Wednesday, 3 January 2007
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| PSU voltages 12v rail (multimeter and hmonitor disagree , also, 0.2 jumps). Q_q_anonymous@Yahoo.Co.Uk 13:38:57 |
| | Measuring with a multimeter, my PSU 12V rail varies between 11.4 and
11.6
According to hmonitor, it varies, says at around 11.4 mostly, ,
someitmes goes to 11.19, and for a few seconds, even down to 10.94 !!
When hmonitor says 10.94, my multimeter doesn't say . On my multimeter
it's still between 11.4 and 11.6
5v rail is fine. multimeter reports 5.1, hmonitor reports 5.08
might all this indicate a bad or not good PSU? (potentially damaging
my HDD and CD drive - since they use the 12V rail).
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useful post
PSU/Voltages in alt.comp.hardware.overclocking.amd
shows normal ranges.
though i think tolerances are a larger range. 10% for 12v, 5% for 5V
- so says scott mueller's book and some posts on usenet.
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Monday, 14 August 2006
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| Soltek Mainboard Gakor 06:33:45 |
| | Hello everyone. I'm new to this forum, so sorry if I'm posting this question
in the wrong thread. I posted it somwhere else, but I dont think it belongs
there. Nobody seems to care anyways... no replies. I'm hoping for better luck
here.
Anyways, I'm interested in buying a SL-75FRN2-L Mainboard, but I cannot find
any place to buy one. Can anyone help me out? Help would be GREATLY
appreciated.
Thanks.
P.S: What is "OverClocking" ?
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| Article: "What Athlon do I buy?" Jon D 06:25:51 |
| | I am looking for an up-to-date article like this one to help me choose a
suitable AMB processor.
"What Athlon do I buy?"
http://www.short-media.com/review.php?r=272
Date:November 04, 2004
Does anyone know of such an article?
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| 64 bit help. Robin Gordon 04:34:01 |
| | i succummed to my friends opinions and decided to build a new pc. I was
moving from XP2500+ (205FSB) and Nvidia 6800 (128) Graphics to Opteron 144
with ATI x850XT PE graphics.
i used 2x 256 Corsair PC3200 ram to get me started. i'm using ah Hitachi
250GB harddrive.
after getting the whole thing threw together i got a bitter disappointment,
finding that all the benchmark progs say my old system was as fast as my new
one.
overclocking i can get the opty to 2.5GHz but games pause and creep and take
an very long time to load. Even if i get killed and have to wait on the
game reloading, it takes an absolute age.
where am i going wrong. i even installed XP64 to get a little improvement
but alas it is little.
Do i need more ram or is the bottle neck somewhere else.
My specs are:
Opteron 144 running at 2.5GHz
Gigabyte K8n Sli mobo (f9 bios)
Freezer Pro 64 artic cooling CPU cooler
512 MB Corsair pc3200 ddr400
ATi X850 XT PE (256MB)
Hitachi TK250 HDD
Windows XP64 SP1.
i have all the latest drivers, all 64 bit.
Robin
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Sunday, 13 August 2006
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| Remember Software coolers like Rain and CPUIdle? Dogboy 17:42:08 |
| | I know Windows XP and whatnot has the effect built in. But do they still
work on Athlon XP CPUs if your running say Windows ME (I know, I know,
the GF likes it for some reason)
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| Configing Barton Mobile for HTPC. Need some help. Home Theatre Guy 17:39:58 |
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Ive got it at 2 ghz at 200fsb. But i want to knock the voltage down
abit to reduce the cpu temp.
At the moment its 45c and Ambient in case of 25. Its got a nice big
Zalman cooler on it. But i think the 1.7 colts iv'e got it at is
alittle to much.
Anyone care to suggest some voltages to try that would be stable on
that setup. Please fell free to throw some other ideas or voltages for
other bits at me 
Thanks.
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| Athlon Mike 06:29:56 |
| | AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+
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Saturday, 12 August 2006
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| which ram to Conroe overclock? Jakob Harder 20:53:22 |
| | I'm receivin a E6300 Core 2 Duo ans an ASUS P5B next week.
How fast does the ram have to be to reach modest (not high because I don't
want a very noisy cooling setup) overclocking results.
Can I pick up som cheap G.Skill PC5400 ram or does it have to be PC6400 ?
I'm not up to date on how the ram "follows" the cpu when overclocking on
this setup (my present is an old AMD Athlon setup).
And, by the way, anyone have links to an easy overclocking guide for conroe?
