any mods for a mx4000?

keef · 21 Jun 2006 at 20:18

just obtained a mx4000 from a part ex system, i was wandering if there is any mods i can do to play with the card? also what bios is best for these old beasts! i have a week before my new card gets here so i am gonna play with me wifes lame old celery d system! see if i can get it to play some games! on a side note will i get 4 gig out of a 2.8 celeron?? never played with intel! the cpu itself seems very lame @ about 20mins super pi 1m! lol! (only kidding!)

Raikiri · 21 Jun 2006 at 20:24

Volt mod the card and fit an old CPU cooler

See what motherboard that system has, if it is a cheap prebuilt you would be lucky to get 3.2ghz although 4 would be possible on a good board with a decent cooler.

keef · 21 Jun 2006 at 20:29

any links to the volt mod?? i will check the mobo and get back to you!

keef · 21 Jun 2006 at 20:34

the motherboard is a gigabyte 8s661 fxmp-rz any good?

keef · 22 Jun 2006 at 00:09

been playing for a bit now and have got my cpu to 3354, could run superpi 1m @ 3.5 but would not run 3dmark 01 at that speed!
the 1m time @ 3.5 was 1m11 secs! lol!
got the card to 350/450 i have not changed volts or anything.
both cores on the card will go higher but after that i lose points!
my current o/c for 2001 se is [email protected] gfx 350/452 scoring 4600! what do you all reckon my chances of hitting 5k are!

WJA96 · 22 Jun 2006 at 08:57

A 2.8GHz Celeron D should do 3.5GHz just by turning up the FSB to 167MHz, especially if you have PC3200 RAM.

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=38372

This one did a 52s SuperPi 1M time, but they're never going to be heavy duty processors - they are great for single threaded games and office applications though.

Many Intel 2.8GHz chips will clock significantly better than 3.5GHz, given the right RAM and the right motherboard

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http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=62588

As all these chips start off to be 3.8GHz P4 Extremes and are winnowed out by the QA processes, you eventually get ones that will fail a particular test. The Celerons all have defective L2 cache and the HT is disabled, but many will run VERY fast indeed.