On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 00:22:03 -0500 Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Keep in mind my usual advice on this list is that hardware needs > to be eliminated from any problems, specially if it's a ready made, > in the first place. OC'd or not. OTOH, if it's there, RUN IT!! > > Windoze reviews: the current darlings are the nforce an newer KT > 400a/600 chipset boards runnin AMD XP's. P4's are bitin the dust, > still no decent chipsets to run on. OTOH, are these winsux reviews > applicable to Linux? As far as chipsets go ....yes an no. nforce* > chipset boards have several unresolved issues with Linux, gcc, an > GNU. Forget anything SiS. As far as Winblows reviews on hardware > sites, disregard, IMO, is usually the better idea. They have little > to do with a real OS. > > So, just a report. I changed out a tired an old oc'd 1.4 Athlon > (1.553g) on a Soyo KT133a chipset with sdram, for an XP 3000+ with > Kingston DDR400 on an Aopen AK77-400 Max with a KT400a chipset. > Didn't really wanna but the ancient (8 years!) ram was startin to > fsck'up on the old mobo. Run hard, put up wet. Might'a been the cpu > L caches anyhow... > > Pulled the case out from under the table, changed out the > motherboard/ram/cpu. What'a heck, tryin boot. ...... No problemo, > harddisk recognized a differnet NIC (now onboard), different AC97, > now 5.1 surround, and 9.2 cooker went about it's business. No > disruption for aDSL or sound. HDD's love the new board /cpu/ram/ > controllers. > > So went to testin and clockin. The Kingston ram was a > convienice. I got it bundled with the cpu/mobo. It was a variable, > even a concern since it's only sold by Mwave as Cas 3 DDR ram. > After several weeks testin tho, the ram has performed flawlessly at > Cas2.5, Ras/Cas 2, pre-Charge 2, at 2-bank, now DDR427. Way over > it's specs. Ram is what'll do, an I'm not sure I've found the top > of this Kingston yet. Still, I wish I'd gone to the trouble of > gettin Crucial or Corsair. > > Currently (as I type), the XP is at 2301mhz (13x177, 354 FSB, PCI > 35.2mhz) and rock steady. I keep inchin it up. Might go a bit or > more further. I haven't tried reducin the multiplier and goin to a > 200+ FSB yet. I reckon I'm better off stay'in with oc'd 166@ 177 > since the PCI is only out'a spec @ 35.2mhz, an the AGP is just over > 70mhz. Some view this mistakenly as overclocked. It's not. It's > just out'a spec. Damn nVidia card was complain, but recent cooker > updates to XFree86 cooled that off. (XFree86-4.3-19mdk) > > I know y'all believe memtest86 is _THE_ test, an I confess I run > it first too. But it's a weak test. It sort'a sux. Better is > mprime's #17, the torture test. Harder still, the acid test is, > cpuburn's 'burnK7'. One or two passes with memtest is a breeze, run > mprime's torture test thru test #1800 or so, run burnK7 for 25 > minutes ..... then you know your hardware is stable. So far I am > with an XP core at 2301, CL2.5-2-2-2 DDR427. > > So I gott'a XP Whatever (3600+?) that RUNS like a scalded ape. > Glibc compiles are a lot shorter ;) No Winsux ;) > -- > Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas > So what were you needing your newbie help with Tom? -- Michael
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