How fast is your cpu?

[Anonymous]

I run a 2.66P4 and my new baby the 3.0HT. Will adjusting my ram speed make a huge difference or will the bios just resort back to the normal speed? Running pc3200 now is there any need to adjust?

[Bionic_Redneck]

higher rams speed will increase performance but raising fsb up does more than increase memory bandwidth also increases hdd, agp, and cpu speeds. I don't know what divisor you have but I like to keep my pci bus to 37-38 mhz any higher and I lose my network card occationally and have had a hdd get corrupted once w/ bus speed 41mhz.

some other dc projects that are more favorable to intel cpus. distributed folding is decent with p4's and 17 or bust is suppose to be pretty good too. I think they now have a client that can use sse2 and another project that good is folding@home if you use the advmethod flag to use gromacs core it make p4's about equalto xp's what I mean is a p4 3ghz is on par with a xp 3000+ or even a little faster then they have been talking about having a new core for sse2 for awhile now

[Anonymous]

Abit AN7
Barton 2500+ @2.420Ghz (11X220Mhz @ 1.70v)
Corsair TWINX1024-3200LLPRO (440Mhz 2-3-3-6)
Vantec ION 400 PS
Vantec Aeroflow HSF
(lapped following this process http://www.overclockers.com/tips1015/)
Arctic Silver5
(applied per http://www.arcticsilver.com/arctic_s...structions.htm)
Windows XP Pro
(2) WD Raptor 36.7GB RAID 0 System Drive (onboard RAID)
(2) WD 200GB RAID 1 (Highpoint RocketRaid 1640)

[Anonymous]

Athalon XP 2000+ [1.67 ghz]
running on a asus a7n8x with nvidia chipset


whens a good time to upgrade to a faster cpu?
board will handle up to 3 ghz

[Bionic_Redneck]

now is a great time to upgrade. The newer 1800+'s are overclocking past 2.5 ghz not bad for a $50 cpu.

[Q]

sorry for being off topic
is it possible to oc'd this one?

[Bionic_Redneck]

yea you could. the older steppings don't overclock as well but I would guess 1.8 ghz wouldn't be to difficult but you may want to increase vcore a little if it gets unstable. I would recommend not going past 1.8v unless you have top of line cooling. The more you raise vcore the more heat cpu will produce.

They had a guy that posted some benchmarks of a xp 1800+ on another site (don't remember stepping) overclocked past 2.7 ghz. I would say thats definitely worth upgrading

[Anonymous]

AMD Athlon 1100Mhz running UBERO.

[em99010pepe]

AMD Athlon 1100 Mhz running UBERO.

[vaughan]

Welcome em99010pepe. Are you running Ubero in text mode? It is faster than GUI mode. Also IBM Java is quicker than Sun Java. However, as I discovered recently it is a whopping 161 Mb d/load cf to Sun's at 30-ish Mb for the SDK version.