swifty11212 Posted January 15, 2007 Posted January 15, 2007 WoW, i mean wow. that rig must really be good, especially for a socket a to pull off a 8k-ish socre in 05? good job on that, and i wonder if you have time for a phase change run in the future hehe. i think you may be able to just push it even more, congrats and as for those headphones, they beat mines, im using some cheapo $20 philips since i got tired of using my ipod headphones for gaming and a bs microphone for TS and vent. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingdingeling Posted January 16, 2007 Posted January 16, 2007 if you push it, just make sure not to fry that! Would be a decent death for an OC wonder A-XP, but that thing has gotta be the best A-XP rig I have ever seen! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iggy Posted January 17, 2007 Posted January 17, 2007 (edited) Quick update, the chip is quite happy at 12.5x200 with 1.65v, although after that it seems to hit a substantial voltage wall. 13.5x200 is roughly stable with 1.9v, and I don't feel comfortable pushing any more voltage into the chip for 24/7 operation. The video card has issues in WoW with any significant overclocking, although Oblivion and ATITool both appear to be artifact free at 500 Mhz Core and 1400 Mhz memory. If I have time I may buckle down and do the vgpu and vdd mods for the 7800GS+, since it seems to be experiencing issues similar to other G71 based cards I've worked with (artifacting at stock speeds/insufficient vcore). Crucial was out of stock on the tracers, so I'm still waiting for some good ram before I can start increasing the fsb beyond 200. I did get to play around with a 2x512 Mb UTT Ballistix kit this weekend for about half and hour, and I was able to boot into windows at a 260 MHz fsb. Granted I won't experience the same sort of luck with a 2x1 Gb kit on NF2, but at least I know that the motherboard is capable of a high FSB without mods. Edited January 17, 2007 by Iggy Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
road-runner Posted January 17, 2007 Posted January 17, 2007 Do not blow it up! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iggy Posted January 23, 2007 Posted January 23, 2007 (edited) Ballistix arrived, current status: Â Â I think I can safely say that this system is one of the top ten fastest Socket A machines ever built. Edited January 23, 2007 by Iggy Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardnrg Posted January 23, 2007 Posted January 23, 2007 while it's a decent overclock, it's probably not one of the top ten... Â here are eight that are faster: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=59753 Â i think Fueler has his axp rig up near 3ghz, so that's 9 ... i've seen quite a few axp's at 2.6-2.7 on water... Â keep pushin it! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iggy Posted January 23, 2007 Posted January 23, 2007 I was thinking more along the lines of graphical performance rather than raw CPU speed---there are other AXP's which have surpassed this build in MHz, but none would survive Quake 4 on ultra quality or Oblivion at high(er) details. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iggy Posted January 23, 2007 Posted January 23, 2007 I was thinking more along the lines of graphical performance rather than raw CPU speed---there are other AXP's which have surpassed this build in MHz, but none would survive Quake 4 on ultra quality or Oblivion at high(er) details. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardnrg Posted January 23, 2007 Posted January 23, 2007 yup... if Futuremark's ORB is anything to go by, you're right Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crow47 Posted January 23, 2007 Posted January 23, 2007 (edited) Nice, where'd you get all the stuff? I'm glad somebody is embracing some older hardware. I know very well firsthand how difficult it can be on old hardware and I'm glad somebody is able to make something VERY useful out of it. Edited January 23, 2007 by Crow47 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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