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airspirit · 09-13-2002, 01:15 PM

Funny, I took that computer I built for that gal at work yesterday and had a bit of fun with it. She had a keyboard issue (user error) and wanted me to look at it, so I took Fuzzy Logic 4 (MSI app) and started seeing how high I could push it. It was a MSI KT3Ultra2 with a Radeon 9000 64MB, Western Digital 40GB 7200RPM drive, Floppy, Samsung DVD Combo Drive, Ancient Generic Modem, 1700+XP, and Crucial DDR266 256MB. I had it running normally at 11X145 (I kept it at 1900+/1600Mhz for ensured stability), and decided to have fun. I cranked up FL4 and started bumping up the FSB 1Mhz at a time. I passed the 153 (1/5 divider) mark easily, got to 166, and ran a bunch of normal apps (nothing hard), and it ran fine. I had hit 9X172 (under 1600Mhz) fine previously, but I was still at 11 multi (currently 1826Mhz aircooled). At this point I had a co-worker over my shoulder screaming "HOLY SH!T!!!" so I kept going. 170 passed, 172 passed, and it finally went to BSOD at 11X176 (1936Mhz, or about 2400+, if my reckoning of their "old" system is right, and at 1.85V/2.6V/Auto AGP Voltage with CAS2 timings being cooled by a stock XP cooler at WAY over 50C ... I almost crapped myself ... though it only reached this point inside of an idling windows XP environment). That MSI board did pretty nice, if I do say so myself. That was with PC2100 DDR, too (granted it was Crucial). I only hope that the DDR400 I'm planning on dropping into my board allows the same thing.

09-13-2002, 01:15 PM	#37
airspirit Been /.'d... have you? Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Moscow, ID Posts: 1,986	Funny, I took that computer I built for that gal at work yesterday and had a bit of fun with it. She had a keyboard issue (user error) and wanted me to look at it, so I took Fuzzy Logic 4 (MSI app) and started seeing how high I could push it. It was a MSI KT3Ultra2 with a Radeon 9000 64MB, Western Digital 40GB 7200RPM drive, Floppy, Samsung DVD Combo Drive, Ancient Generic Modem, 1700+XP, and Crucial DDR266 256MB. I had it running normally at 11X145 (I kept it at 1900+/1600Mhz for ensured stability), and decided to have fun. I cranked up FL4 and started bumping up the FSB 1Mhz at a time. I passed the 153 (1/5 divider) mark easily, got to 166, and ran a bunch of normal apps (nothing hard), and it ran fine. I had hit 9X172 (under 1600Mhz) fine previously, but I was still at 11 multi (currently 1826Mhz aircooled). At this point I had a co-worker over my shoulder screaming "HOLY SH!T!!!" so I kept going. 170 passed, 172 passed, and it finally went to BSOD at 11X176 (1936Mhz, or about 2400+, if my reckoning of their "old" system is right, and at 1.85V/2.6V/Auto AGP Voltage with CAS2 timings being cooled by a stock XP cooler at WAY over 50C ... I almost crapped myself ... though it only reached this point inside of an idling windows XP environment). That MSI board did pretty nice, if I do say so myself. That was with PC2100 DDR, too (granted it was Crucial). I only hope that the DDR400 I'm planning on dropping into my board allows the same thing. __________________ #!/bin/sh {who;} {last;} {pause;} {grep;} {touch;} {unzip;} mount /dev/girl -t {wet;} {fsck;} {fsck;} {fsck;} {fsck;} echo yes yes yes {yes;} umount {/dev/girl;zip;} rm -rf {wet.spot;} {sleep;} finger: permission denied