[WTB][US] AOpen i975Xa-YDG

[TheMajorTechie]

Hello,

I've been messing around with a lower-end AOpen Socket M motherboard to see how far I can push Intel's final 32-bit P6 core (Core Duo T2700) under modern workloads. I've been searching high and low on the internet for an AOpen i975Xa-YDG motherboard so that I can push the chip even further than what's possible with the i945-based MoDT board I've been using so far. Most recently, I've been experimenting with whether or not it is still possible to play a handful of modern games that for some insane reason still support 32-bit OSes, with a special focus on Minecraft since an announcement from earlier this year "officially" drops support for 64-bit systems (it didn't).

I'm aware that there is a Taobao listing for the board, but it does not appear to ship to the US and I don't have a way to purchase it anyway even if it did. I'd like to see how much further I can get this old chip to go when removing the limitations of my current board, which can only push the FSB up to about 190MHz stable. The much wider possible range of FSB values combined with it being an enthusiast-grade chipset should hopefully bode well for future overclocking endeavors based on what I've seen from old reviewers pushing the lower-end T2400 chips past 3.0GHz.

[ogblaz]

Is this it? 

https://community.hwbot.org/topic/228294-fsinternational-i975xa-ydg/

[TheMajorTechie]

On 8/9/2024 at 1:55 PM, ogblaz said:

Is this it? 

https://community.hwbot.org/topic/228294-fsinternational-i975xa-ydg/

Yup! I've reached out to Zamin now and I'm waiting on a response. 👍

[Xevi]

Hi,

I have x6 motherboards, if I have time, I will check which one is 100% operational, if you are interested Almost all motherboards exceed 250FSB without difficulties, they use a BIOS compatible with Win10 x64

 

[TheMajorTechie]

On 8/12/2024 at 9:54 AM, Xevi said:

Hi,

I have x6 motherboards, if I have time, I will check which one is 100% operational, if you are interested Almost all motherboards exceed 250FSB without difficulties, they use a BIOS compatible with Win10 x64

 

Ooh, I'd certainly be interested!

[Pongi]

Xevi I'd love to know how you got your boards to run anything much past 200FSB.  I have one of these I bought eons ago and with it set to the 200FSB jumper setting it really loses stability around 210 ish.  I've tried a load of different CPUs (eg a T5500 with a low multi), different memory modules, different voltage settings, disabled onboard devices. disabled different features on the board.  Doesn't seem to matter.  Usually if i try to set anything above 220 in the BIOS it'll just ignore the change and stay at 200.  Firmware revision is the same as your boards.

[TASOS]

11 minutes ago, Pongi said:

Xevi I'd love to know how you got your boards to run anything much past 200FSB.  I have one of these I bought eons ago and with it set to the 200FSB jumper setting it really loses stability around 210 ish.  I've tried a load of different CPUs (eg a T5500 with a low multi), different memory modules, different voltage settings, disabled onboard devices. disabled different features on the board.  Doesn't seem to matter.  Usually if i try to set anything above 220 in the BIOS it'll just ignore the change and stay at 200.  Firmware revision is the same as your boards.

Maybe your board in not as good.
You should be doing 220-230fsb easy with aircooled cpu's.

 

[TASOS]

Try to boot at 200 and then set higher fsb from within the OS , using clockgen or the remote control (if you use winXP).

Then test again for stability.

[Zamin]

hello i have two board if you interested .