_digitalbath wrote on Yesterday, 20:10:

A modified Arctic Copper Silent 3. I've improved the fan. :-P The reason why I am using it, the FAN blows directly to the VRM c […]
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supercordo wrote on Yesterday, 19:54:

What cooler are you using?

A modified Arctic Copper Silent 3. I've improved the fan. 😜
The reason why I am using it, the FAN blows directly to the VRM cooler on my ASUS A7N8X board.

Did I say, I like Delta fans?

Used the same principle at the start. However the switch to watercooling via AIO was also bound to the wife-acceptance-factor. This way I can work on it in the living room, not only in my lab 😁

Man, this thread is giving me the itch...

I have had an NF7-S 2.0 with an overclocked 1700+ Tbred B for 23 years and I haven't really pushed it beyond 2Ghz in years just to keep it cool, quiet and consistent. I had it running at around 2.1 for a while and I think the highest I pushed it was 2.2Ghz. I'd hate to kill the poor thing after all these years of reliable service... but I am curious as to how it stacks up.

Also, I got a working Radeon HD 3850 AGP a few years back and it would be cool to get some crazy benchmark numbers with that.

Aaaand... I came into possession of a huge pile of Socket A chips last year and I was amazed that it contained several that are very popular overclockers, including some mobile Bartons I believe.

If I can get some other projects out of the way, I will eventually have something to post here too. 😀

Yeah, the Barton score I have is end road for me. Will look onto hosting the 370 version of the Aiming For The Stars, seeing as there is none for that platform.

PcBytes wrote on Today, 09:33:

Yeah, the Barton score I have is end road for me. Will look onto hosting the 370 version of the Aiming For The Stars, seeing as there is none for that platform.

You have a lot more room for improvement. You GPU is holding you back.

zuldan wrote on Today, 09:37:

PcBytes wrote on Today, 09:33:

Yeah, the Barton score I have is end road for me. Will look onto hosting the 370 version of the Aiming For The Stars, seeing as there is none for that platform.

You have a lot more room for improvement. You GPU is holding you back.

A GPU overclock will squeeze some more points out, that's for sure.

zuldan wrote on Today, 09:37:

PcBytes wrote on Today, 09:33:

Yeah, the Barton score I have is end road for me. Will look onto hosting the 370 version of the Aiming For The Stars, seeing as there is none for that platform.

You have a lot more room for improvement. You GPU is holding you back.

The only CPU that I can get to up its FSB is superlocked, and the other ones I have don't clock enough to beat scores at all. The so-called unlocked Barton I was given with the board is absolutely refusing any FSB setting than 166 and 200, although I can confirm the multiplier does work downwards (surprisingly not upwards despite being a 0331 chip.)

On top of that the X850 score is the only time 3DMark cooperated - I could not get it to finish another run ever again, even after switching to 7800GS, instead it crashes around either mid-1st test or right after the 1st test finishes. The only case where 3dMark completes is the stock 3200+ setting offered from BIOS - anything past that and the crashes start.

tehsiggi wrote on Today, 09:47:

A GPU overclock will squeeze some more points out, that's for sure.

Attempted already, it refused to run past the stock 520MHz core/540MHz mem settings, and would produce artefacts within ATITool when tested at speeds greater than 520/540.

PcBytes wrote on Today, 09:47:

zuldan wrote on Today, 09:37:

PcBytes wrote on Today, 09:33:

Yeah, the Barton score I have is end road for me. Will look onto hosting the 370 version of the Aiming For The Stars, seeing as there is none for that platform.

You have a lot more room for improvement. You GPU is holding you back.

The only CPU that I can get to up its FSB is superlocked, and the other ones I have don't clock enough to beat scores at all. The so-called unlocked Barton I was given with the board is absolutely refusing any FSB setting than 166 and 200, although I can confirm the multiplier does work downwards (surprisingly not upwards despite being a 0331 chip.)

On top of that the X850 score is the only time 3DMark cooperated - I could not get it to finish another run ever again, even after switching to 7800GS, instead it crashes around either mid-1st test or right after the 1st test finishes. The only case where 3dMark completes is the stock 3200+ setting offered from BIOS - anything past that and the crashes start.

Bummer 🙁
I tried a 7600GS yesterday, which even refused to boot. Though the card itself works fine and the AGP clock is locked. Sometimes the combinations are just creating odd behaviors.

tehsiggi wrote on Today, 09:50:

PcBytes wrote on Today, 09:47:

zuldan wrote on Today, 09:37:

You have a lot more room for improvement. You GPU is holding you back.

The only CPU that I can get to up its FSB is superlocked, and the other ones I have don't clock enough to beat scores at all. The so-called unlocked Barton I was given with the board is absolutely refusing any FSB setting than 166 and 200, although I can confirm the multiplier does work downwards (surprisingly not upwards despite being a 0331 chip.)

On top of that the X850 score is the only time 3DMark cooperated - I could not get it to finish another run ever again, even after switching to 7800GS, instead it crashes around either mid-1st test or right after the 1st test finishes. The only case where 3dMark completes is the stock 3200+ setting offered from BIOS - anything past that and the crashes start.

Bummer 🙁
I tried a 7600GS yesterday, which even refused to boot. Though the card itself works fine and the AGP clock is locked. Sometimes the combinations are just creating odd behaviors.

Yeah. On top of that- T-Breds I tested (2400+, 2200+ and a few Semprons) would POST with 7x multi instead of the desired multiplier, and outside of that they were horribly unstable. I'm not sure if that's my cooler not being up to par or the chips hating any VCore past 2v (I had them run at 2.1v). Couldn't get any Palomino to run although I feel they wouldn't have fared any better than my 1333 Thunderbird anyways.