Is this normal?

[fishmahn]

I finally bought a new machine to replace my aging 1gig Athlon from before 133fsb... I find that I bought the wrong mobo (but it was cheap, and I'm into cheap) but I'm still happy with it as it OC'd pretty well.

It's a Soyo SY-KT600 Dragon Plus v1.0 mobo with a Athlon XP 2600+ (Barton) 333fsb and 1gig (2x512) PC3200 No-name (A-Plus, or A-bit or something like that - like I said, no-name lol) RAM, Seagate 7200.7 SATA 80gig, Radeon 9600XT/128MB.

I was able to run the FSB up to 195 stably (actually, 197 it would load and run well, but after a few hours the system would lock, so... 195 it is) and cpu temp stays below 50 (usually 44-48, even when gaming) on the stock (retail) fan/heatsink. Since the mobo can't up the Vcore, I can't go any faster I don't think, although the 1.65 the board says is really showing as 1.61-1.63 in the HW monitor (cheap PS - did I mention I'm into cheap?)

Is that pretty normal (this level of easy FSB OC) for the Barton cores?

Also, since there's no PCI/AGP lock, does that mean the PCI bus is running at 195/6? I'm assuming it's a /6 divider because with base FSB set to 166, then upped, I couldn't get past 187 (I assume it's using the /5 divider in that case).

Thx for everyone's opinions

Mike.

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[Ned_Flanders]

undervolting is prolly either the cheap powersupply you have, or the motherboard. If the volts are being reported correctly, then that chip is very good, as I couldnt get my barton 2500 to do 3200 with out 1.775 vcore.

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[Crashman]

You'd be able to reach 200FSB with that chip of you had a better board.

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[Coyote]

agree with the two posts above. For a vcore of only I.6I-I.63 thats a fairly good chip, better than the one I got. So, yeah it's normal, if not a little better than normal.

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[fishmahn]

Thanks everyone for your thoughts.

Yes Crash, I know (now) that I got the wrong mobo. I'm not changing it at the present time, however. In fact, I'm probably not going to change it at all knowing me (I'd intended to put a faster cpu in my 1Gig ath, but never got around tuit).

One more question, and I'm probably going to have to try it out for myself, but what's your opinions on which is probably the fastest performance-wise (or does it really make much difference).
1) Running the FSB/5 divider (mobo jumpered to 166Mhz) at 187mhz (37.4 PCI, 2.16G CPU, 187 RAM)
2) Running the FSB/6 divider (mobo jumpered to 200Mhz) at 195Mhz (32.5 PCI, 2.25G CPU, 195 RAM
3) Running the FSB/5 divider (mobo jumpered to 166Mhz) at 187mhz (37.4 PCI, 2.16G CPU) with the RAM set at 200, I think it said it was 225 RAM (it's PC3200 RAM, so it might have the headroom, I didn't try it yet)

And, if there's not a lot of difference, then which would appear to be safest (i.e. component longevity)?

 

[Cybercraig]

Option 2 looks the best. The other two leave you with an XP3000+. The faster ram should be the difference.

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