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Seems we all need to move to 98 I tried 2000 some days ago, but did not get higher score than XP.

Excellent score for the CPU clock you're running!

You make those 6.4 chips in the selling thread look too weak, lol.

That sounds interesting. Bring it on! Want to see what a true oldchool bencher can squeeze out of such system, I suck at both 3DMark99 and PCMark 2004.

Pure luck, I guess? Posted on a local forum that need slot A system with preferably T-Bird CPU and a guy responded I'm not able to clock it higher on this motherboard though and don't want to mess up with resistors for 10.5x multi. Want to keep it authentic.

Don't think I did anything special. It's just the CPU power and someone with better knowledge would get higher scores. This run is with default clocks on the card, but 185/210 got me about 10 points... Will change windows and try again next week. 44.03 driver seems to be the choice for XP with this system + benchmark combination. It's better than 66.93 and one older detonator driver I tried. Maybe omega could get it higher. If I manage to overclock the CPU higher, sure 10K is within reach.

Yes, I was extremely lucky to find that CPU and really cheap (classified as useless stuff). I got a whole PC for like 25 euro - this T-Bird, the board, some generic sdram, quantum hdd, psu, case, cd-rom, riva tnt2 32MB. Have no windows installed yet, but will try. Hopefully will work, otherwise it is just plain boring - set 10x110 and that's it. Isn't 2V and above pretty normal and "safe"? It is 18nm CPU and although not a socket it should be similar to s.A.

Also have the innovatek oc card, but it does not work on Asus K7V rev 1.03 and older according to the description. Guess what... my board is K7V 1.01. So it does not POST. The other problem is anything higher than 101 FSB in bios does not post. 110MHz with the jumpers works, but that's the maximum one can set.

I think it uses the same clockgen as KT7A, so max should be 183MHz.

Hope they will be good enough for you. All my 3 sticks are very good, especially the first 2 I bought at launch. Still my best Hypers to date and I have several SuperTalent 2200C8, 2000C8, Kingstons 2000C8, OCZ 2000C7, also had some Adata too, but sold long time ago.

Don't think this has anything to do with BCLK. Non-K CPUs seem to be able to do high bclk without a problem. It's more about the cache/uncore, I believe.

Yes, that's the usual price for GTX2. You can consider them rare and it's the highest Hypers bin ever. Binned for 1800 6-6-6 and 2250 8-8-8 1.65V Noone will sell you GTX2 for $20-30 per stick . I have 3 sticks and people even asked me on PM if I sell them... But I keep a pile of good Hypers for old-school benching

OMG, elmor dropped the bomb

Yes, however I have only M64's and one Ultra, so the latter is the obvious choice. I have Goldfinger's device for the CPU and will try without mods first, to see how far I can push it. And the Thunderbird has the built-in cache running at full speed, so I can't control that, right? It is basically socket A Thunderbird on slot A board.

wow, that's a great clock!

I've never touched slot A system, so don't be so sure Hope kotori-san will participate too. Plus it is all about fun Thanks for the multiplier info Scotty. Not sure what is possible with 1GHz T-Bird, but will try to find out. It is going to be limited by platform I guess, but maybe 1200-1300 (at > 2V vcore) is possible with water?

Guess what... found T-bird 1000MHz and Asus board. Will join soon I'm not familiar with this platform. Is 10x the max multi or is x10.5 possible? I see in the interactive ocinside guide, max selectable frequency (at 100FSB) is 1050MHz, so it should be available. Also found TNT2 Ultra (Guillemot Maxi Gamer Xentor 32) in my pile of hardware, so it seems I will be full set.

Awesome!

Awesome CPU. You still have some headroom left.

How I've missed that... If my neighbour don't get it, then count me in. I can also ship it to German address if shipping to Bulgaria is too high. Thanks.

Usual prices I see are $40-50 and up for a decent motherboard, plus shipping from USA is not an option, because it will be rather expensive in the end. Will try to find something cheap locally. I have the Innovatek OC card though, but no system to use it with Never played with slot A (I am too young) and that's why want to try. Some years ago I decided to collect AMDs only and stay away from Intel, because if I start to buy old Intels as well, then I don't see where I could store all this stuff. And ofcourse I have so many things that need to actually bench some day, adding Intel to that would mean chances to bench everything will get even smaller. But... maybe I could get at least s.478 to try, should be possible to find something really cheap. However, the trend is that old and valuable stuff gets harder and harder to find nowadays with prices going higher. If you want the best motherboards from those old sockets and if you actually find one, they are usually not so cheap as they were like 2-3 years ago. Even socket A/462 is getting much harder to source, part of the problem being many CPUs went to gold-diggers Same applies to older CPUs on other sockets.

I want to participate as well, but don't have most of the hardware required. Looking for slot A combo from quite long time, but can't find anything cheap. Will definitely see if I have time for socket A though.

It does not need to be black screen. Sometimes it is stuck just before the butterfly lands and still shows a score, but it is inflated as in your case.

Pure gold! Will be interesting to see if anyone else can get closer to this any time soon. But 6G seems to be godlike for these cpus at least for the moment. BTW, X chips seem to be bad, at least mine and one more I've seen.

Asrock has no options for multi at all, so I have no idea then (and multi does not work in OS ofcourse). Not sure if a stupid idea, but you may try to save a profile with your K cpu, then load it or direct-boot with i3 at same settings. I'm sure someone will tell how... I will test myself when get back home. Gene has no exposed slow-mode switch, but you can make one based on the tweaking guide. It has always been like that on Gene, or at least ones I had (last 3 generations).