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24/05/00:
As many of you are aware, both the Abit KA7 and Asus
K7V motherboards are currently able to have their
BIOSs patched to give different cache dividers on the
Athlon at post......if anyone is using the patched KA7
BIOS could you mail over a link to us as we have had
alot of requests for this file and we can't find it
anywhere :) ,thanks.
Apparently a
overclocker in Santa Cruz has caused a space-time
continuum rift by pushing his Cumine to far LOL. Check
it out here.
Thanks to Pika for the URL.
There
is now a DOS cache adjusting program available. We
have not tested it out yet but it looks like it could
help all of those people who either can't quite boot
into Windows or do not own a KA7 or K7V board. The
files can be found here.
Thanks to Trevor Biggs for the info.
Maz
from our Spanish reseller Ngasis
has mailed us to say they have a FreeSpeed powered
Athlon 700 running at 1Ghz. Check out how they did it here.
(article in Spanish)
We now
have another Athlon 750 on the way from Austrailia
that has a 950 core. We will post more details as soon
as we can confirm this. Fluke
Frostytech
has written a article about lapping Athlon CPUs.
Here's a clip:
When we got our Athlon
550Mhz, the first thing we did was to rip off the
heatsink and take a look under the hood. Right off the
bat we noticed a few checks against good processor-to-heatsink
thermal transfer. Not good.
Ultimately four points
for improvement became obvious as we looked closer.
- Unflat processor
heatspreader plate
- Surplus amount of thermal
goo
- Raised heatsink
edges interfere with proper contact
- Stepped heatsink
design limits useful surface area for heat
transfer
You
can find the whole article here.
Thomas
Matthew
Witheiler over at Anandtech
has posted a 'howto' overclock your Geforce2 GTS card,
very interesting reading. Here is a clip:
It
is a common syndrome for computer users to always
crave more. No matter what comes out or how powerful
it is, one of the first things that many people do is
push the item to its limits in any way possible. You
may be satisfied with a new CPU for a few weeks or
even a month, but before too long the huge speed
initially associated with a new component has all but
disappeared. No longer do you focus on how long it
took your old computer to load Microsoft Word in
comparison to your new one, but rather you notice the
amount of time that the upgraded system takes to load
the same program. The only way to revive that upgraded
feeling, short of upgrading again, is to squeeze every
bit of power possible out of the existing system. In
addition, there are also a growing number of people
who simply want the fastest from the start. Rather
than wait for the new component wonder to ware off,
these users tweak the component to the highest degree
from the start, ensuring that their system is the
fastest possible. In the vast majority of cases, both
types of users employ the same method to achieve the
high speed goal: overclocking.
You
can find the whole article here.
Thomas
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