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[Modas]

We'll last night I put all my new hardware (motherboard, cpu, vid card, ram) into the computer and fired it up for the first time.

SWEET!!!!  I say to myself, no archy sparky, no smoke

Now, what the heck is the command to see the what devices are using what irq's/interrupts etc. I thought it was msinfo or something like that.  Can anyone enlighten me?

The other thing that I'm confused about is setting the chipset speed with the FSB and the clock multiplier.  Can someone PULL-EESE explain THAT to me?

Right now, I have an athalon 2500+ cpu, the FSB set at 200 and the multiplier at 18 which on boot gives me the correct chip.  If I increase the multiplier to 19 I get a 3100+.  If I increase to 20, I get a computer crash/garbage and I have to reset the CMOS by pulling jumpers.  Scared the Sh*T outta me the first time that happend.  How does the whole FSB/multiplier thing work?

I've got the epox 8rda+ board and since its showing the correct cpu, I have to image is set up correctly.  Are there any other settings in the setup that I need to be concerned with?  I steped thru each setting in the manual and I think I got it, but you never know.

I did do a quick AH test offline and am able to run 1280 x 1024 resolution with 6x AA and 2X AF and get 80 FPS with 100 Hz refresh rate on the monitor.  If I start cranking on the AF, the FPS drops pretty quick.  Is this good or bad?  Any other settings I should be messing with?

Probably will have more questions after tonight when I get home from work and start messing with it some more...  

Thanks for the help

[Eagler]

irq info in win98 is under control panel/ system/ hardware

[Pfunk]

The 8rda+ unlocks all the multipliers on the chip. So by changing the multiplier and leaving the FSB at 200 it will change the speed of the processor.  On My XP1700+ if I set 200FSB at 12 multiplier it clocks the processor at 200 X 12 = 2400mhz or 2.4Hgz. If you want your memory to run in sych in the BIOS settings you set memory to run at 100% of FSB.  Depending on the memory you can play with the timings in the BIOS you have to set the memory setting to Advanced and play with the timings. I have mine running at 5-2-2-2 with CAS being the last number (or 1st # I cant remember).  If you are trying  to overclock and the system locks up at boot or in Windows and you have not adjusted VCORE or VDIMM voltage you can up these in small increments to see if that makes it stable.  I would not recommend going over 1.8V for the core or over 2.99 for the VDIMM.  In order to test your overclocking to make sure it is stable you need to download Prime95 and let it run for 24hrs without any errors.  This is a "torture test" which runs the CPU at 100% and does a bunch of calculations.  IMO if you cannot run Prime95 without errors for 24hrs then you do not have a stable overclock.  If you bump up AA and AF to much you will cause the game to slowdown considerably, so just play with it and find a sweet spot where your FPS and image quality suit you.

[Pfunk]

Oh yeah you really dont need that SBLIVE card in there anymore as the Soundstorm audio that is on the NForce2 board is superior.  Sell the soundcard on ebay or to a friend and make some of the money you spent on one sweetass system back

[Modas]

Hey Pfunk -

Here we go again ...


Couple of questions....  

1.  With the way I have mine set up (200 fsb x 18) I get the xp2500 on the boot.  I'm not overclocking here am I?  At this point, I prefer not to overclock until I know a little more what I'm doing.  Should I be using a different FSB X mulitplier to get the correct CPU?  I've pretty much got everything on a "default" setting with the exeption of the memory as I changed that for the CAS of 3.0 (default was 2.5)

2.  Are you running the 6 channel audio?  The thing I didn't get was how to set the jumpers on the board to get the 6 channel.  The other thing was it looked like to use the 6 channel, you use all three plug-ins and as a result, loose the spot for the mic.  I'd like to get rid of the SB card to free up some resources, but definitely don't want to loose the mic for vox

Keep in mind, that I finally got this thing up and running about 1 am.  So I'm sure I'll think of other things and correct things as I work on it toight.  It ran AH and my demo of IL2 (at highest graphic settings ) at that point and I called it good.  Would you mind if I PM'd you with my BIOS setup for you to take a look at?  Any way to do a print screen of that?

I appreciate the help.  You can email me at modas@cutthroats.com if you don't want to post your address publically.  Thanks a ton!!!

[Pfunk]

1. In order to get 6 channel audio you have to order the SPDIF daughter card from EPOX, If I recall correctly it is $12 or something like that.  The board only comes with 2 speaker jacks and a mic plug as is.  What kind of speakers do you have? Are they digital? Do they have SPDIF or something similar?

