Author: Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso
Date: 07:41:31 07/02/04
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I like Athlon XP processors - I have one Athlon XP 2700+ _underclocked_ (yes that's right). I have an Asus A7N8X-X (single channel) motherboard, 512Mb+512Mb DDR400 (Kingston HyperX KHX3200A 2-2-2-5 and OCZ 2-2-3-5). My chip runs at 2166Mhz from factory and it ran well for 8 months, when Summer arrived I started to have crashes with my checkers engine and when converting video to DivX. After some experiences with processor intensive applications (like POVray, Alparysoft codec, DivX codec - they crashed) I concluded i has to be overheating, so I undercloked it to 1916Mhz and now I have no problems whatsoever, except it is slower of course. By the way my heatsink is also superior performance and I have more than enough fans ventilating fresh air from the outside to the inside. Only underclocking solve my problem. This is my case, Alvaro Cardoso
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