Athlon XP 2000+ into KT7-R will go

I have been getting frustrated with my Athlon 700 in my KT7-R. It
overclocked to 800 but that was all, and the temp was hovering around 45.
I wanted to get an Athlon 1400 or Duron 1300 on the 200FSB, but as you will
all know they are hard to find. So I have put in an Athlon XP 2000+ 266FSB.
I'm running at 1200 on a 200FSB (this is not the KT7A) and it is running
fine, and has certainly speeded up the system. After a few days I will ramp
up speed to 1300 and then 1400. Temp is already 45 but it is a hot day here.

Richard

On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 14:05:29 +0100, Richard wrote:

> I have been getting frustrated with my Athlon 700 in my KT7-R. It
> overclocked to 800 but that was all, and the temp was hovering around 45.
> I wanted to get an Athlon 1400 or Duron 1300 on the 200FSB, but as you will
> all know they are hard to find. So I have put in an Athlon XP 2000+ 266FSB.
> I'm running at 1200 on a 200FSB (this is not the KT7A) and it is running
> fine, and has certainly speeded up the system. After a few days I will ramp
> up speed to 1300 and then 1400. Temp is already 45 but it is a hot day here.
>
What you can do with the 2000+ depends on which core it is and if it has a
locked multiplier. See link below for more info. If you have an older all
aluminum cpu cooler I'd consider replacing it with a newer hybrid al/cu
cooler. You don't have to spend a fortune for a decent one. An $8 TR2-M1
will do a very good job and is quiet.

--
Abit KT7-Raid (KT133) Tbred B core CPU @2400MHz (24x100FSB)
http://mysite.verizon.net/res0exft/cpu.htm

On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 15:47:15 GMT, Wes Newell
<> wrote:

>On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 14:05:29 +0100, Richard wrote:

>> I have been getting frustrated with my Athlon 700 in my KT7-R. It
>> overclocked to 800 but that was all, and the temp was hovering around 45.
>> I wanted to get an Athlon 1400 or Duron 1300 on the 200FSB, but as you will
>> all know they are hard to find. So I have put in an Athlon XP 2000+ 266FSB.
>> I'm running at 1200 on a 200FSB (this is not the KT7A) and it is running
>> fine, and has certainly speeded up the system. After a few days I will ramp
>> up speed to 1300 and then 1400. Temp is already 45 but it is a hot day here.

>What you can do with the 2000+ depends on which core it is and if it has a
>locked multiplier. See link below for more info. If you have an older all
>aluminum cpu cooler I'd consider replacing it with a newer hybrid al/cu
>cooler. You don't have to spend a fortune for a decent one. An $8 TR2-M1
>will do a very good job and is quiet.

Get CPUID from :
http://www.h-oda.com/

Tell us what it says about your CPU, and read Wes's Site !
You may be one lucky lad if you have a TBredB

BoroLad

Cheers guys - that software is really neat. I now have the machine booted
and stable at 1300 nominal clock speed, though BIOS says 12.5+, whatever
that means. At 1400 it would not even post.
Windows CPU Clock shows that it is running at 1250.03, so that figures.
Windows CPU ID shows that it is a Athlon XP Model 8, Family 6/7, Model 8/8,
Stepping 0/0, running at 12.5x100, so again that figures. How do I identify
whether it is a Thoroughbred core or other?


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news:...
> On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 15:47:15 GMT, Wes Newell
> <> wrote:
>
> >On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 14:05:29 +0100, Richard wrote:
>
> >> I have been getting frustrated with my Athlon 700 in my KT7-R. It
> >> overclocked to 800 but that was all, and the temp was hovering around
45.
> >> I wanted to get an Athlon 1400 or Duron 1300 on the 200FSB, but as you
will
> >> all know they are hard to find. So I have put in an Athlon XP 2000+
266FSB.
> >> I'm running at 1200 on a 200FSB (this is not the KT7A) and it is
running
> >> fine, and has certainly speeded up the system. After a few days I will
ramp
> >> up speed to 1300 and then 1400. Temp is already 45 but it is a hot day
here.
>
> >What you can do with the 2000+ depends on which core it is and if it has
a
> >locked multiplier. See link below for more info. If you have an older all
> >aluminum cpu cooler I'd consider replacing it with a newer hybrid al/cu
> >cooler. You don't have to spend a fortune for a decent one. An $8 TR2-M1
> >will do a very good job and is quiet.
>
> Get CPUID from :
> http://www.h-oda.com/
>
> Tell us what it says about your CPU, and read Wes's Site !
> You may be one lucky lad if you have a TBredB
>
> BoroLad

