[techtalk] Re: Upgrade options
- From: Andrew Davidson <andrew@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: techtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 23:45:46 +0000
Paul Ferguson wrote:
Mmm my son was thinking about a DFI board as part of an upgrade.
I always thought they were a bit flash with the UV paint and all that
but not that stable - I guess thats a thing of the past now then ?
It's as stable as the Asus nF3 I had for a few weeks. Unfortunately,
the Asus only provides a maximum of 2.7v on the RAM slots, and my old
Mushkin RAM really needs 2.8v to run at it's 2-5-2-2 timings. At 2.7v I
was way back at something mad like 11-15-11-10 or something.
The DFI can put out up to 3.5v on the DIMMs which is probably a little
excessive. :)
Quite a bit quicker than the P4 it replaced, and I havn't even had a
chance to overclock yet. :)
So the DFI is a good overclocker ?
I've not had time to try, but I've heard good things. There are
certainly more than a fair share of tweaks available. 2 pages of BIOS
scrren devoted to memory and CPU timings, most of which I havn't a clue
about. :)
A friend of mine had a Lanparty nF2 board which was pulling 2.6GHz from
a Barton 2500+ using water cooling. Bus speed was something above
230MHz which is pretty good for a nF2.
Then again, my old i865PE based Epox was good to 250MHz FSB (1GHz FSB). :)
Andrew
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