New Toys In!

[Yo_Mama]

Got my XP1700+ running on the Soltek SL-75DRV2 with no probs. This thing is sweeeeetttt! It's so fast, that it'll even crunch while I'm playing MOHAA. I guess that means it has cycles to spare while waiting for my pokey GF3 Ti200 to do it's thing. ;) I haven't even tried to o'c it yet (gasp).

I bought a 1.2 duron to replace my 650 on a Gigabyte GA-I7XE4. But when I replaced the chip, I turned off the machine, but didn't unplug it. AARRRRRGGHHH! Dang ATX! So I got a dead mobo, and am currently using the A7V I'm supposed to be selling. According to FedEx, the ECS K7S5A I bought to replace the gigabyte hit town this morning. With any luck, they'll deliver it this afternoon.

[Azzuron]

:o

[siggy]

Very nice Yo_Mama, :hugz: my computer room already sounds like a server room, I wont be adding anything soon, till I can start moving some of this stuff out.

[zhotfire]

Argh... you have my sympathy. :(
The K7S5A is an interesting board.. fastest bios boot i've ever seem on a non-scsi system. The chipset could use a fan thou... it gets quite warm! :eek: :)

[Yo_Mama]

I was reading Ben's review of the Soyo Dragon + and he compared it against the ECS. It beat the Soyo in a fair number of the tests. Not a bad showing for a $50 mobo. I'm going to try to run this Duron 1.2 at a 112mhz bus just for grinz, that's about all the o'cing the ECS will do.

[MikeTimbers]

ECS K7S5A running Xp1500 at 10x150
ECS K7S5A running Xp1500 at 11x138


There are a number of ways to overclock the K7S5A but the options are limited, I agree.

BTW, if your chipset heatsink is warm, remove it and replace the double-sided tape with some proper silicon compound putting some super-glue in the corners to hold it on.

There has also been talk about how the chipset heatsink only gets warm if the PSU is providing unstable voltages. On both my boards powered by Enermax 350W, my heatsinks barely get warm, certainly not hot.

[Yo_Mama]

I got that FSB proggie for the K7S5A last night. Bumped the FSB up to 110, it didn't even up the CPU temp any. Now I'm tempted to find that OC BIOS and take it past the next step. Seems this newer core Duron is capable of much higher bus speeds than the last.

[MikeTimbers]

The OC BIOS won't give you any FSB that the CHFSB or CPUFSB or CPUCOOL give you, just the ability to have it set from the hardware at boot.

My OC BIOS gives 100/112/124/133/138/150/166 although no-one has ever got their machine running at 166 stably.

[zhotfire]

Originally posted by MikeTimbers

There has also been talk about how the chipset heatsink only gets warm if the PSU is providing unstable voltages.
Hmmm... i am using a cheapo 250w psu... but this machine is only a temp cruncher until i get my dually... then it'll be sold.

[Yo_Mama]

True, but I read you can't make the jump from 110 to 112 and up in the Soft FSB's due to the change in the AGP multiplier. So I would boot to 112 and go up from there, presumably until you hit the next agp change.

Originally posted by MikeTimbers
The OC BIOS won't give you any FSB that the CHFSB or CPUFSB or CPUCOOL give you, just the ability to have it set from the hardware at boot.

My OC BIOS gives 100/112/124/133/138/150/166 although no-one has ever got their machine running at 166 stably.