what FSB is "safe" on a K7V mobo wth a K700

[old.sjp]

subject says it all really .....

tech's, could u pls tell me what FSB i can expect my K700 (on an assus K7V mobo, PC133 memory) to run stably at (ie not locking up all the time )

i dont want to push it to far, so sugestions on what freq's i shoud try ?

also could u point me in the direction , or simply tell me ...., which other settings i should be changing in the bios ?

agp freq, voltage etc ?

ta in advance

 

[old.TUG]

I'll answer tomorrow when im

a) on 0800
b) awake

 

[old.sjp]

 

[old.TUG]

>>tech's, could u pls tell me what FSB i can expect my K700 (on an assus K7V mobo, PC133 memory) to run stably at (ie not locking up all the time )

people have said they can actually get their K7V's to operate fine @ 133MHz FSB... 7*133=931MHz - I doubt youe chip would go that high TBH... maybe 850MHz so that would be 121MHz FSB. You might need a bump in voltage and with me not messing with loadsa athlon systems I don't think the mobo can manipulate VCore... I may be wrong. You also need to understand that @ 121MHz FSB your PCI bus speed will be at 40MHz (standard = 33MHz) and your HD might not like it as well as other PCI cards and devices.

Only thing is to try various speeds and see where your chip maxes out. But remember that u could chuff up the data on your hard drive if you use an FSB that has a highly overclocked PCI bus... u might wanna see if anything is in your manual telling you what PCI bus speeds are in operation at a specific non-standard FSB

>>also could u point me in the direction , or simply tell me ...., which other settings i should be changing in the bios ?

Dunno... www.amdzone.com and similar AMD sites often have excellent forums with people who know these new athlon mobo's inside out - im still an Intel user on the whole

>>agp freq, voltage etc ?

well, you wanna use as close an AGP bus speed to 66MHz as possible and voltage wise, get good cooling if you wanna go above 1.7v. I personally wouldnt go higher than 1.9v

HTH!

 

[old.sjp]

Tis all pretty academic at the mo tbh, ive had a quick play , and the mem runs fine at CAS2, but me graphics card, an old ati-rage pro agp2x seams to lock up when freq > 105 , system still boots but no vid output.

Its crap i no, but i use me V2 sli's for gaming and tbh i paid a fortune for them so there gona last .... , ill take the plunge and get a nv15 when they arrive tho )
ill give it another go when i get the new card.

i no what u mean about the HDisk, i used to run me me old p2 333 @ a fsb of 75 (->375), but the hard disk wasent to stable (could live with it tho, just needed scaning regularly :\), hence the quest (and i did totally corupt it when i tried 83 )....

Anyways, I am happy enuff, even with this itsy-bitsy change ive gained an extra 7fps in quake3 (and ive still got a old card pumping out the pollys) - and it dident cost anything extra, so i cant grumble , also its very stable (iam pretty impressed actually, only bought intel before ...).


thanks for the reply btw, you are very helpfull (u seem to post a lot of replies to peeps like me), ta

 

[old.TUG]

Yea... older AGP cards are a bag of crap whrn it comes to overclocked AGP buses... and no offence, but ATI cards suck more than my sister does with her manky boyf's

NV15's, if anything like GeForces, will kick arse when it comes to an overclocker using a sick agp bus speed - geforces run on 100MHz AGP speeds without probs... notalot can touch that TBH, if you had an NV15 on just a 100MHz FSB system you could try knocking the 2/3 agp divider to 1/1 and get an instant upgrade!

Fujitsu, maxtor, seagate - all a bit crap with non standard PCI bus speeds derived from non-standard FSB's - some ppl cant even get to 105MHz FSB without having HD probs!!!

IBM is the way to go IMO Tis what I use nowadays.

Glad I was of some help. If ya got the knowledge, why not share it?! (That will be 10 quid plase )

I just have a general interest in overclocking, do a lot of reading, have a mess with me own system and hopefully will sonn have my own business concentrating on performance hardware/systems and OVERCLOCKING!! Top shit

 

[old.sjp]

funny u mention maxtor, thats what i have, and ive found it to be pretty unstable with non-standard fsb speeds, ive also had problems with quantum's as well.

ill give ibm a go next time

[This message has been edited by sjp (edited 20 April 2000).]