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"First Overclock"

Just did my first over clock. Had this new PC for 3 months nearly and thought I may try and do an over clock. As its a Abit NF7-S its not that hard to over clock as you just select the settings. As I own DDR400 RAM and wanted to keep the RAM in sync with the CPU FSB I decided to raise the CPU's FSB to 200 from 166. As the frequency is alot higher I turned the multiplier down from 12.5 to 10.5. With this setting the CPU runs at just over 2.1 ghz when the old settings were at 2.08 ghz. But as the PC now runs at 400mhz FSB instead of 333mhz it should run faster. I will leave it like this for a bit to see whether the temperatures increase alot more or whether the PC is unstable.

http://www.buildyourown.org.uk/

The heatsink is a Thermalright AX-7.

The fan is some 120mm aluminium jobby I found at kustompcs.co.uk.

Turbonutter wrote:
> I have one of the super-chips, but I can't even go near its full
> potential with this motherboard. A new one is on the list. This is my
> cooling:
>
> http://www.sine-wave.net/stuff/heatsink/

What heatsink and fan is that?

Turbonutter wrote:
> Eh of course they're driven by magnets, what other forces could they
> use? :-)

Yeah :). Just me being dumb and not thinking. Its just the way that they advertise the TMD fans. Even made motors in Physics so should have thought that every motor is a magnet really. Brains going soft, at least I will be back at Uni in 2 weeks to get my brain in gear rather than wasting the days on the PC, watching TV and films, and playing games.

Eh of course they're driven by magnets, what other forces could they use? :-)

Turbonutter wrote:
> What like those other type of fans that aren't driven by magnets :-D
>
> TMD stands for tip magnetic drive, it's the same principle as your
> standard DC fan motor but instead the drive is implemented on the
> outside of the fan, reducing the dead spot effect.

Yeah thats what I meant :) . I didnt know normal fans were driven by magnets. Suppose a motor is a magnet if I can remember when I was doing A-Level physics over 2 years ago.

What like those other type of fans that aren't driven by magnets :-D

TMD stands for tip magnetic drive, it's the same principle as your standard DC fan motor but instead the drive is implemented on the outside of the fan, reducing the dead spot effect.

Thats a big heatsink. I have the Vantec Aeroflow. Quite cheap for the performance. Its a mix of copper core and aliminium outer shell. Also has a TMD fan which has no centre motor but is driven by magnets.

I have one of the super-chips, but I can't even go near its full potential with this motherboard. A new one is on the list. This is my cooling:

http://www.sine-wave.net/stuff/heatsink/

Plus direct external air supply = win :)

Turbonutter wrote:
> XP1700 (stock 133*11 = 1463mhz) up to 2125mhz (170*12.5).
>
> RAM is Crucial PC2100 (266mhz) obviously at 340mhz.

A nice overclock then. What sort of cooling system do you have? I also heard that a batch of XP1700 were amazing overclockers with some people gettings steady 2.4 Ghz out of them.