Re: [newbie] Athalon 1700+ running on Dragon Plus MB

2002-03-10 Thread Lee
On Saturday 09 March 2002 11:55 pm, Gerald Waugh wrote: On Saturday 09 March 2002 01:10 am, you wrote: Fired up my Dragon Plus w/1900 60G eide drive with 8.2 Beta 4 yesterday. I did almost nothing but watch while Mandrake did it all. Set up my internet connection thru my router,

Re: [newbie] Athalon 1700+ running on Dragon Plus MB

2002-03-09 Thread Lee
On Friday 08 March 2002 09:02 pm, you wrote: Thanks to all who replied, I have decided that since the system is runing so good. and I have much more on my todo list than I will ever get done in one lifetime, I am going to leave it alone. Again, thanks to all Gerald Fired up my Dragon Plus

Re: [newbie] Athalon 1700+ running on Dragon Plus MB

2002-03-09 Thread jquandt3
From: Gerald Waugh This MB has no jumpers, everything is setup in the setup screens. Well the MB has a 266 Mhz FSB, but I guess that when the bus speed is set to 133 the DDR RAM bus is running at 266??? the overcloking feature only affects the FSB (Front Side Bus) it goes up in 1 mhz

Re: [newbie] Athalon 1700+ running on Dragon Plus MB

2002-03-09 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Thursday 07 March 2002 10:19 pm, you wrote: While the MoBo has settings to allow overclocking, your proc is Multiplier Locked, meaning you cannot change the multiplier without physical changes to the proc. All Athlon class, Pentium III, IV's are this way standard. Celerons and Durons may

Re: [newbie] Athalon 1700+ running on Dragon Plus MB

2002-03-09 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Saturday 09 March 2002 01:10 am, you wrote: Fired up my Dragon Plus w/1900 60G eide drive with 8.2 Beta 4 yesterday. I did almost nothing but watch while Mandrake did it all. Set up my internet connection thru my router, picked monitor, and basically left me with nothing to break. Ho

Re: [newbie] Athalon 1700+ running on Dragon Plus MB

2002-03-08 Thread Jeff
On Wednesday 06 March 2002 09:06 pm, you wrote: UMM OK... Don't say I didn't warn you but... Get MASSIVE cooling into that system ASAP If you want to OC an Athy. I kid not... Have at least 3 - 4 80mm Fans going in your PC. No joke, otherwise you do risk frying the

Re: [newbie] Athalon 1700+ running on Dragon Plus MB

2002-03-08 Thread civileme
FemmeFatale wrote: UMM OK... Don't say I didn't warn you but... Get MASSIVE cooling into that system ASAP If you want to OC an Athy. I kid not... Have at least 3 - 4 80mm Fans going in your PC. No joke, otherwise you do risk frying the CPU. As for OCing, if you want

Re: [newbie] Athalon 1700+ running on Dragon Plus MB

2002-03-08 Thread Gerald Waugh
Thanks to all who replied, I have decided that since the system is runing so good. and I have much more on my todo list than I will ever get done in one lifetime, I am going to leave it alone. Again, thanks to all -- Gerald Waugh Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Athalon 1700+ running on Dragon Plus MB

2002-03-07 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 7 Mar 2002 14:04:55 +0800 (WST) Ashley Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, FemmeFatale wrote: Get MASSIVE cooling into that system ASAP If you want to OC an Athy. I kid not... Have at least 3 - 4 80mm Fans going in your PC. No joke, otherwise you do risk

Re: [newbie] Athalon 1700+ running on Dragon Plus MB

2002-03-07 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Thu, 07 Mar 2002, Ashley Reynolds wrote: %_On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, FemmeFatale wrote: Get MASSIVE cooling into that system ASAP If you want to OC an Athy. I kid not... Have at least 3 - 4 80mm Fans going in your PC. No joke, otherwise you do risk frying the CPU. The heat issues

Re: [newbie] Athalon 1700+ running on Dragon Plus MB

2002-03-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 06 March 2002 01:34 pm, Gerald Waugh wrote: This thing is running quite well and seems real snappy running X Now I want to know about fine-tunning it. What are people using for overclocking? I've got a 1.4 Tbird runnin at 1.55 on a Soyo k7vta pro, almost a year now.

[newbie] Athalon 1700+ running on Dragon Plus MB

2002-03-06 Thread Gerald Waugh
This thing is running quite well and seems real snappy running X Now I want to know about fine-tunning it. What are people using for overclocking? and what CPU Freq Multiplier? I have the multiplier on AUTO, so I am not sure what speed the CPU is running at. /proc/cpuinfo says 1.4 Ghz but I

Re: [newbie] Athalon 1700+ running on Dragon Plus MB

2002-03-06 Thread NB
challenge you to find something which will run NOTICEBLY faster at 1.48 vs 1.46 NB - Original Message - From: Gerald Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 2:34 PM Subject: [newbie] Athalon 1700+ running on Dragon Plus MB This thing is running quite

Re: [newbie] Athalon 1700+ running on Dragon Plus MB

2002-03-06 Thread Jeff Quandt
On Wednesday 06 March 2002 01:34 pm, you wrote: This thing is running quite well and seems real snappy running X Now I want to know about fine-tunning it. What are people using for overclocking? and what CPU Freq Multiplier? I have the multiplier on AUTO, so I am not sure what speed the CPU

Re: [newbie] Athalon 1700+ running on Dragon Plus MB

2002-03-06 Thread Jeff
And for god sakes, don't over clock... I challenge you to find something which will run NOTICEBLY faster at 1.48 vs 1.46 I must agree, since, at the present time, memory bandwidth is the major bottleneck to system performance. Your proc spends most of its time waiting for something to

Re: [newbie] Athalon 1700+ running on Dragon Plus MB

2002-03-06 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Wednesday 06 March 2002 05:03 pm, you wrote: And for god sakes, don't over clock... I challenge you to find something which will run NOTICEBLY faster at 1.48 vs 1.46 I must agree, since, at the present time, memory bandwidth is the major bottleneck to system performance. Your proc

Re: [newbie] Athalon 1700+ running on Dragon Plus MB

2002-03-06 Thread FemmeFatale
UMM OK... Don't say I didn't warn you but... Get MASSIVE cooling into that system ASAP If you want to OC an Athy. I kid not... Have at least 3 - 4 80mm Fans going in your PC. No joke, otherwise you do risk frying the CPU. As for OCing, if you want links on how to do so

Re: [newbie] Athalon 1700+ running on Dragon Plus MB

2002-03-06 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Wednesday 06 March 2002 10:06 pm, you wrote: UMM OK... Don't say I didn't warn you but... Get MASSIVE cooling into that system ASAP If you want to OC an Athy. I kid not... Have at least 3 - 4 80mm Fans going in your PC. No joke, otherwise you do risk frying the

Re: [newbie] Athalon 1700+ running on Dragon Plus MB

2002-03-06 Thread Ashley Reynolds
On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, FemmeFatale wrote: Get MASSIVE cooling into that system ASAP If you want to OC an Athy. I kid not... Have at least 3 - 4 80mm Fans going in your PC. No joke, otherwise you do risk frying the CPU. The heat issues associated with overclocking aren't nearly as dangerous as