Socket A 4ever

[wazzledoozle]

Socket A Forever

Im going to bring my socket A Barton based computer to the limits of (air cooled, insert poor person joke here)silicon.

Part 1: Stock crappyness

Athlon XP 2500+
Abit NF7-S v2.0
512 Megabytes Corsair XMS Pc2700 2-3-3-6
Radeon 9550
80 gb Maxtor ATA133 harddrive

All fully stock speeds

Benchmark scores-

3dMark2001SE) 7985
3dmark2003) 2138
3dmark05) Coming soon
Aquamark3) 17,265
PCMARK04) 3103
Please suggest other benchmarks. I have most major games so game time demos are good also.

Upgraded and overclocked uberness
Athlon XP Mobile 2600
160 Gb Western Digital SATA150
Abit NF7-S v2.0
512 Mbytes OCZ Gold PC4000
Geforce 6800LE (Coming in a few weeks)


Still finding best oc's

 

[wazzledoozle]

Got pics, and today I got my hard drive and ram

I also got a new northbridge heatsink and fan-

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y64/wazzledoozle/nb2.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y64/wazzledoozle/nb3.jpg

Case-

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y64/wazzledoozle/case1.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y64/wazzledoozle/case2.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y64/wazzledoozle/case4.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y64/wazzledoozle/case5.jpg


And 12 grams of artic silver 5
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y64/wazzledoozle/as5.jpg

New nb heatsink keeps my nb temps at room temp

The spots you see ARE NOT blemishes! Just a crappy camera.

 

[Urlyin]

Dang ... Wazz the pics are no go ... Yahoo pulled the plug ....

 

[wazzledoozle]

damnit, know another good hosting site? Ill try photobucket.

 

[Urlyin]

Try this one here ...Wazzz

 

[Urlyin]

wait ... they popped back up ... lol ... go Photobucket ...

 

[Urlyin]

Nice job Wazz ... excellent job on the cables, clean look ... is that a snorkel over the CPU? l

 

[wazzledoozle]

I ended up taking the fan off the NB heatsink due to it not helping any. I might put it on the ram.

Its an air duct that blows air right ino the heatsink, very efficient, lowered my temps by about 10 celsius The 120 mm fan prob helps also

 

[Gzero]

I don't think that do much, I read in a magazine that these heat spreaders we see today plastered all over the new 'cool' ram do nothing but raise the percieved value of the ram, and that the ram doesn't produce enough heat to justify using them even in overclocking.

Make your mind up for yourself, but I did pay money to read that mag so guess the writer was right, I don't have any heatspreaders on my ram so I couldn't tell you if cooling the ram will help in OC or not.

 

[wazzledoozle]

Those heatplates are just so people cant see what kind of ram they use without voiding the warranty

I just want to get some air flowing past them, and MAYBE individual heatsinks for each tsop chip, but that could get expensive, quickly. So probably not.

 

[Gzero]

To think that all corsair twinx are just glamourised value chips....

 

[Urlyin]

Not sure about that ... temps can mean the difference between 280FSB or 290FSB
Keep these words in the back of your mind when OCing

For every 10°C you increase a discrete parts (memory chips, cores, Mosfets, IC's, etc) average operating temperature you cut its lifespan in 1/2 what ever that given lifespan may be. Conversely for every 10°C you lower the average operating temperature you double the parts lifespan. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to conclude that a card that runs 60C will have an average life span that is 4 times longer than if the same card runs 80°C.

 

[Urlyin]

I ended up taking the fan off the NB heatsink due to it not helping any. I might put it on the ram.

Its an air duct that blows air right ino the heatsink, very efficient, lowered my temps by about 10 celsius The 120 mm fan prob helps also

You might want to put the NB cooler back on ... you may need it with the Mobile chip and OCing ... for the memory you can use this here to set over your memory ....


I know who to call if I need any thermal paste ... hehe

Is that the CPU temp next to die on the Digital display on the front?
Good choice on the case ...

 

[wazzledoozle]

The display on the front shows the cases ambient temp, though the probe could be placed anywhere in the case so I might put it on my video card.

 

[Urlyin]

The display on the front shows the cases ambient temp, though the probe could be placed anywhere in the case so I might put it on my video card.

good idea ... the 9550 doesn't have a temp chip?

 

[Ramine]

i think maybe your PSU cables need to be more tidy! but good job over all, hehe i had one of those fan covers, but me cpu fan/heasink is too big!

 

[GoLLuM4444]

the 9550 doesn't have a temp chip?

Correct... mine doesn't even have a fan .

150th post.

 

[wazzledoozle]

Problem is that there are so many cables, I am using wire ties but it doesnt ehlp much. Any good tips?

Oh, I wrapped the front panel connections (usb, buttons/lights, audio) in black electrical tape so they look good.

 

[wazzledoozle]

Got the 2600 Mobile and the OCZ PC4000 Gold
Here are some initial oc screenshots-

This is with my 9550@ 420 core and 220 memory


ANy tips? My PSU cant seem to do more than what it is providing now, so is fsb oc'ing better than fsb oc'ing?

 

[wazzledoozle]

Here is another Sandra bench-
http://photobucket.com/albums/y64/wazzledoozle/?action=view&current=pwned3.jpg

On par with the Opteron 152 with 1 Mb L2!

 

[Urlyin]

Here is another Sandra bench-
http://photobucket.com/albums/y64/wazzledoozle/?action=view&current=pwned3.jpg

On par with the Opteron 152 with 1 Mb L2!

Don't try to get it all in one night ... you'll get the timings dialed in ... that's still crankin
Compare the Aquamark score with the one I posted and look at the differrence in the CPU score .... I see 50,00 with the 6800

 

[wazzledoozle]

It just wont stay in windows for more than 1 minute when I have the ram above 200 Mhz, i have it set at 2.5-4-4-8 2.8 volts...
So for now im at 13 multiplier and 200 fsb with memory in sync. 2.6 Ghz
Not stable enough to play HL2 for more than 15 min.

 

[Urlyin]

It just wont stay in windows for more than 1 minute when I have the ram above 200 Mhz, i have it set at 2.5-4-4-8 2.8 volts...
So for now im at 13 multiplier and 200 fsb with memory in sync. 2.6 Ghz
Not stable enough to play HL2 for more than 15 min.

well need to find the sweat spot ... keep tweaking ... maybe a PM to //mAr ... he's into AMD, We have Nightelf84 who was interested in the OC with the Mobile chip. He may have some suggestions ...

 

[Urlyin]

So Wazz are you happy with the Mobile 2600+ so far? Not counting the memory issue ...

 

[wazzledoozle]

Yeah its been pretty good. It will do 2.6 GHz at 1.9 vcore stable, but there are 2 problems with that-
-PSU cant keep up, it undervolts when I get the voltages up (When I set to 1.85 it supplys 1.8)
-Its too hot. It will go over 60 load.

2.5 GHz is the sweet spot, 12.5 multi 1.85 (1.8 real) vcore. Load temps about 55C

I might get a new cpu heatsink and get rid of this POS, the bottom isnt lapped at all. Or how much do those lapping kits cost? Though the idea of metal particles around me makes me nervous...