What is Fastest KT7A cpu

[Scrim]

Please could you help me work out how to get a worthwhile speed increase on my KT7A-RAID. It currently has an Athlon 1400 overclocked to 1600. To get this I have both voltages in the bios at max, which works fine with my homemade water-cooling system.

I've never found increasing the fsb works for me, perhaps because of my IBM HDD, so I always overclock by leaving the fsb at 133 and increasing the multiplier, having done the silver paint trick on the cpu.

I think my best step is to get an XP 2400 since this is the fastest available with a 133 fsb.

Will I be able to do a silver paint job on this chip and then increase the multiplier in the bios to get beyond its normal 2GHz?

(I've searched the news group archives with Google, but I'm still not clear if I can push the XP 2400 beyond 2GHz on the KT7A (version 1.2). I'd really like to avoid having to do mods to the motherboard. I have the latest A9 bios).

Cheers,

Scrim

 

[Wes Newell]

On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 16:52:33 +0100, Scrim wrote:

I think my best step is to get an XP 2400 since this is the fastest available with a 133 fsb.

Any Tbred B core will work. The 2400+ is only made with the B core. It, and the 2100+ (make sure it's a B core) will both work without mods to the default multiplier.

Will I be able to do a silver paint job on this chip and then increase the multiplier in the bios to get beyond its normal 2GHz?

You won't have to do anything to a 2100+ or 2400+ cpu other than plug it in.

(I've searched the news group archives with Google, but I'm still not clear if I can push the XP 2400 beyond 2GHz on the KT7A (version 1.2). I'd really like to avoid having to do mods to the motherboard. I have the latest A9 bios).

Either of the above cpu's will default to 2000Mhz when plugged in. You can change that higher or lower in the bios. See Multiplier Cross Ref. in link below.

 

[Spajky]

On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 16:52:33 +0100, "Scrim"
wrote:

Please could you help me work out how to get a worthwhile speed increase on my KT7A-RAID. It currently has an Athlon 1400 overclocked to 1600. To get this I have both voltages in the bios at max, which works fine with my homemade water-cooling system.

what about this?
http://www.madshrimps.be/?action=getarticle&articID=106 http://www.amdforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=259675

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[Scrim]

Thanks Wes, that's what I needed

Scrim

"Wes Newell" wrote:

On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 16:52:33 +0100, Scrim wrote:

I think my best step is to get an XP 2400 since this is the fastest
available with a 133 fsb.

Any Tbred B core will work. The 2400+ is only made with the B core. It, and the 2100+ (make sure it's a B core) will both work without mods to the default multiplier.

Will I be able to do a silver paint job on this chip and then increase the multiplier in the bios to get beyond its normal 2GHz?

You won't have to do anything to a 2100+ or 2400+ cpu other than plug it in.

(I've searched the news group archives with Google, but I'm still not clear if I can push the XP 2400 beyond 2GHz on the KT7A (version 1.2). I'd really like to avoid having to do mods to the motherboard. I have the latest A9
bios).

Either of the above cpu's will default to 2000Mhz when plugged in. You can change that higher or lower in the bios. See Multiplier Cross Ref. in link below.

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

 

[Scrim]

Thanks Spajky. I'll check that out. sounds like a good money saving overclockers dreaqm come true

Scrim

"Spajky" <Spajky##@volja.net> wrote:

On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 16:52:33 +0100, "Scrim"
wrote:

Please could you help me work out how to get a worthwhile speed increase on my KT7A-RAID. It currently has an Athlon 1400 overclocked to 1600. To get this I have both voltages in the bios at max, which works fine with my homemade water-cooling system.

what about this?
http://www.madshrimps.be/?action=getarticle&articID=106 http://www.amdforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=259675

-- Regards, SPAJKY
& visit site - http://www.spajky.vze.com
Celly-III OC-ed,"Tualatin on BX-Slot1-MoBo!"
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