Advice needed on an overclock

[daveleau]

Hi everybody!

I just received my 2100+ today and installed it. It runs great. It is a T-Bred B, from the markings, which is what was advertised, so I am happy.

I can get this bugger to run at 147 fsb and 150 fsb, but the PCI shows up as running at 35.7 MHz and 30.0 MHz. The system runs fine with full load at sub-40C temperatures (Thermalright SLK-800 with 80mm Enermax fan).

Should I worry about my hard drives with these settings?

I have had so many drives fail in the past, that I really want to baby the drives. The drive is a Maxtor 60GB drive 7200rpm 8MB buffer.

My motherboard is a ECS K7S5A, and I have the CHEEPO BIOS installed. This at least allows me to OC, but I only have a few settings I can choose from.
Available settings (no voltage manipulation available):
133/133 135/135 137/137 143/143 147/147 150/150 166/166

I tried at 166/166 and the system won't boot. There have been documented problems with the 166/166 setting on this board, yet it has not been fixed yet.

System specs:
AMD Athlon XP 2100+ (T-Bred B)
ECS K7S5A (CHEEPO BIOS) onboard lan and sound
2 sticks Crucial PC2100 512MB (1024MB total)
Abit Siluro GeForce 4 Ti4200 64MB TV out with ITES cooling system (externally vented cooler)
Leadtek WinFast TV2000 XP tv card
Toshiba 16x DVD
Lite-On 16x burner
Maxtor 60GB 7200 rpm 8MB buffer
Maxtor 3.1 GB 5400rpm
Enermax 350W dual fan PSU
ThermalRight SLK-800(A?) w/ 80mm Enermax fan w/ manually altered speed control
5 80mm case fans
1 92mm case fan

ThankS!
Dave

[Codes]

If ya got the $$$ get a new board:

Good cooling- Good ram- good motherboard , make it that much easier.

I would suggest Epox 8RDA+ IMHO. But I'm a newb..

[dax_brandy]

hello dave,

sell your ECS and buy an Epox board wtih the VIA KT400 chipset. the AWARD BIOS allows you to modify FSB, multiplier, voltages of AGP, DRAM and CPU. plus VIA chipsets automatically recalculate AGP/PCI fsb if you set the FSB from 133 to 166. it's called the PCI divider.

very good setup.

good luck.

dax:)