Look At This Soup Up

[Megadeth2]

Ok, first of all, I'd like to than everyone who helped me out yesterday with souping up my out-of-date rig. This rig is good enough to last until XP-64.

Anyways, that unlocked AMD Athlon XP 3000+ was tested in a friend's DFI Lanpart NFII Ultra-B and the base clock topped out at 233. The clock speed topped out at 2796/2800 MHz on a 12 multiplier. My firend was using PC3700. Boy, did I get lucky with that AMD Athlon XP.

AMD Athlon XP 3000+
DFI Lanparty NFII Ultra-B
eVGA GeForce FX5500
Fujitsu U320 36.6GB RAID 0
Fujitsu U320 36.6GB RAID 0
Thermaltake Volcano 12+
Mushkin Dual Pack 1GB 2x512 DDR400
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound
LSI Logic U320 Controller
SkyHawk/EagleTech Case
Antec TruePower 450W PSU
Western Digital 80GB Caviar HDD
Maxtor 60GB HDD
Lite-On 8x DVD-RW
LG 52x CD-ROM Drive
CompUSA Floppy Drive

How is that looking for a good system? Oh, and the AMD Athlon XP 3000+ will be overclocked to 2796/2800 MHz, but with different memory clocks because of different memory and different memory overclocks.

 

[waynejkruse10]

Thats probly one of the best Athlon XP systems ive seen. It really has a great overclocking CPU, great mobo, dual channel options and fast HDD's. That computer would even be better than some of the Athlon 64 systems.

Wayne

 

[Megadeth2]

That is why I'm holding on to that system. I'm looking to put an eVGA GeForce 6600GT or a 6800GT (depending on the money I have of course) in there soon. Sorry, I didn't have a CPU-Z screenshot, but it was tested at my friend's house in his system. I haven't gotten the processor yet, but Prime95 has been running at 2.8 GHz for 18 hours so far. We want to burn it in before I actually complete the soup up.

 

[waynejkruse10]

sounds fun

 

[Megadeth2]

Who knew somewhat older hardware could be used to creat a beast?

Out of curiosity, what would this AXP be equal to in terms of an AMD Athlon 64 on stock?

 

[waynejkruse10]

That AXP system might be equal to something between a 3200 and 3500 socket 939, closer to the 3500 than 3200 though.

 

[bigdawgjts2663]

Yeah, I have an AMD 3400+ socket 939, performs great, but at only half the spped because it's potential is truely held back due to this 32-bit world of ours. As soon as 64-bit comes out, beware! ANyways, just something to think on....

 

[waynejkruse10]

Yeah, nobody really has seen the true potential of the 64bit cpus becuase there is no widespread 64bit operating systems.

 

[Megadeth2]

I like the speed rating in reference to the A64...

 

[waynejkruse10]

Linux has a 64bit distro though.