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Subject: Re: 1.81GHz @ 20.0 seconds

Author: Y A Tham

Date: 12:52:06 01/03/02

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I am thinking of getting a new system. If I had the Epox 8KHA+,
Athlon XP1800,DDR ram and a good heatsink and fan; how high can I safely
run it at? What should the settings be? Thanks in advance.

On January 03, 2002 at 12:44:47, Aaron Gordon wrote:

>This was run on an Asus A7V266-E at 1.85v. My previous motherboards I have been
>able to voltage mod (up to 2.3v) however this one I cannot. This board was
>given to me by AMD (along with the rest of the system) to do optimization for
>Quake3.. and I have to keep this hardware configuration for benchmarking.
>
>Now, if I had a choice on which motherboard to get then it would have been the
>Epox 8KHA+. It has the KT266a chipset and you can voltage mod the vcore & the
>ddr voltage. The board can also run up to 210fsb(420DDR) with the use of 1/5 &
>1/6 pci dividers and 2/6 & 1/3 agp dividers. Also at speeds higher than 170fsb
>an option in the bios appears so you can enabled a 3/4 ram divider. That way you
>can run 200fsb (400DDR) and run your ram at 150fsb(300ddr) and have your PCI/AGP
>at stock speeds. Best of all it's only $99 :)
>
>
>On January 03, 2002 at 08:30:55, K. Burcham wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>Aaron thanks for running this.
>>
>>what motherboard are you using?
>>
>>are you able to use a stock voltage setting, or did you have
>>   to modify the motherboard to get the voltage you needed?
>>
>>kburcham



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