I just got my replacement 8KHA+ from Newegg and have been pushing my Kingmax pc2700. Regardless of what people say, I think the Y+ marked BIOS definitely overclocks better than the N+ marked 8KHA+'s (I'm talking about the marking on the physical BIOS chip). My old 8KHA+ was an N+ version and I could only get my Kingmax to 172MHz with the most aggressive memory settings. With my new mobo I've been able to get my memory to 180Mhz at CAS2-2-5-2-1. I think I've maxed it out at 190MHz CAS3- 3.2v. I'd like other Kingmax pc2700 owners to post their scores to get an average overclock rating. Please download or update your version of Sandra to 2002 so the results are comparable.
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Man that put the P4 memory scores to shame. Good job. My Crucial sucks and craps out at about 143Mhz cas2 2-5-2-1. I have made it to 147, but not 100% stable. I guess that is not too bad for PC2100 Cas 2.5.
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C'mon I know there are more than a few people on here who have this stuff. I broke 2800/2700 at 190 with slightly more aggressive settings. I'd like to see someone with an Athlon XP post their scores because I'm sure the scores would be at or past 3GB/s. I sold my XP 1700 because it just would not unlock. My trusty 1400 is doing just fine in its place though until I can get a Thoroughbred (if AMD even plans to release them??).
Todd, your Crucial craps out at 147 even with the max vmem voltage? Most people who have Micron sticks can get theirs to 166 with a little juice.
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Sir, are you classified as human? Negative, I am a meat popsicle.
Originally posted by tysidor: I haven't been able to push my kingmax to the limit. When I ordered it I also ordered an IBM 120GXP. The 120gxp craps out at any fsb over 145.
Buy a Promise Ultra100(or 133) TX2 IDE expansion controller. It's made to run in 64bit PCI slots (66Mhz), so it can handle anything you throw at it and your drives will run safely in spec too.
If you want the ultimate overclockable system, you need an IDE controller that can handle those high PCI bus frequencies, a cheapo NIC based on the Realtek 8139/810x chipset (they perform great and overclock even better), and a good soundcard. None of my components (except my Geforce3 when overclocked) stop working at any of the fsb settings I've tried that my DDR can handle.
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tysidor, are you sure it's your 120GXP crapping out at 145FSB? I find that very strange. The reported overclockability of the 120's is excellent. I actually just bought one for a friend upstairs (uni hall) and it's running quite happily at 160MHz. I've seen them reviewed and tested to 175MHz; about the same as the 75GXPs are capable of. The 60GXP's are pretty ****e though. Mine limits me to about 155MHz.
Nope, but 190@CAS2 4-way interleaving disabled is pretty damn close in terms of performance. There's no way I'd get to CAS2 at 200. Maybe if I did a vmem mod...
I've noticed that 4-way interleaving and even running at CAS2 don't offer much more throughput at these fsb's with old Athlons. Now that XP 1700's are so cheap, I may just get one and keep that until Hammer is released.
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Sir, are you classified as human? Negative, I am a meat popsicle.
I've also noticed that those two options don't yield much performance increase with DDR. Probably because latency is less of an issue with the higher mem clock. Just look at *ambus.
wrathchild_67----Yea, I am sure it is my 120gxp. I was running with two 60gxp's upto 149fsb successfully. I also thought it was weird that it was stuck at 145 so I threw my other 60gxp back in which still had WinXP on it and everything was fine.
I might look into that specific controller you mentioned. I would love to push this KR7 and Kingmax as high as it can go.
Any idea's how high 3Com 3c905c-txm cards or Linksys Nic's can handle? Those are the two cards I have sitting around. On the other hand I am sure it wouldn't be that hard to come up with a cheap realtek somewhere.
By the way very impressive overclock. Thanks for the advice.
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