On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 21:12:02 +0100, Richard wrote:

> Cheers guys - that software is really neat. I now have the machine booted
> and stable at 1300 nominal clock speed, though BIOS says 12.5+, whatever
> that means. At 1400 it would not even post.
> Windows CPU Clock shows that it is running at 1250.03, so that figures.
> Windows CPU ID shows that it is a Athlon XP Model 8, Family 6/7, Model 8/8,
> Stepping 0/0, running at 12.5x100, so again that figures. How do I identify
> whether it is a Thoroughbred core or other?
>
The 0 stepping indicates a Tbred A core, sorry. B core is 1. So, you are
problem limited to about 1800MHz. Try changing multiplier to something
else and see if it works and verify that you don't have a locked cpu. Were
any A cores locked? Anyway, if it's not locked, then you can change the
multplier to whatever you want up to 24x. But don't go too high or it
won't boot. 16 or 17 sounds good to me. If you change it on the cpu using
thre L3 bridges, you'll need to lock it by opening the L1 bridges. Best
bet would probably be to use the pin mod.

http://www.ocinside.de/go_e.html?/ht...md_pinmod.html

--
Abit KT7-Raid (KT133) Tbred B core CPU @2400MHz (24x100FSB)
http://mysite.verizon.net/res0exft/cpu.htm

I know it's wimping out and not playing the game properly, but I think I
will draw the line at opening bridges. I am fairly happy with 1250Mhz, and I
think most of the performance is now limited by the 256Mb RAM (I have to get
back the matched PC133 CL2 that I loaned out 6 months ago), and most of all
by the HDD which I bought as a cheapest possible after the second disk from
my original striped RAID array died.
At the moment I'm spending all my spare cash on my lovely Alfa Romeo, but in
good time I will buy a new Abit MB and SATA RAID striped array.

Thanks for your help so far. Maybe I will get tempted to unlock the chip.
That site looks handy too.

All the best.


"Wes Newell" <> wrote in message
newsan.2004.06.09.02.05.13.41078@TAKEOUTverizon. net...
> On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 21:12:02 +0100, Richard wrote:
>
> > Cheers guys - that software is really neat. I now have the machine
booted
> > and stable at 1300 nominal clock speed, though BIOS says 12.5+, whatever
> > that means. At 1400 it would not even post.
> > Windows CPU Clock shows that it is running at 1250.03, so that figures.
> > Windows CPU ID shows that it is a Athlon XP Model 8, Family 6/7, Model
8/8,
> > Stepping 0/0, running at 12.5x100, so again that figures. How do I
identify
> > whether it is a Thoroughbred core or other?
> >
> The 0 stepping indicates a Tbred A core, sorry. B core is 1. So, you are
> problem limited to about 1800MHz. Try changing multiplier to something
> else and see if it works and verify that you don't have a locked cpu. Were
> any A cores locked? Anyway, if it's not locked, then you can change the
> multplier to whatever you want up to 24x. But don't go too high or it
> won't boot. 16 or 17 sounds good to me. If you change it on the cpu using
> thre L3 bridges, you'll need to lock it by opening the L1 bridges. Best
> bet would probably be to use the pin mod.
>
> http://www.ocinside.de/go_e.html?/ht...md_pinmod.html
>
> --
> Abit KT7-Raid (KT133) Tbred B core CPU @2400MHz (24x100FSB)
> http://mysite.verizon.net/res0exft/cpu.htm