Hi all,
My machine has started showing signs of age.
Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe
Athlon xp 3200 Barton
Zalman CNPS7000A CPU Cooler
Radeon 9800Pro
Audigy 2
2 * 512Mb Crucial PC3200 DDR
NEC ND-3520A DVD-RW
PlexWrite CD-RW 16/10/40
1 * 40Gb IBM Deskstar ATA-100 H/D
1 * Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 10 200Gb SATA 8mb Cache H/D
Enermax Noisetaker 485W PSU
Full tower case (can't remember name but iss bright blue)
Let me list the problems, one of the SATA ports only gives a transfer speed of about 48Mb/sec (according to HDtach), the other gives 111 (I can live with this)
I'm using some software called CPU-Z and the initial boot-up display to play with the fsb and multiplier.
The machine has become unstable (especially WoW) at 200MHz with 11 multiplier so I thought I'd "downgrade" a bit but am now confused.
If I give my various settings and speeds maybe someone could enlighten me in this complicated world.
BIOS setting____________CPU-Z reports
Mult_____FSB___________Mult____Mhz_____Core speed
10______200____________8______200_____1601
10.5_____200___________8_______200_____1603
11______200____________11_____200_____2205
Why can't I get a multiplier of 10.5 to work (giving 2100)?
Is it time to go 64Bit? But that would mean new m/b, cpu, (probably) graphics, (maybe) RAM ..... Can't really afford all of these at once.
My machine has started showing signs of age.
Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe
Athlon xp 3200 Barton
Zalman CNPS7000A CPU Cooler
Radeon 9800Pro
Audigy 2
2 * 512Mb Crucial PC3200 DDR
NEC ND-3520A DVD-RW
PlexWrite CD-RW 16/10/40
1 * 40Gb IBM Deskstar ATA-100 H/D
1 * Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 10 200Gb SATA 8mb Cache H/D
Enermax Noisetaker 485W PSU
Full tower case (can't remember name but iss bright blue)
Let me list the problems, one of the SATA ports only gives a transfer speed of about 48Mb/sec (according to HDtach), the other gives 111 (I can live with this)
I'm using some software called CPU-Z and the initial boot-up display to play with the fsb and multiplier.
The machine has become unstable (especially WoW) at 200MHz with 11 multiplier so I thought I'd "downgrade" a bit but am now confused.
If I give my various settings and speeds maybe someone could enlighten me in this complicated world.
BIOS setting____________CPU-Z reports
Mult_____FSB___________Mult____Mhz_____Core speed
10______200____________8______200_____1601
10.5_____200___________8_______200_____1603
11______200____________11_____200_____2205
Why can't I get a multiplier of 10.5 to work (giving 2100)?
Is it time to go 64Bit? But that would mean new m/b, cpu, (probably) graphics, (maybe) RAM ..... Can't really afford all of these at once.
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