AMD XP 2000 and ECS K7VTA3 v.8 $69.99 at Fry's

[TheSuper]

Yeah I too would like to get the votage settings to show up and I only get up to 165 fsb any one know how to get the extra settings to show up as someone said the box says it has it

The_Super

 

[0roo0roo]

http://www.ocinside.de/go_e.html?/html/workshop/pinmod/amd_pinmod.html

 

[puppyfriend]

Pinmod only helps with VCORE and not DDR. Should't have to do it anyways. The box on the board says it supports voltage mods. But there doesn't seem to be anyway to actually do it.

David

 

[SledgehammerFab25]

"AIXHB. that has got to be the best ones yet for tbreds. its a "B" core. "A" which means its in the center of the wafer which means it has best o/c opportunity. its an "X" rather than an "U" which makes it newer. too bad its a DUT rather than a DLT. but still AIXHB is better than AIUHB, JIUHB, NIUHB, KIUHB, etc. "

Thanks JJWIZ 28,
I set the FSB to 166 but my FAR PC2100 dimms weren't up to the task. The chip actually booted up to XP2600 but locked up. As puppy said, there's the little overclockers symbol and mention of the voltage adjustment on the box but no way to alter the voltage in the actual bios. Typical cheapo board/manual error. Perhaps a future bios upgrade will help but I don't really need it. I'm very happy with the deal. It works just fine for me. If I wanted a performance system, I would have put together a dual processor system with faster chips but $$$$ be is tight right now.

 

[puppyfriend]

Sledge, try turning down your memory timing. 3T instead of 2.5T etc etc. You might be able to get it going at 166Mhz.

David

 

[SSibalNom]

i just got a similiar deal at woodland hills w/ same mobo and 2400 for 89.99, as with some of the 2000's they are thorton cores, with the possibility to enable the extra 256KB of L2 cache, making it a barton, look for the longer, more rectangular cores on your cpu, at woodland hills they let me choose, good luck!

 

[SledgehammerFab25]

Originally posted by: puppyfriend
Sledge, try turning down your memory timing. 3T instead of 2.5T etc etc. You might be able to get it going at 166Mhz.

David

Thanks for the info. I tried and it would boot to xp2600 screen then ask for safe mode or normal. Nothing worked. That's ok, I'm happy with a very stable 2000xp. I may go through the trouble though of unlocking the processor when I come across a deal on faster ddr in the future. I just haven't had much overclocking success with xp's except from going to 850 from 700mhz on one chip and from xp1800 to xp1900 and stable. So this sucker looks better (especially if I could up the juice to the processor like the other boards). I may have to play later on in a couple of months.