did i just act before thinking ?

[TL|]

ahoy!

I just discoverd theses forums the other day and it didnt take too long before i felt the need to post

The thing is that i some days ago ordered a Xp2400 cpu which will arrive monday. Last night i took a look at the bios of my mobo Abit KG7 raid and *gasp* it seems that it will only support a mutilpier of 13 ...there is an option called "above 13" tho.

So my question is : will this be a month with very little money over for beer or can the KG7 handle my new cpu ?

/ TL

[N8]

TL|,

Welcome to Xtreme

I don't think the KG7 officially supports the 2400+...but I'd think you could unlock it to make it work in it @ a lower mult. Good luck, hopefully someone will have a def. answer.

[TL|]

*update*

Got my xp2400+ today H00ray

set the option to "above 13" in bios and it booted just fine at 15X133. even tho it says "unknown cpu "
Ran 3dmark (god forbid) once , that worked fine too
Back to bios fsb up to 152 voltage to 1.85

Boots at 15X152 = 2280mhz
Ran 3Dmark again ... 13203 points this is with a Radeon 9700 512mb pc2700 (samsung) and the usual crap

seems fine so far but the temp went up to 41 (motherboard monitor reading) so i turned the Vcore down to eeeem the setting under 1.85 1.75 perhaps and im testing that for stability now.

oh oh allmost forgot to mention im cooling this puppy with a water setup, might put up some pics if i can get my hands on a digicam.

Anyways doesnt that #dmark score seem a bit low ? ( i really have no idea since im no longer a fan of the damn program)

Allso any suggestions on what to do now since im forced to clock useing fsb and if i put it up to 153 i randomly get stop screens when booting to win2k stating that i have an "inaccessible boot device" , would actually useing the raid function help ?

Hope you could understand something from all that and thanks for reading

/ TL

[bigdawginva]

Anyways doesnt that #dmark score seem a bit low ?

Yes. My stock 2400+/9700 (no CPU/GPU overclocks) bench is around the 14.5k range. IMO, you're about 1500 marks low with that fsb assuming the GPU is running stock.

Allso any suggestions on what to do now since im forced to clock useing fsb and if i put it up to 153 i randomly get stop screens when booting to win2k

Well, I would think even the 1/4 divider should handle 153fsb pretty well. Perhaps trying trying the 1/5 divider (if you haven't done so). Also, what memory speed/settings are you using with the 2700? Maybe too high/aggressive?

[dukestar]

bigdawginva, his score is not low. The KG7 uses the AMD 760 chipset. Yours uses the KT333 chipset, generations ahead. Unless TL| upgrades his motherboard 13k seems like a decent 3dmark score i feel.

[TL|]

thanks for the answers

the Kg7 does indeed use the AMD 761 chipset and imo this board has never deliverd what i expected , allso the fact that it broke down twice allready (in 11 months) doesnt really help

anyways there is no 1/5 devider only ones available is 1/3 and 1/4 and my memory was running at the bois defaul 2.5 so i set it to 2 just to test what this would do. First boot i got a stopscreen "boot device not accessible" quick reboot and it win2k loads up fine, ran 3dmark with a new topscore of 13370 (hihi) that would be a 167 points increase which isnt that much.

acutally i have been thinking all day *grumble.. its the damn memorybandwhith ... mumble*
So i guess i have to get myself a new mobo after all :/
....which brings us to the next question : what mobo should i get ?
something with builtin lan might be nice , any suggestions on that ?

/ TL

[RichBa5tard]

@TL|, i think it's a fair score for a KG7. Remember the AMD 760 chipset doesn't like high FSB. Perhaps it's time to upgrade to an Abit KD7? I think that's available right now, if you can wait a little longer, go for the nforce2 solution of abit.

[TL|]

*update*

well i spent most of my day optimizing airflow over my radiator (maxxxexpert MXL mono) and while i was whoreing about with that i I decided to take a look under the heatsink on the amd761 , took it off and :O wtf, there was some thermalcompund on there (about 1/3 of the chipset was coverd and there was allso something else that looks like a thin oil or water O_o .
Anyways i decided to lap the heatsink and i allmost fainted - this heatsink probebly only had about 30% that acctually connected to the chipset but after a good 5 minutes of sanding it looked ok

put some articsiver inbetween and off i went.
seems that i can now do 155mhz fsb without the stopscreens on boot (use to be 152) and this gave me a boost in 3Dmark (seems i have become quite a little 3dmark whore of late) 13553 is the new top score.

All there is to do now is to wait for the Abit Nforce2 board i guess

[sforza]

Hey glad to hear the KG7 supports 2400+

With AS3 on the northbridge and the stock heatsink I was able to reach 162Mhz FSB stable to pass 3dmark.

Maybe you want to raise the Vdimm a little to be sure the CAS2 is handled ok.

[Tweaked!]

TL|, Welcome to Xtreme!