Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 11:52:07 06/30/03
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On June 30, 2003 at 14:42:36, Mr j smith wrote: >On June 30, 2003 at 14:06:43, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>On June 30, 2003 at 12:14:35, Sean Mintz wrote: >> >>>I originally used the Tyan Tiger MP. It doesnt have video, networking, sound, or >>>anything like that which is what I wanted. It was a fast board, completely >>>stable, and I used it for almost 2 years. It got destroyed during an electrical >>>storm, though. I replaced it with a Tyan Tiger MPX which was a later revision >> >>electrical storm? >> >>What do you mean? >> >>I have 150000 volts above my head. If that ain't generating a big enough EMF, >>then the only thing that i can imagine at the moment generating a bigger EMF >>field is a H-bomb in the atmosphere. >> >>Of course you need 3 wires to the machine. 2 power wires and 1 earth, otherwise >>nowadays todays computers destroy themselves ;) >> >>>that also included networking capabilities. Better performance, still completely >>>stable, but also can be overclocked. I have my dual 1.2 ghz athlon mp's (the >>>originals) at 9x150 (1350 mhz). >>> >>>These boards have been great to me and if they sound like what you're looking >>>for then I would definately suggest them. >> >>i personally find all the dual K7 motherboards suck ass. Most boards the com >>ports do not work. good example is the Tyan stuff. only bios 2.07 the both com >>ports worked. the newer ones it doesn't. >> >>for an auto232 player pretty critical. >> >>currently i have a MPX2 motherboard. it is the best board i had so far, but keep >>in mind that this board is discontinued. >> >>dual opteron is what rocks now. > > >Do you know how far the dual opteron motherboards can be overclocked? By that I >mean the FSB. > >Thanks in advanced. I know that my MPX motherboard doesn't overclock at all, unless i buy all kind of stuff to cool all chipsets and that i kick out all USB devices and such. overclocking duals or quads is a very BAD idea. if i put FSB from 133Mhz to 134Mhz it already gets hung here after a while. i guess it is the usb optical mouse that causes. I have as heatsinks: swiftech 462 and on the other i have a thermalright SLK800 that latter heatsink sucks ass and the first one i love but at the second socket it didn't fit, the reason i use such heatsinks is because i want a silent pc. i don't want a delta airlines machine like my old dual K7 is. It produces more noise than a delta airlines jumbojet. Or in fact exactly that. it has delta fans. Right now i regrettably need 1 delta fan to blow air onto the slk800. I have some slower running fan here but then the processor gets too hot when diep is running. I bet opteron is a server processor where you should not toy with at all considering that it burns 80+ watt. People overclocking duals take a big risk. What i do remember is that in past i had overclocked PII300s to 450Mhz. After a few months they one by one collapsed. In general i do not remember anything that ran dual that overclocked well in a very stable way for many years. I remember diep ran at the icc shortly at a dual 550Mhz celeron. i know another 10 guys who had dual celerons. they all broke within 2 years. overclocking is a bad habit, but i can't deny that i sometimes try it.
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