.6GHz t-bird would compare to an athlonXP? I'd imagine close to a 1900+

[NoStra]

A Tbird@1600 is just like a Xp1600+...

[LBJGH]

How can that be? the 1600+ runs at 1.4GHz.


Originally posted by NoStra
A Tbird@1600 is just like a Xp1600+...

[scrllock]

apparently many people think that the quantispeedrating is equivalent to the pee fours, when its talking about the equivalent thunerbird. So an athlon xp 2200+ would perform about teh same as a 2.2 ghz t-bird. which is why NoStra is correct. It's because of some of the enhancements they did, like adding sSE support.

[LBJGH]

I guess that would be correct if you were only talking about an application that was optimised for SSE. I did run my 1ghz t-bird at 1518 and the benchmarks were very close to an AthlonXP 1800+.

A t-bird @ 1.4ghz is much faster than a P4 1.4ghz so I don't know how you can make that argument....



Originally posted by scrllock
apparently many people think that the quantispeedrating is equivalent to the pee fours, when its talking about the equivalent thunerbird. So an athlon xp 2200+ would perform about teh same as a 2.2 ghz t-bird. which is why NoStra is correct. It's because of some of the enhancements they did, like adding sSE support.