Dothan screams like scalded CAT!!!

[charlie]

charlie, what's the max you have gotten that chip Prime stable? Also, what about the max fsb on that new board?

Well, I don't DO Prime95, just don't care I guess... but it does 2711 sPi 1M stable and 2741 piFast stable. And I still get the same 160+ errors as before, even using agp/pci up to 76/38.... you know, the SLOW MOTION effect in Windows

C

[STEvil]

2500+ #1 - Ran extremely stable at 10*200MHz with a core voltage of 1.7v.

2500+ #2 - Ran stable at 10*200MHz with a core voltage of 1.85v. Notice I did not use he word "extremely". If left running for a period of 15 to 18 hours, the system would finally crash to the desktop.

2500+ #3 - Would not run 200MHz FSB at all, no matter the voltage

linkie : http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NDUz

a7n8x is one of the worst nF2 boards ever made.

does this mean the maxmem 104 tweak does more bad then good to a P4 or dothan system?

Whats the ram mhz got to do with maxmem tweak?

[IvanAndreevich]

charlie
Slow motion effect? Can you tell me about that please.

[charlie]

charlie
Slow motion effect? Can you tell me about that please.

well, if you double click a desktop icon, it takes 7-8 seconds to appear. Sometimes you won't see sPi tabulating results and then 3 or 4 lines will appear. When you run the cursor over the start button, the START disappears, when you push the button, the start box opens in 5-10 seconds.....

slow-motion effect
Probably related to Display Driver

[IvanAndreevich]

charlie
Did you try some el-cheapo ancient PCI videocard?

[charlie]

charlie
Did you try some el-cheapo ancient PCI videocard?

no, but I tried the onboard VIDEO and it does the same

[macci]

kristos & co. AXP, okey well maybe some of the AXPs have some wierd problems running high FSB. But thats AMD and AXP not Intel and Dothan
Also the link w/ 3 AXP2500s FSB test was hardocp OC-article so pretty much anything is possible

charlie, 160+ should work better if you use the integrated video (without driver)?

edit: nevermind didnt' see your last post

[IvanAndreevich]

charlie
The thing is, the onboard video is AGP as well. I would try PCI BTW, when you try PCI you might also try killing the AGP driver in the device manager.

I can see why it may have problems with AGP drivers, since this was intended as a laptop chipset.

macci
>>OC-article so pretty much anything is possible
Yes we all know [s] and their vast knowledge of hardware.

[kristos]

a7n8x is one of the worst nF2 boards ever made.

but that doesn't change that the only thing different on that setup were the processors so the difference in FSB can (should) only have been due to the processors themselves.

Whats the ram mhz got to do with maxmem tweak?

I thought it was the amount of memory used set in with maxmem but the mhz clock seems more logical my bad

Also the link w/ 3 AXP2500s FSB test was hardocp OC-article so pretty much anything is possible

is there any review site that you mad clockers do approve?!? :p

I mean tomshardwareguide ain't good, hardocp ain't good, anandtech is better but still not good enough...

where does a guy like me have to get his info then

[STEvil]

Each processor required a different voltage to reach the overclock they were doing, so that may have affected the power being delivered to the rest of the system.. that indicates a PSU or motherboard issue (motherboard more so since FSB suffered).

What they really should have done is tested each on two or three boards known to do both high cpu clocks and high FSB's, as well as tested the CPU's on say an older Epox 8K3A+ to be sure it wasnt just an nF2 issue..

But thats getting into a lot of work to do..

[IvanAndreevich]

kristos
>>is there any review site that you mad clockers do approve?!? :p
FORUMS. People get new hardware here and they write about it. Better than any review out there Because -
1) They will listen to what you have to say and respond
2) They will do their best to resolve any problems because they usually pay for it with their own money, whereas reviewers will only and cry that something doesn't work

[Sorry for getting offtopic]

[charlie]

They don't appear to love PiFast, though... like ALL Intel's.

[IvanAndreevich]

Anything interesting to conclude the year with?

[death metal]

i know that 3dmark03/05 are more GPU-friendly and not so CPU-friendly, but has anyone run Dothan on these benchies?

[charlie]

Anything interesting to conclude the year with?

Nope....
Already turned my attentions to other CPU/MOBO combinations

C

[jmke]

whereas reviewers will only and cry that something doesn't work

[Sorry for getting offtopic]

so you're just saying every reviewer out there does no effort to do any experiments with overclocking or finding out what's wrong and trying to fix it?

[Charles Wirth]

DFI is releasing a second revision of the 855GME with voltage control and locks fixed.

This board will also feature mounting holes for a aftermarket socket 478 HSF

[b|gf|sh]

DFI is releasing a second revision of the 855GME with voltage control and locks fixed.

This board will also feature mounting holes for a aftermarket socket 478 HSF

Sounds good

[NiCKE^]

Might could be something good there FUGGER

[kristos]

when will this be? my DFI 855 is still in RMA, if they plan on bringing out a new revision soon, I might be able to arrange something with the shop where I bought it from (if they plan on replacing my board that is).

[Johnny Bravo]

FUGGAR can you tell us anythig about your source of this information, links etc......?

[macci]

i know that 3dmark03/05 are more GPU-friendly and not so CPU-friendly, but has anyone run Dothan on these benchies?

Here is one - notice GT1

[shidokanjohn]

Amazing score...at gt1 i have 426 with 3.4 EE at 4.6Ghz!!!

[death metal]

macci, dang....that's uber......and tnx for answering and giving the link =)

[IvanAndreevich]

jmke
Not referring to madshrimps Obviously you guys are cool to even hang out here.