XP1600 and VisionTek GTS-V

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Greetings. I just recently finished putting together a new Rig and Tweaking it (Win2kPro). It is an XP1600 on an MSI K7t Turbo2 with 384m PC133 Ram- One 256 stick of Kingston and One 128 of Samsung. The Vid Card is a VisionTek GTS-V. Current stock score with 3DMark01 (first edition) ran at default setting for this card is 3497- Not Bad! Here are my questions:

With the XP1600, would you recommend using the BIOS to overclock or the "cool" looking utility FuzzyLogic4 that came with the Mobo? When I have previously overclocked, since I am not going for monster overclocks, I have just adjusted the CPU multiplier in the BIOS. With this Mobo, I have the option to mess with the Multi and the FSB in the BIOS and then the Little Proggie allows me to do the same. Which do you think is better/safer/more reliable? Is there a dif? Lastly- has anyone here ever oc'ed a 1600 and what have they reached? It runs at 1400 right now.

The GTS-V: I want to oc this little puppy to GTS speeds- what should I shoot for? I am thinking 220/330... should I try to push this further?

COOLING: I am pretty pleased with the current cooling I have setup. The CPU has a Volcanoe 6cu+ on it and at full load the highest it has reached is 39c. I run UD 24/7, so this is pretty good IMO. I center cut the side panel of the CE case to put in a 80mm fan and have one 80mm fan as an exhaust (I always cut out the back ported fan spots as the little holes dont provide me with enough mental satisfaction for exhaust). I am only using the stock GPU fan and dont plan on Changing out.

Anyways- what are your thoughts? BIOS, FuzzyLogic and Target scores for the XP1600 using either the Multiplier or FSB or a combo of both? Safe Target Settings for GTS-V?

This is my Mobile and Secondary Gaming Rig for LAN Parties and Friends when they Visit that I have spoke of in other threads. I plan to eventually upgrade my main system to a Ti4400 (when prices drop) and bring the G3 Ti200 over to this one- in the mean time I want to get the most out of this little puppy... hehe.

Thanks all!
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Side note: I built this machine to replace a Morgan Duron 1.0 on an ECS K7VZM (Micro ATX) with a 32 meg VidCard... I passed that comp on to my younger brother. Even though this current machine is a nice little rig and is an UpGrade- I miss the DURON (boy did that thing overclock) and am experiencing seperation anxiety... LOL. That Duron Really gave a BANG for its buck and I am hoping to get the Same results from this XP, but have been told not to expect the same oc'ing results :(.

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I am impressed so far... I decided to just mess with the FSB (no hardware alterations needed) and have found out that 160 makes it bomb... hehe. Actually, I get memory errors at that speed. I have it running comfortably at 10.5 x 155 = 1628! The stock speed of this chip is 1400 (XP1600). It registers as an XP1900+ at boot up. The temp is still nice at 40c with UD running and doesnt spike when I benchmark. Not too shabby. I am going to start inching it up, 156, 157.. and see where it fails. Then I am going to play with the VidCard... although with the FSB tweaked, I may not have to do too much to it.

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BIG EDIT: Looks like I may have been a little optimistic- It ran through PCMark and SiSoft just fine w/ the above settings for the CPU tests. However, my memory failed when I tried to run through 3dMark01. I had to step it down to 147 (148 or higher, would fail) to successfully run all the way through its barage of tests. So after it completed at 147, I backed it down to 145 just to be safe. Still, 10.5 x 145 = 1522! It registers as an 1800+ at startup... I can live with that. @145, my 3dMark01 score went from what it was before (first post) to 3633... thats not too bad for a GTS-V. I am now going to load my VidCard tools and see how far it will go... BTW- running at 38/39c with UD going with this OC.

EDIT: I loaded the latest GeforceTweakUtility from MajorGeeks and changed the core and mem speeds to 200/300 and it increased my 3DMark01 score to 3871. I want to break 4000. I wasnt sure to whether to jump to 230/340 right away or not with the FSB OC... so I wanted a slight baseline to compare. At the above OC, there were not flickers or visual degredations. I am bored with sitting around now, so going to go do something. I plan to play with the VidCard settings tomorrow morning during coffee, so will post updates at that time.


(dont know if anyone is interested in all this, but I have seen a couple OC questions lately and decided to commentary my experience for others)

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I ran my 1600+ at a 149 bus speed..default voltage..on a Gigabyte GA-7DXR board for a long time (10 months) with no problems. When it was new..and with a voltage tweak..it would go a bit higher..
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