2. Yeah if the BIOS is reading it as an XP2500+ then you have it set to stock settings, you really dont need to up the mulitiplier right away to overclock it, if you would like to do this I would suggest just upping the FSB in small increments.  Are you sure the multiplier is set at 18 and FSB at 200? b/c that would give you 3.6ghz which I dont think that processor is capable of, default multiplier should be 11 x 166 FSB which would give you the 1.83Ghz the processor is by default, so if you had 11x200 you would have 2.2 ghz which should be easy to obtain.

3. You should have your memory set at CAS 2.5, the lower the # the better, that is IF the memory can handle it.

4. If the system does lock up when you reset the BIOS via the jumper DO NOT TURN THE POWER ON WHILE ITS ON CLEAR CMOS MODE as this will fry the BIOS, just switch the jumper over to clear CMOS then switch it back to 133/166.

5.  I'll post my BIOS info gotta restart..

[Pfunk]

Ok here are my settings keep in mind this some of these settings are if your overclocking, IE AGP frequency which locks the AGP/PCI bus at 66mhz

Advanced Chipset

System Performance-Expert
CPU clock ratio 11
FSB 200
CPU Interface-Agressive
Mem Frequency-100%
TRAS 7
TRCD 2
TRP 2
Cas 2.0
FSB Spread Spectrum-Disabled
AGP "                       "-Disabled
AGP Aperature Size-256
AGP Frequency-66
AGP 8X Support-Enabled
CPU Thermal-50%
System BIOS Cacheable-Disabled
VId RAM "  "-Disabled

Power Settings
Power Bios 1.725V
AGP Volt 1.5V
DIMM Volt 2.90

[Modas]

Ok, here's what I got.

I did actually have 200 FSB x 18.0 on the BIOS...  wierd.  I've since changed it and this is my current...

System performance - optimal
cpu clock ratio - 9.5
fsb - 200
cpu interface - optimal
memory freq - auto
resulting freq - 200 mhz
memory tming - optimal
t(ras)  - 8
t(rcd) - 3
t(rp) - 3
CAS - 3.0
FSB spread - disabled
AGP spread - disabled
APG apt size - 128
AGP 8X - enabled
AGP fast write - enabled
CPU Thermal Throttling - 50%
System Bios Cachable - disable
Video Ram Cachable - enable

So, Whaddaya think?  I get 1900 Mhz with this, so i guess I have a slight overclock.  The memory has a CAS value of 3.0 so that's why I don't have that set to a lower number.  Another question is, doesn't this board support a 333 FSB?  If so, why can I only get 100, 133, 166, and 200 as my options

AND...  yes there's more...  I'm getting this weird graphic stutter in AH.  I'm getting 100 FPS, but about every second or so, I get a stop/start on the terrain.  Wasn't getting this last night so somewhere I've changed something that has messed it up.  Any ideas?

thanks for the help!!

[DAVENRINO]

The 166 option does give you a 333 FSB.  Option 200 is 400 FSB.  guys using the Asus Nforce getting huge overclocks fromm Barton 2500+

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 Just up the FSB to 200MHz, leave the multiplier at 11. Gives you 2200MHz, equivalent to a 3200+, for around $85


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  06-01-2003 10:51 AM          
 
 
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quote:
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Originally posted by prisen
Just up the FSB to 200MHz, leave the multiplier at 11. Gives you 2200MHz, equivalent to a 3200+, for around $85  
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Same here. I backed down to 2100MHz (3000+) after a few random reboots, but I've got another system that will do it without a problem.


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  06-02-2003 01:33 PM          
 
 
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My 2500+ is running just fine @ 11 x 202FSB = 2230Mhz

i.e. slightly over 3200+  



I've had it @ 11 x 205FSB but have clocked it back slightly for the summer. Might do it more if it gets really hot out.


P.S. this is on an A7N8X-DX rev 1.04 w/ 2 x 256Mb OCZ PC3500 RAM.

 
 
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[Pfunk]

1. DISABLE AGP fast writes, this should take care of the graphics stutter

2. Set AGP Aperature size to half of system memory if you have 512MB RAM set it at 256MB

3.  Also go ahead and try CAS 2.5 memory will usually run faster than it's stated, for instance my HyperX is only CAS 2.5 but runs at CAS 2 no problems