XP1800 unlocking

[wildfire]

Help i have tried to unlock the multiplier on the cpu by connecting the L1 bridges but nomatter what you set the bios to the cpu stays locked at 11.5. It will run at 144X11.5 1656Mhz no problem just a wee bit hot at 60deg any ideas anyone here is the full spec.

Asus A7V266-E
AMD XP1800 Thermo Engine V60 cooler
Crucial 256MB DDR PC2100 X2
Asus V8200 T5 Geforce 3 Ti500 Deluxe
Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum
Adaptec 39160 Dual Channel SCSI
Seagate 36Gig U160 @10000Rpm X2
Seagate 18Gig U160 @10000Rpm X2
10/100-network card
US Robotics 56k Modem
Panasonic 16X DVD Multi Region
Asus i-Panel Deluxe
Enermax EG465P-VE 431W ATX Power Supply
Lian-Li PC60 case
Win2000 SP2

[Shinobi]

Dude that CPU is about 10 degrees too hot!! Crank it down or you risk seriously shortening its lifespan!

Whatever ya done, you aint done it right bro. XP's aint too hard to unlock but you have to be very precise and take yer time.

[The Pimp]

If the temps are the ones given by Asus's own monitoring system (i.e. I-Panel, onboard sensors or Asus-Probe) then these are notorious for displaying temperatures higher than what the true temps are, by anything upto 15 Celcius higher!!!!

Also you are overclocking and at 144Mhz your CPU will generate a fair bit more heat than what it would at 133 or 100Mhz. As you have 10k SCSI HDD's , I hope that you have a very good case cooling configuration as the case temperature can make a difference to the CPU operating temp & 10K SCSI HDD's are known to be hot runners.

[HomHomHom]

to find out the real temperature...

stick your finger at the bottom edge of the heatsink and remember: 1 SEcond - SEventy degrees.... (60deg it is about 2 - left the fan off mine and learnt my temperatures the hard way - ouch!

[Graeme*Kustom*]

lol, I know it by smell now - a CPU just gets to the stage where it 'smells' warm :)

[Psycho]

Your CPU should work fine at that temp, my friends all run Athlons at around 50-60 C and havent killed their machines yet :-)

I have 4 SCSI IBM hard drives (2x 7200 & 2x 10k rpm) Ge-force 2 Ultra 64mb AGP and am runing a 1.33Ghz Athlon TB @ 1500 (10x150FSB) & 512 MB Crucial PC2100 DDR RAM on an Asus A7A266 DDR motherboard.

My case in a Lian Li PC60 with 2x 80mm Delta's for intake from the front, 80mm Delta exhausting at the rear, and a standard 80mm exhausting in the top center of the case. I also have a YStech 120mm intake fan cooling my cards from the side.

On the CPU I have a copper shim + Arctic Silver compound coupled to a Thermo-Engine heatsink & 60mm Delta fan.

Ambient temp is usually 20 d/C and after an hour of Quake3 my motherboard registers 25d/C and CPU registers 40d/C. My case sounds like a hoover, but it keeps everything cool and I never suffer from instability or random crashes.

My friends all run 1GHz - 1.2GHz Athlon's and regularly hit temps of 50 - 60 d/C without problems, so I think things have become a little over-rated in the heat=imminent death stakes.

[chris ladbrook]

vapochill here -20 :D

[The Pimp]

Originally posted by chris ladbrook
vapochill here -20 :D

Didn't know they fit in TIME cases???? ;)

[chris ladbrook]

i have 2 pcs :P a nice TIME ;) and a vapo custom


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