XP-M 2600+
DFI NF2 Infinity
Infineon AT-6

_digitalbath wrote on 2026-06-12, 22:24:

XP-M 2600+ DFI NF2 Infinity Infineon AT-6 […]
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XP-M 2600+
DFI NF2 Infinity
Infineon AT-6

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Whats your cpu voltage at?

1,80v in BIOS. I did not measure the voltage myself.

Wow, nice chip.

true. My best at the moment and probably forever...
These outstanding CPUs are getting rare nowadays.

Did some fab testing on the ASUS A7N8X v2.0 I recapped. Looks like 216 is the highest it will not deal out at with the stock BIOS. Next is to try the modded BIOS and see if I can get higher.

Of note is that this board apparently had some slight liquid deposits on it, even in the socket and the bottom of the CPU that was on it when I got it.

I've already cleaned and dried it and replaced the pink putty with actual good thermal compound on the northbridge.

I forgot about the weird fsb holes that older boards had. Could not get it to POST from 191 to 204. Then 205-216 seem to work ok.

I'm testing with an XP-M 2800+ that was in a different board that I bought. With slight bump in voltage, it POSTs at up to a bit over 2638Mhz.

This is also with a sort of lame standard size thin fin copper cooler.

Edit: looks like the possible max stable fab for this board is 234Mhz with the modded BIOS Guess it could be the CPU doesn't like anything higher as well.

Also, the monitor I was using to test had the backlight die.. uggghhhh.

Best I could do on air cooling (stock cooler). Extremely difficult to find a good 462 cooler these days. I’m still searching. I have a X1950 Pro in mail. Will see if I can push harder to get closer to the big boys when it arrives. Apologies to PcBytes for pushing you out of the top 5 😉

Speaking of coolers, I am planning on designing mounting brackets for newer coolers for older boards. This idea came about specifically because of the scarcity of good coolers for older sockets.

Scores updated!! Welcome to the fun Zuldan!!!

cyclone3d wrote on Yesterday, 04:22:

Speaking of coolers, I am planning on designing mounting brackets for newer coolers for older boards. This idea came about specifically because of the scarcity of good coolers for older sockets.

That would be great. Tesiggi has made one but it’s very specific to his water cooler. What newer coolers were you thinking, socket 775?

supercordo wrote on Yesterday, 11:10:

Scores updated!! Welcome to the fun Zuldan!!!

Thanks! Is it worth adding the motherboard model in the score list, or it’s showing too much info already?

zuldan wrote on Yesterday, 11:29:

supercordo wrote on Yesterday, 11:10:

Scores updated!! Welcome to the fun Zuldan!!!

Thanks! Is it worth adding the motherboard model in the score list, or it’s showing too much info already?

No, there are links to the post and the top 5 are using DFI or abit.

zuldan wrote on Yesterday, 11:28:

cyclone3d wrote on Yesterday, 04:22:

Speaking of coolers, I am planning on designing mounting brackets for newer coolers for older boards. This idea came about specifically because of the scarcity of good coolers for older sockets.

That would be great. Tesiggi has made one but it’s very specific to his water cooler. What newer coolers were you thinking, socket 775?

First thought is anything that has the space for AM4 style spring clips as that looks like the easiest to do.

Some of you guys are truly winning the CPU lottery! I bought an XP-M 2500+ in 2004 - combined with my last Socket A motherboard (Epox 8RDA3+) and a Thermalright SLK 900, the best I was able to achieve was about 2.5 GHz.

The best Socket A cooler I have is a Thermalright AX7, which I have been using with my Epox 8KRA2+. I thought I'd borrow it and try it with the Soyo board only to find that the capacitor that I added to give it Tbred support is too tall/too close to the socket to allow me to use the AX-7, so back the the Spire cooler. It isn't terrible; it does have a copper slug, and it has an 80 MM fan, so I could upgrade the fan so one with higher CFM and give myself a little more headroom. I do have a Thermaltake Typhoon that I have installed on a 939 system (and it does have the hardware for Socket A), but only for motherboards with the four mounting holes. Not worth it for the Soyo board since it is close to the practical limit of the CPU (even with the stout period PSU I'm using, it dips to 4.77 on the +5 when running Super Pi ). It would have been worth a try with my 8KRA2+, but it doesn't have the four mounting holes!

