bungle, pizzaboy thanks for the input, sorry for delay in replying
i guess while delivering more Volts to the CPU is possible ( in BIOS and modding the MB ), it appears the effort to up the volts on the MB for the RAM is not as straightforward a change, i guess i need to look at fast but low voltage RAM - would TCCD chips be an option ? Geil One looks good but not sure if it also expects high volts to operate - need to check.I really would like some decent RAM because it looks like i have a decent X2 ...
So far i've Ran Prime95 for 2hours at 2.4 Ghz ... and thats using a crappy 512MB PC2700 from TwinMos - its accient stuff LOL, i also had a PC2700 stick from Corsairs in there but the PC wouldnt boot the OS when i started OCing, i think it did POST.
So FAR - CPU-Z reports Multiplier at 10 , FSB at 240 , RAM is running at 200MHz, 2.5 Cas 3 3 7 10 & 2T is forced in BIOS, i've had Prime95 running for 8hrs + with the FSB @ 220 , highest temps so far are 39c with prime95 running.... i'm new to A64 architecture but i think this isnt a bad overclock ( thats with the single 512 stick from twinmos )
pizzaboy , withregards to the Maxtor drive, i do have it on the SATA II port. my experience was......
installation of XP
installing XP on Maxtor using the SATA-II port - during the blue screen setup you must supply the drivers on a floppy, the first time the installer asked me for the driver it suceceeded and loaded the driver, but on the the 2nd request for the drivers from a floppy it fails( using same disk ) , go figure.
I switched the Maxtor over to a SATA port and XP installed fine, then i installed the SATA-II drivers in XP , switched the Maxtor over to the SATA-II port - All went well but AT stock speeds.
When i tried overclocking - XP wouldnt boot and the PC was very unstable - unfortunately at this stage i made a mistake , i changed two parameters , i lowered the PCI Express clock to 95 Mhz and i also removed the crappy Corsairs memory stick that i had , so i'm not sure which of these changes had the biggest impact , currently XP is booting on the Maxtor attached to the SATA II port and i'm running at 2.4 Ghz , albeit with 1 *512 MB of RAM.
phew rant over. if i can give you anymore insight on my maxtor experience
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