Regards
Jakob
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Friday, 11 August 2006
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| Opteron - single dual core vs two single cores CharlesBlackstone 07:46:52 |
| | Hi, I'm about to buy a workstation, and wonder what the functional
difference would be between getting a machine with two single-core
processors, and a machine with one dual-core processor? Is it
essentially the same thing, or are the two single-cores more
independent in terms of function, memory access, etc. that would affect
overall performance?
Thanks very much......
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Thursday, 10 August 2006
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| Overclocking with a Stock HP Motherboard? Anonymous 16:09:01 |
| | Hi Folks,
I have an HP Pavilion ze4325us laptop; of course, since it's a complete
package type system, the bios does not have any overclocking settings. The
system has an AMD Athlon XP Mobile 2000+ chip and I'd like to overclock it
without buying a new motherboard, power supply, memory, case, etc. Is there
something mechanical that I can do to the motherboard (solder and wires) or
some software way to overclock this chip with my current hardware?
Thanks!
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Wednesday, 9 August 2006
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| A64 4000+ or X2 4200+? Job 23:47:21 |
| | $144 U.S. for the A64 4000+ w/1MB l2.
$185 for the X2 4200+ w/ 2x512 L2
For Games.Which one dudes?Thanks
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| DDR high and low density? Job 11:06:03 |
| | What's this about?I see this on low end DDR.Both have 64x64.What's the deal?
I'm aware of this on PC 100 SDRAM but not DDR.
http://www.pcprogress.com/products.asp?orderid=43846721220905703306197&cat=2
77&pg=4
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Monday, 7 August 2006
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| Timming for this machine. need advise Guest 13:00:22 |
| | I want to get the most of my machine so I am asking some timings from
the group. TIA
Motherboard
CPU TypeAMD Athlon XP, 2200 MHz (11 x 200) 3200+
Motherboard NameAsus A7N8X Deluxe (5 PCI, 1 AGP Pro, 3 DDR
DIMM, Dual LAN, IEEE-1394)
Motherboard ChipsetnVIDIA nForce2 SPP
System Memory1024 MB (PC3200 DDR SDRAM)
BIOS TypeAward (09/27/05)
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Display
Video AdapterNVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra (128 MB)
3D AcceleratornVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra
MonitorViewSonic E90f-2 [19" CRT]
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Motherboard Properties
Motherboard ID09/27/2005-nVidia-nForce-A7N8XC-00
Motherboard NameAsus A7N8X Deluxe
Front Side Bus Properties
Bus TypeDEC Alpha EV6
Bus Width64-bit
Real Clock200 MHz (DDR)
Effective Clock400 MHz
Bandwidth3200 MB/s
Memory Bus Properties
Bus TypeDual DDR SDRAM
Bus Width128-bit
DRAM:FSB Ratio1:1
Real Clock200 MHz (DDR)
Effective Clock400 MHz
Bandwidth6400 MB/s
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DIMM1: Corsair CMX512-3200LL
DIMM2: Corsair CMX512-3200LL
FieldValue
Memory Module Properties
Module NameCorsair CMX512-3200LL
Serial NumberNone
Module Size512 MB (2 ranks, 4 banks)
Module TypeUnbuffered
Memory TypeDDR SDRAM
Memory SpeedPC3200 (200 MHz)
Module Width64 bit
Module VoltageSSTL 2.5
Error Detection MethodNone
Refresh RateReduced (7.8 us), Self-Refresh
Memory Timings
@ 200 MHz2.0-3-2-6 (CL-RCD-RP-RAS)
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| I need a budget psu, Is that ultra psu a good choice? Foreign Steel 04:31:22 |
| | Well, as tittle say I??m next to build an Athlon 64 x2 3800+ based
system, only question is my budget is very slightly so I??ve been
searching a budget psu , What do you think about this one?
Greetings from your neighbor from the south
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1949725
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Sunday, 6 August 2006
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| Athlon XP underclocking Ton Vermeulen 22:22:05 |
| | Hi folks,
Most of you are busy with overclocking; my Athlon XP 2800+ went
underclocking all by itself.
The system consists mainly of the following:
MB MSI K4V-L (MS-6712), FSB 333 Mhz, BIOS AMI Version 07.00T
Ram 512MB Kingston PC2700 CL=2.5
Video ATI Radeon 9600 Pro etc.
It worked for almost 2 years at normal CPU clock speed of 2083 Mhz with
base clock 167 Mhz and multiplier 12.5x.
Some time ago the processor clock fell back to 1090 Mhz; in first
instance I noticed the multiplier had gone to 6.5x and could not be
adjusted in the BIOS settings. It is locked.
Recently I looked further and found that the CPUID data of the processor
has been changed or maybe erased partly.
Earlier the CPUID gave the processor type and model as:
AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2800+ ('amdcpuid.exe' or comparable program).
