that makes sense then. don't think I'd use a dremel to open them though. rpms on the cutting tool would liekly send the chip flying across the room.. splat!
I just used trhermal grease on my old palomino 1700. :D
pump up that fsb! this 8rda+ rocks. if I had higher memory (like that xms pc3200 you're getting) I'd have the fsb over 200 just with my 1700 tbredA. don't know of how much improvement you'll see in 3dmark03 but your 3dmark01 score should shoot up. that's a wholesale system improvement you'll...
right but the ram is near it's limits at 148. and even if I set the mem back to 133 it still rates out at pc2100 (or kt266A) levels in sandra's mem bandwidth benchmark. by allowing the mem to at least have 140 - 145 the mem scores are equal to pc2700 or pc3200@cas2 levels. there's only so...
you should be fine. I did something similar. hooked up a new heatsink fan (volcano 9) but plugged it into a toggle siwtch in the off position. good thing I was watching when I started up and noticed the fan not spinning. shut it donw within about 15 seconds and there were no problems.:D
Least multiplier is 4 (if I remember right) and yes, it would be nice to hit 200. I probably could by going to 8 or 8.5 but 9 is at it's limits now. at 8 I'd be running 1600mhz and then adjust the mem back down to around 140-145 (it's at 148 now but I'd like to keep it a little lower, it's...
3dmark03 is a dx9 benchmarking suite. 3dmark01 is dx7. You have nothig to worry about with those scores. Besides, they're synthetic benchmarks and don't reflect real world perfomance. How many games take advantage of dx9? None. It's more a gauge of system performance looking 6 months to a...
Here's a vote for Crucial. Great prices on ram now and you can run it at cas 2 no problems. Get the pc2700 to give yourself more room to increase the fsb, though you will have to lower the multiplier to take advantage of that, as pelikan said.
I just got the Epox 8rda+ and have the same cpu (AIUGA core).
I'm running at 9x185 right now with 2 sticks 256mb Crucial pc2100. vcore at 1.625. definitely lower the multiplier and up the fsb beyond 166 when you're ready....
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