Got myself a Socket A XP1700 thoroughbread from the MM. More used to AMD64 systems, so there may be some errors in my techniques.....
Been putting the chip through its paces a little.
Not sure its working as well as it should be. Specs are as follows:
XP1700 + Akasa XP3200 cooler
Abit NF7-s (revision 1.0)
512MB DDR400 Corsair
NVidia FX5200 (passive cooler)
*cough* low quality 300W £7 psu *cough*
Wasn't planning on pushing it very far with this powersupply, but got carried away anyway.
I pushed the fsb up to 166 (333) and set the unlocked multi to 12 (cpu @ 2GHz). Ram is running 1:1 at 2-2-2-6 (DDR333)
Havent taken it further as I dare not.
I ran SuperPi on it --- Does that seem about right?
THe thing that is making me think something is wrong is a combination of very slow boot times running windows 2000, takes about 3-4 minutes to get to login screen on a base install (probs just the slow harddrive I guess....)
More so running UT2004 this rig really struggles, Running with medium settings in 800x600 its really stuttery... was expecting this rig to be able to run it fine.
Checking in task manager the processer is under 100% usage.....
My old-old rig, a Palimno 2100, would run UT2004 fine, albeit with a better graphics card (rest of spec identical), but also on much higher settings....
In short is there something wrong here???
If yes, is the power supply the suspect ? (planning on replacing it anyway)
Cheers
PinkFloyd
Been putting the chip through its paces a little.
Not sure its working as well as it should be. Specs are as follows:
XP1700 + Akasa XP3200 cooler
Abit NF7-s (revision 1.0)
512MB DDR400 Corsair
NVidia FX5200 (passive cooler)
*cough* low quality 300W £7 psu *cough*
Wasn't planning on pushing it very far with this powersupply, but got carried away anyway.
I pushed the fsb up to 166 (333) and set the unlocked multi to 12 (cpu @ 2GHz). Ram is running 1:1 at 2-2-2-6 (DDR333)
Havent taken it further as I dare not.
I ran SuperPi on it --- Does that seem about right?
THe thing that is making me think something is wrong is a combination of very slow boot times running windows 2000, takes about 3-4 minutes to get to login screen on a base install (probs just the slow harddrive I guess....)
More so running UT2004 this rig really struggles, Running with medium settings in 800x600 its really stuttery... was expecting this rig to be able to run it fine.
Checking in task manager the processer is under 100% usage.....
My old-old rig, a Palimno 2100, would run UT2004 fine, albeit with a better graphics card (rest of spec identical), but also on much higher settings....
In short is there something wrong here???
If yes, is the power supply the suspect ? (planning on replacing it anyway)
Cheers
PinkFloyd
