Question about mobo for Duron 1600 overclocking.

Hi there,

I have been googling around quite a bit for a Mobo that has the
following requirements:

1.Has VCore adjustments.
2.Has FSB adjustments.
3.Is cheap and basic but fairly stable.

I don't even need multiplier change, because I want to do something
quite simple with a Duron 1600. I have seen a Mobo , the Gigabyte GA
7S748L . However, the Voltage adjustment, according to a review I saw,
is limited to +0,1 VOlts from the default. Is there a way to change
the processor's bridges so that it will have a bit more default Vcore?
Is it true that the Mobo I saw has really those voltage setting
limitations?

Thanks for your attention,


Miguel

On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 07:13:32 -0800, M Arino wrote:

Hi there,

I have been googling around quite a bit for a Mobo that has the
following requirements:

1.Has VCore adjustments.
2.Has FSB adjustments.
3.Is cheap and basic but fairly stable.

I don't even need multiplier change, because I want to do something
quite simple with a Duron 1600. I have seen a Mobo , the Gigabyte GA
7S748L . However, the Voltage adjustment, according to a review I saw,
is limited to +0,1 VOlts from the default. Is there a way to change
the processor's bridges so that it will have a bit more default Vcore?
Is it true that the Mobo I saw has really those voltage setting
limitations?

If you want cheap, $39 can get you an ASRock K7S8X-R3 board. Make sure
it's an R3. Uses the SIS 746fx chipset. FSB adjustments up to 255MHz by
increments of 1. Of course it won't run that high, but I got mine to
215MHz FSB using PC3700 ram. Voltage adjustment has a setting for 5%
increase. Higher than that can easily be done via a wire in the socket. I
raised mine from the default 1.6v to 1.8v with 1 piece of wire. Or you
could change the bridges on the cpu. it has total multiplier control of
all 5 multiplier bits (requires unlocked CPU). The K7S8XE-R3 is the same
except it uses the sis 748 chipset and cost more.

If you want to spend a little more, a MB with the Nvidia Nforce2 400
chipset would also be a good choice.

If the Duron 1600 has a locked multiplier, then a 200MHz FSB would be
2400MHz, but you'll probably want to stay under 180 anyway.

--
Abit KT7-Raid (KT133) Tbred B core CPU @2400MHz (24x100FSB)
http://mysite.verizon.net/res0exft/cpu.html

"Wes Newell" wrote
If the Duron 1600 has a locked multiplier, then a 200MHz FSB would be
2400MHz, but you'll probably want to stay under 180 anyway.

True that the good-old lead pencil trick works with
these new Durons?

Aki Peltola wrote:

"Wes Newell" wrote
If the Duron 1600 has a locked multiplier, then a 200MHz FSB would
be 2400MHz, but you'll probably want to stay under 180 anyway.

True that the good-old lead pencil trick works with
these new Durons?

yes and no I used pencil to activate aditional cache and it worked
but wasn't too solid so after few days it stopped working.

--
£ukasz Ledóchowski
GG:503647

£ukasz Ledóchowski wrote:
Aki Peltola wrote:

"Wes Newell" wrote
If the Duron 1600 has a locked multiplier, then a 200MHz FSB would
be 2400MHz, but you'll probably want to stay under 180 anyway.

True that the good-old lead pencil trick works with
these new Durons?

yes and no I used pencil to activate aditional cache and it worked
but wasn't too solid so after few days it stopped working.

Would you care to post details of how you did this or a link? I've just
reformatted and lost my links on this subject. I nust learn to cut'n'paste
them to a text file in future :-)
--
~misfit~

~misfit~ wrote:

Would you care to post details of how you did this or a link? I've
just reformatted and lost my links on this subject. I nust learn to
cut'n'paste them to a text file in future :-)

Maybe that will help you:

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/dis...908004407.html


--
£ukasz Ledóchowski
GG:503647

£ukasz Ledóchowski wrote:
~misfit~ wrote:

Would you care to post details of how you did this or a link? I've
just reformatted and lost my links on this subject. I nust learn to
cut'n'paste them to a text file in future :-)

Maybe that will help you:

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/dis...908004407.html

Thank you kind sir, duly added to bookmarks.
--
~misfit~

"~misfit~" wrote in message ...

Would you care to post details of how you did this or a link? I've just
reformatted and lost my links on this subject. I nust learn to cut'n'paste
them to a text file in future :-)

This is maybe slightly OT, but I found it quite spectacularly useful
and well done:

http://www.ocinside.de/html/workshop..._painting.html

Also check this out (in German)

http://www.exclaim.de/howtos/artikel...ecken-MOD.html

I don't know any English links on this matter, I was tired of googling
:-) Besides, my German is sufficient to get this read

Cheers,


Miguel