Author: Aaron Gordon
Date: 09:29:48 02/10/04
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Here is some of your specs: http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.html?i=1901&p=2 Looks like you can do up to 1.70v for the vcore. Definitely put your DRAM up 0.3v+ from default if you can if you do plan on running 220-230fsb or more. May need to run CAS-2.5 or CAS-3 as well. Hopefully you don't have picky ram. I have 3 sticks of PC2700 here that will run CAS-2, CAS-2.5 and CAS-3.0. The PC3500 stick I have for testing will only post a CAS-2 and CAS-2.5 no matter what FSB I use. Even if I do 100fsb(200DDR) and CAS-3.0 it won't post.. so keep this in mind if you have problems posting at CAS-3.0. If you're starting to get unstable at higher fsbs try kicking up your VDD (chipset) voltage. My motherboard doesn't have the option to change it so I had to physically solder on two resistors to bring the VDD up from 1.60 to 1.85v.. allowing me to get up to about 230fsb on my Epox 8RDA. For now you should be safe & try to figure out how high the CPU itself will go.. try keeping the fsb as close to 200MHz while you do this. Such as trying 12.5x200 for 2.5GHz at 1.70v vcore. Lets say, if that works and you cannot go any further.. try lowering your cpu down to say.. 1.5ghz (yes 1.5, well below default) and seeing how high you can push your fsb. Once you figure out the two you can then find the optimal clock. Lets say your fsb max is 234.. CPU max is 2.54ghz. Your best bet would most likely end up being 11x228 @ 2508mhz.. for example. Let me know how it goes w/ the new toy.. :)
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