Reply 17800 of 27559, by Skyscraper
bofh.fromhell wrote on 2020-12-30, 13:09:That is very cool. Got an ultimate 2000 system put together! Wanna compare benchmarks? =) Mine is not overclocked tho. […]
Skyscraper wrote on 2020-12-24, 01:29:I built a fast year 2001 system that I will use in a future project. […]
I built a fast year 2001 system that I will use in a future project.
Ths system consists of
Asus A7V266-E motherboard (KT266A September 2001)
Palomino Athlon 1800+ @1800 MHz (October 2001)
Geforce 3 Ti 500 (October 2001)
Era correct memory, storage and case.
A somewhat newer Seasonic PSU from 2005 (because it diddn't need a recap...)I was first using a Palomino 1900+ (November 2001) overclocked to 1800 MHz but it's 12x multiplier and the resulting 150MHz FSB was not optimal. The 1800+ with it's 11.5x multiplier is at least a little bit better but I might replace it with a 1700+ running at 11*164 MHz if I find a suitable one (Or perhaps I will unlock the 1800+).
The Palomino Athlons are hot bastards, especially the ones from the first batch (AGKGA) manufactured during the summer 2001 and these will often not overclock beyond 1700 MHz without watercooling. The second batch (AGNGA) that hit the market with the 1900+ could usually do 1800 MHz with air cooling and 1.85V - 1.9V. Later batches made in Q1 2002 like the AGOIA first used for the Palomino 2100+ could often do 1800 MHz at stock voltage and diddn't run as hot.
My 1800+ is a hot running one and it needs 1.85V for full stability at 1800 MHz. The cooler I'm using is a Zalman CNPS7500 AlCu, it's not nearly good enough and the CPU hoovers around 60C but it will have to do for now.
PC Magazine tested some "Ultimate PCs" with Radeon 8500 or GF3 ti500 and P4 2.0 or Athlon XP 1800+/1900+ in the issue released the 6th December 2001. The best performing computer scored 7716 points in 3dmark 2001.
My ultimate year 2001-system scores somehat better than the ones in PC Magazine, perhaps not very surprising as my system is overclocked.
That is very cool.
Got an ultimate 2000 system put together!
Wanna compare benchmarks? =)
Mine is not overclocked tho.
Sorry for the late replay, I have been buisy with work and other hobbies latly. I do not have many benchmark results made with this system to share as it was built as a preparation for a future project.
I mostly wanted to see if this Asus motherboard could do what I needed else I would have bought a board that could. Only a few KT266A chipset motherboards are known to be able to run high FSB (190-210). The Asus A7V266-E isn't one of the great overclocking boards from year 2001 but it's very speedy at FSB 150 - 167 with really low memory latency so I figured that its lacking FSB capabilities wouldn't matter much and I was right.
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I did some other retro related stuff a few days ago, I replaced a few bad caps on a Geforce4 ti4600 and a single bad cap on a MSI motherboard from an Fujitsu computer.
The ti4600 with two visually bad caps, the third of the same type was also bad so I replaced that one aswell.
Lead-free solder... I HATE that stuff... I had to add alot of real solder to get the nasty stuff out but everything turned out alright in the end.
The old caps were baaad!
The new caps are better!
Seems you can only attach a few pics to a post so I will have to make two...
New PC: i9 12900K @5GHz all cores @1.2v. MSI PRO Z690-A. 32GB DDR4 3600 CL14. 3070Ti.
Old PC: Dual Xeon X5690@4.6GHz, EVGA SR-2, 48GB DDR3R@2000MHz, Intel X25-M. GTX 980ti.
Older PC: K6-3+ 400@600MHz, PC-Chips M577, 256MB SDRAM, AWE64, Voodoo Banshee.