Socket A Club

[JrRacinFan]

Rig gallery updated in your honor, Craigleberry! BTW: Nice cables!

 

[eidairaman1]

hey craigle, if you ever use a big cooler such as the TT big typhoon or the Thermalright SI-97 with a 120 MM adapted fan, you may have to remove the aft fan and mount it externally.

 

[eidairaman1]

how do yall upload images?

 

[eidairaman1]

check out the images- sorry its not any better but its a Phone cam

 

[grunt_408]

Yes Lucky this is just for my kids to play with..I know it would be a tight squeeze fitting a big air cooler.(My main rig has a Thermalright IFX-14) I will just whack some mx-2 on and lap that heatsink O/C the cpu with that ram I should (touch wood) get an o.k result. Nice Motherboard eidairaman1 lol.
Edit... I will need some help with Overclocking this puppy.

 

[JrRacinFan]

Updated post 2 eidairaman1. C'mon guys post those mad overclocks so I can put them on the leaderboard also!

 

[eidairaman1]

no major overclocks for me until i get cooling for NB,SB,VRMs, lap the big typhoon Cooler lapped, Bios from NEO over at DFI Club, and possibly a few large intake fans 120. Also Craigle, the Motherboard is the same one you have for your kids system

 

[grunt_408]

no major overclocks for me until i get cooling for NB,SB,VRMs, lap the big typhoon Cooler lapped, Bios from NEO over at DFI Club, and possibly a few large intake fans 120. Also Craigle, the Motherboard is the same one you have for your kids system

Yer thats why I said nice motherboard eidairaman1 in my last post.

 

[eidairaman1]

system specs tell it all, maximum overclock i could obtain was 2.36 GHz but with the current bios and cooling thats the limit, with better cooling and a different bios i can probably obtain 2.5GHz at the least, as some have reached 2.7-3.0GHz on this pup, not bad for old technology eh?

 

[Widjaja]

@Craigleberry.

LOL!
Nice looking old skool PC!
The case doesn't have bad layout.
Better than mine anyway.
The motherboard has some nice colours.
Haven't seen a DVD/CD drive that big in a while.

 

[grunt_408]

Nuffin wrong with old socket a CPU's. The first pc I built was a socket a, I fried the chip with too much voltage cracked the sads with it and basicly switched to Intel. But I had some spare stuff lying around and the kids keep on getting on my pc moving files around the place so I thought time to build em one. Plus I will learn more about Networking and filesharing in the process. Its all good.
LOL Widjaja hasnt seen a DVD rom that big in a while hehehe I have a draw full of hdd's and old cd roms and the like lots of old skool crapola that I have pulled from systems over the years... My fiance is sick of tripping over it lol.

 

[eidairaman1]

not to mention lock it down so they cant do anything but run stuff you install, and surf the internet at sites you approve. BTW i wouldnt recommend overclocking more than 5MHz at a time to prevent any failure, also make sure the timings for the ram are Factory spec before doing overclocking heh (easiest way to get core speed up)

 

[Widjaja]

Socket A aren't that sensitive to overclocking are they?

 

[eidairaman1]

my motherboard certainly doesnt like being pushed hard all at once, its a gradual build up, but it seems 2.36GHz is the max i can obtain with the current setup here are the results of my 205x11 overclock.

 

[grunt_408]

Socket A aren't that sensitive to overclocking are they?

I dont think they do as well as the core 2 duo's. But we will see... just as long as I dont kill this one

 

[Widjaja]

I'm almost certain the AMD CPU's are clocked closer to the limit than C2D.
X2 3800+ will most of the time clock just as high or higher then the higher end X2 CPU's.
This is coming from a 939skt user.

 

[grunt_408]

Havnt had a great deal to do with amd's but it would seem that way.

 

[eidairaman1]

well here is the aquamark 3 score with the CPU at 207x11

Only Problem im having with aquamark 3 is the monitor will blank out with flicker returning to the results screen, im having to do a hard reset (pull power) on the monitor to return it to function- i am unsure what causes that. The Other Thing is with the Overclock the 3D mark Score went down to 3989 Points.

 

[cdawall]

i have a ECS KT600-a sempron 1ghz and 512mb of ct-5 (does 500mhz 2-3-2-6) sitting next to me waiting for a HDD to run

 

[3991vhtes]

i have a 10GB one. I think it works, want it? Pay shipping and it's yours.

 

[cdawall]

i have a 10GB one. I think it works, want it? Pay shipping and it's yours.

i think i can get my 60GB maxtor working again if not i'll PM you about that

 

[3991vhtes]

Download the maxtor maxblast software, version 5. It's a pain in the ass to work with, but it does wonder's with drives

 

[cdawall]

Download the maxtor maxblast software, version 5. It's a pain in the ass to work with, but it does wonder's with drives

it will only work if the drive will boot past the BIOS

 

[3991vhtes]

oh... so true.

 

[grunt_408]

well here is the aquamark 3 score with the CPU at 207x11

Only Problem im having with aquamark 3 is the monitor will blank out with flicker returning to the results screen, im having to do a hard reset (pull power) on the monitor to return it to function- i am unsure what causes that. The Other Thing is with the Overclock the 3D mark Score went down to 3989 Points.

Strange are you using LCD or CRT? I will try and beat that score yo but will not get close .... I just read in yer specs you have X1950 pro agp I only have 9800 pro in my socket a rig. I just had a bit of a shock with my main rig... Turned it on this morning and ran cpu-z , core temp and Orthos just to see that it was still stable and after 30 seconds Orthos returned error!!! I rebooted looked in bios and found the ram divider was set to Auto It should be on 2 and I never changed it. Seems we have gremlins living at our house It works fine now but geez I tell ya what I was thinking the worst