Now it is:
AMD Athlon(tm) XP (without speed indication).
This can also be seen in the CPUID register 80000003, which is empty
except for the 'X' character (50) in eax of 80000003.
The checksum (or whatever it may be) MSR C0010015 has been changed as
well from 0000-0000-0303-1008 originally to 0000-0000-0703-1008.
I flashed the BIOS with the latest available with no effect.
Can anybody give me a hint about the possibility of
resetting/reprogramming the CPUID data?
I may also unlock the multiplier, but I rather avoid this.
Thanks in advance, Ton (Gorinchem, Netherlands)
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| What is the recommended HTT speed for the AMD 4200+ X2 939 pin CPU? John Smith 20:25:18 |
| | Just got this baby in yesterday. I have it oc'd to HTT 220 and Mulitplied
to 11. I get a speed of 2420.0 MHZ Is that good, or should I tweak it
differently? I have an ASROCK K8 Combo-Z motherboard, and 2 OCZ 1GB sticks
of CAS 2 DDRAM PC3200
Newbie to overclocking.
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| Bios setup Marker 00:05:21 |
| | Hi all,
is it possible to get current BIOS setup in some form like .txt or
something.
Best regards
CD
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Wednesday, 2 August 2006
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| Modified Bios for tweaking CPU & memory speed ? Uffe 01:18:16 |
| | While overclocking my new Athlon 64X2 4600+ on a MSI K8N Diamond (MS-7100)
motherboard I'm restricted by the Bios offering only memory frequency values
200, 166, 133 and 100 MHz (besides some values above 200 MHz).
I'm able to run the cpu reliably at 2772 MHz (12x231), but for that I have
to set the memory (2x512 MB) Kingston HyperX PC3200 at 166 MHz frequency.
This means that the memory is effectively running at 184.8 MHz.
If I set the memory at 200 MHz it effectively would overclock to run at 231
MHz, but the memories won't accept that frequency, even if I relax the
timings.
With my previous cpu (Athlon 64 300+ Winchester) I was able to run these
memories reliably at 221 MHz, so I know I'm giving away memory performance
with my present settings.
An ideal solution would be to find a possibility in Bios to set the memory
frequency somewhere between 166 and 200 MHz.
Some time ago I came across some modified Phoenix-Award Bios versions
offering various tweaking features not found in the official Bios versions.
I just can't recall where/in which forum(s) such modified bios files can be
found.
Any ideas?
Uffe
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Monday, 31 July 2006
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| x800 gto Mladen Cukor 00:33:53 |
| | I have gecube x800gto and I am interested in unlocking on x800 pro or
something like that ( I would to unlock pipes, 12 pipes on 16).Is it
possible?
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Sunday, 30 July 2006
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| 4400+ Guest 18:43:57 |
| | I am ready to buy a X2 4400+, but I don't know which one to buy.
I intend to overclock it.
Do I want the cpu that has a Max Temp 49-71?°C or Max Temp 49-65?°C. I
have included the info from AMD.
Please help!
Thank you
(This is my first post so if I screw up forgive me)
AMD Athlon?™ 64 X2 Dual-Core Details
Processor AMD Athlon?™ 64 X2 Dual-Core
Model 4400+
Ordering P/N (Tray) ADV4400DAA6CD
Ordering P/N (PIB) ADA4400CDBOX
Stepping E6
Frequency 2200Mhz
HT Speed 2000
Voltage 1.30V1.35V
Max Temp 49-71?°C
Thermal Power 89W
AMD Athlon?™ 64 X2 Dual-Core Details
Ordering P/N (Tray) ADA4400DAA6CD
Ordering P/N (PIB) ADA4400CDBOX
Voltage 1.30V1.35V
Max Temp 49-65?°C
Thermal Power 110W
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| overclock Sempron 64 2800+ on a NFORCE4M-A AM2 board Bugboy 09:26:39 |
| | I have been looking in to overclock my sempron 64 2800+ and have
sucessfully gotten up to 1.8ghz but if i go any higher my mobo locks up
and has probs. is there anything that i can do to make it clock higher?
i really can't find any settings in the BIOS, all i can find is the CPU
frequency and HT freq. i can't change vcore voltage and i can't see how
to change the memory clock. i would really like to get the results that
i have seen on the internet, any help would be fantastic. My mobo can
adjust the speed of the cpu well past 270, but i cant even get past
230. thanks in advance
Specs:
Sempron 64 2800+ on a NFORCE4M-A AM2 Socket motherboard
1g of ddr2 400 ram
ATI Radeon X800gto video
two Westerd Digital Sata 250g hard drives in RAID
500w power supply
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