XP1600+ Overclock

Hey there all - yes, i know i'm living in the stone age with one of these -
but right now - i cant afford to spend out on a newer CPU.

Still, on my MSI KT3-Ultra (non ARU model), it sits at 150x10.5 (1575Mhz)
all day long - rock solid, with a 4500rpm Coolermaster HS/Fan, regular
thermal goo, two sticks of Kingston DDR (one 256mb PC2700, one 512mb PC2100)
running 2-2-5-2 timings w/4-way bank interleave. CPU sits at about 33*c when
idle, and 45*c under 100% load.

Question is - is this any good? Can i squeeze any more out of this cpu if i
do the L1 bridges?

Secondly - where in the UK can you get hold of the gear to mod your CPU,
like the conductive paint etc ?

Cheers all

Kai

Hey there all - yes, i know i'm living in the stone age with one of
these -
but right now - i cant afford to spend out on a newer CPU.

Still, on my MSI KT3-Ultra (non ARU model), it sits at 150x10.5 (1575Mhz)
all day long - rock solid, with a 4500rpm Coolermaster HS/Fan, regular
thermal goo, two sticks of Kingston DDR (one 256mb PC2700, one 512mb
PC2100)
running 2-2-5-2 timings w/4-way bank interleave. CPU sits at about 33*c
when
idle, and 45*c under 100% load.

Question is - is this any good? Can i squeeze any more out of this cpu if
i
do the L1 bridges?

Secondly - where in the UK can you get hold of the gear to mod your CPU,
like the conductive paint etc ?

Cheers all

Kai

Conductive paint can be picked up from any branch of Maplin electronics or
from their website www.maplin.co.uk product code is N36BA. Just picked up a
bottle myself and time permitting I'm having a go at my 1900 at the weekend.
There's a video that makes it look shockingly easy at
http://www.tomshardware.com/column/20011124/index.html

Good luck to us both )

Lord Deckard

"Lord Deckard" wrote in
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Hey there all - yes, i know i'm living in the stone age with one of
these -
but right now - i cant afford to spend out on a newer CPU.

Still, on my MSI KT3-Ultra (non ARU model), it sits at 150x10.5
(1575Mhz)
all day long - rock solid, with a 4500rpm Coolermaster HS/Fan, regular
thermal goo, two sticks of Kingston DDR (one 256mb PC2700, one 512mb
PC2100)
running 2-2-5-2 timings w/4-way bank interleave. CPU sits at about 33*c
when
idle, and 45*c under 100% load.

Question is - is this any good? Can i squeeze any more out of this cpu
if
i
do the L1 bridges?

Secondly - where in the UK can you get hold of the gear to mod your CPU,
like the conductive paint etc ?

Cheers all

Kai

Conductive paint can be picked up from any branch of Maplin electronics or
from their website www.maplin.co.uk product code is N36BA. Just picked up
a
bottle myself and time permitting I'm having a go at my 1900 at the
weekend.
There's a video that makes it look shockingly easy at
http://www.tomshardware.com/column/20011124/index.html

Good luck to us both )

Lord Deckard



Yeah seen the video - still looks scary though!!

Just out of interest - how much is the conductive goo? :P

Secondly - where in the UK can you get hold of the gear to mod your CPU,
like the conductive paint etc ?

Conductive paint is also used for the rear car window, so you could try
at any garage.

Even if your CPU can go higher, your PC2100 Kingston might not.


-- D
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Abit NF7 v2
XP 2600+ Mobile @ 2.5 )
2*256 PC2700 Mushkin Blue
GeForce3 Ti200


"Kai Robinson" wrote in message
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Hey there all - yes, i know i'm living in the stone age with one of
these -
but right now - i cant afford to spend out on a newer CPU.

Still, on my MSI KT3-Ultra (non ARU model), it sits at 150x10.5 (1575Mhz)
all day long - rock solid, with a 4500rpm Coolermaster HS/Fan, regular
thermal goo, two sticks of Kingston DDR (one 256mb PC2700, one 512mb
PC2100)
running 2-2-5-2 timings w/4-way bank interleave. CPU sits at about 33*c
when
idle, and 45*c under 100% load.

Question is - is this any good? Can i squeeze any more out of this cpu if
i
do the L1 bridges?

Secondly - where in the UK can you get hold of the gear to mod your CPU,
like the conductive paint etc ?

Cheers all

Kai

"Dylan Christopherson" wrote in message
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Even if your CPU can go higher, your PC2100 Kingston might not.


-- D
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Abit NF7 v2
XP 2600+ Mobile @ 2.5 )
2*256 PC2700 Mushkin Blue
GeForce3 Ti200

Erm - surely that would be why i want to change the multipliers, no? The
PC2100 does fine at upto 153Mhz FSB with 2-2-5-2 timings, 1T command, but
changing the multiplier to 11, i could keep the same 150Mhz FSB and still
get more out of the CPU. In either case, the MSI KT3 Ultra allows me to run
the memory asynchronous.


"Kai Robinson" wrote in message
...
Hey there all - yes, i know i'm living in the stone age with one of
these -
but right now - i cant afford to spend out on a newer CPU.

Still, on my MSI KT3-Ultra (non ARU model), it sits at 150x10.5
(1575Mhz)
all day long - rock solid, with a 4500rpm Coolermaster HS/Fan, regular
thermal goo, two sticks of Kingston DDR (one 256mb PC2700, one 512mb
PC2100)
running 2-2-5-2 timings w/4-way bank interleave. CPU sits at about 33*c
when
idle, and 45*c under 100% load.

Question is - is this any good? Can i squeeze any more out of this cpu
if
i
do the L1 bridges?

Secondly - where in the UK can you get hold of the gear to mod your CPU,
like the conductive paint etc ?

Cheers all

Kai