The Ti4600 held it back, so I swapped in a 7800 GS to max it out. But someone out there has a KT266 board that also allows you to increase the RAM voltage, etc. so I don't expect my high score for the KT266 will last.

Boy, Ebay is grim - the only affordable Nforce 2 board I saw was the MSI K7N2 Delta L which doesn't have a PCI lock!

cyclone3d wrote on Yesterday, 03:15:

Did some fab testing on the ASUS A7N8X v2.0 I recapped. Looks like 216 is the highest it will not deal out at with the stock BIOS. Next is to try the modded BIOS and see if I can get higher.

I did my 3D2001 run with my ASUS A7N8X-E board. The ASUS boards can be really good. They need some hardware mods though.

Repo Man11 wrote on Yesterday, 14:58:

Boy, Ebay is grim - the only affordable Nforce 2 board I saw was the MSI K7N2 Delta L which doesn't have a PCI lock!

All NF2 boards should have the PCI lock. Maybe you need to set the AGP clock to 66/67MHz in BIOS manually, but it should work even for this board.

_digitalbath wrote on Yesterday, 19:58:

I did my 3D2001 run with my ASUS A7N8X-E board. The ASUS boards can be really good. They need some hardware mods though. […]
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cyclone3d wrote on Yesterday, 03:15:

Did some fab testing on the ASUS A7N8X v2.0 I recapped. Looks like 216 is the highest it will not deal out at with the stock BIOS. Next is to try the modded BIOS and see if I can get higher.

I did my 3D2001 run with my ASUS A7N8X-E board. The ASUS boards can be really good. They need some hardware mods though.

Repo Man11 wrote on Yesterday, 14:58:

Boy, Ebay is grim - the only affordable Nforce 2 board I saw was the MSI K7N2 Delta L which doesn't have a PCI lock!

All NF2 boards should have the PCI lock. Maybe you need to set the AGP clock to 66/67MHz in BIOS manually, but it should work even for this board.

Maybe this was fixed in a later BIOS, but I'm not getting my hopes up. Likely a reason why it's one of the more affordable Nforce 2 boards.

"12/04/02 UPDATE: MSI sends word that the K7N2-L indeed does not have a PCI bus lock at 33MHz, meaning you will overclock your PCI bus to a certain level at a certain overclocked FSB speed."

https://web.archive.org/web/20040330075139/ht … tml?i=1759&p=29

Repo Man11 wrote on Yesterday, 20:25:

"12/04/02 UPDATE: MSI sends word that the K7N2-L indeed does not have a PCI bus lock at 33MHz, meaning you will overclock your PCI bus to a certain level at a certain overclocked FSB speed."

https://web.archive.org/web/20040330075139/ht … tml?i=1759&p=29

Interesting! I had a Delta L board some time ago. It did 233MHz FSB with a mod BIOS (no voltmods). I didn't have any issues. To be honest, I am not able to measure the PCI clock. So I have no clue if there is a PCI clock lock or not.
Confirming an AGP lock and without PCI makes no sense to me. Anyway, there are better NF2 boards out there.

I have 2 of them that i haven't even touched yet.

This looks like these might be some decent coolers for socket 462!!!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/357917321127?_trkpar … V1F2712AQ4PK00Q

https://www.ebay.com/itm/336636531280?_trkpar … HGM3HDXW1T9PFFS

supercordo wrote on Today, 00:10:

This looks like these might be some decent coolers for socket 462!!!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/357917321127?_trkpar … V1F2712AQ4PK00Q

https://www.ebay.com/itm/336636531280?_trkpar … HGM3HDXW1T9PFFS

Well, somebody bought them.