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[Burnout]

I would imagine you would be able to up the VCORE and stabilize it, but I wouldn't. Start messing with that stuff and you mess up just a bit, say goodbye my P4.

I was playing with my CPU today, had it at 1650 at one point, took it down to 1630, though. I wanted to put my other 128MB stick in but it's rated for 266, so having it at 310 is already pushing it. I might shoot it up to around 1700 maybe and bench mark....

Right now, with the CPU at 1.63GHz I bench soo close to the 2000+. I'm thinking I might go ahead and raise until I get the same...Migth be pushing the RAM too far...

 

[Pako]

I would agree! My 2.0 lasted quite a while and I was able to sell it in a new system to help fund for the 3.2, all in all I think the 3.2 is a very stable chip and accompanied by the Serial Raid Drives, and 433 Ram, and the 800mhz FSB....it's a stable, screamin' machine.... It's still not fast enough though.. I suppose until we can jack in, it will never be fast enough.

 

[Burnout]

Speaking of which...

That's my 1600+ at 2000+ speeds. Cool!

 

[Pako]

Cool! How stable is it?

 

[Burnout]

Well, I ran MemTest86 a few times, RAM is stable. Ran a burn in test for a while and the CPU appears to be stable as a rock. Temps are 45C Idiol, 51C full load. Not too bad for such a cheap little chip. I hear the 1600+s are great overclockers...

 

[Pako]

Nice! I was actually thinking about building a nice little gaming system to put on the lan, possibly around the 1600+ chips.... The major investment would be the VCard, everything else is fairly inexpensive.

 

[Burnout]

All I'm doing is raising the FSB, so if you get some PC2700 you could easily hit what I'm hitting and higher. I have a 128MB stick of PC2100, which is holding me back because the other is 256MB PC2700, so it's underclocked. I'm pretty amazed that the PC2100 is handling 316MHz so well, it's not even great RAM.

If my video card was better I could probably play a lot more games than I do. Because of how few things, such as fog emulation, my video card's hardware doesn't support, my CPU has to emulate. What sucks is I'll be getting really smooth gameplay then someone would shoot a missle and the explosion would bring me to 10FPS and below. I'm currently working on getting a decent video card, because I'm starting to get into gaming.

I'd say you could put together a system like mine for around 200-250, not including a video card. I'm talking 512MB RAM, the CPU, case, PSU, etc. Just look around.

 

[Race Idiot]

Originally posted by Pako
Serial Raid Drives

As in Serial ATA raid? don't those drives cost a packet? My mobo has serial ATA raid, but at the moment I just used the old hdd's out of my other pc (two old 40gb Maxtors). I need to buy some more ram and a quiter psu first before I get anymore hard disks.

 

[Pako]

They were cheaper than SCSI! I picked up a couple 120gb serials for around $140 if memory serves me correct.

 

[Race Idiot]

Originally posted by Pako
They were cheaper than SCSI! I picked up a couple 120gb serials for around $140 if memory serves me correct.

SCSI is always expensive.

$140 for 2? Hmm, I might have to look into SATA drive prices in the uk. Is access time faster than standard ATA (I forget the damn terminology for HDD speed, was it in RPM?). Oh and do they use the same molex power plugs like ata drives?

 

[F1man]

Yes very expensive. 18 Gigs for $220.00. Wow what a deal. So why are these SCSI drives so expensive? http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=135

 

[emad]

SCSI is expensive because it's an absurdly fast transfer interface. I'm not sure exactly how fast but it's supposed to be FAST. Serial ATA is also pretty fast but the price isn't too much greater than the standard IDE cables so it's a better, more affordable alternative.