Is my A7V8X good enough?

olliestottleolliestottle
edited August 2003 in Hardware
So i have two 512 sticks of DDR pc3200 RAM. My mobo is an A7V8X Asus and i am currently running an AMD 1800+ around 1.47 Ghz. Anyway, i wanted to boost my cpu performence so im thinking about buying an AMD Athlon XP1700+ 1.47GHZ 384K 266 Tbred B (TRAY) (JIUHB:0302). My friends have OC there cpus to around 2.5 ghz and i wanted to know if my hardware is good enough?

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  • kanezfankanezfan sunny south florida Icrontian
    edited August 2003
    should be, i think what people love the most about the NF7 besides the insane OC'ing results is the dual channel controller, which your board does not have.
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited August 2003
    What revision is your mobo? If it is a rev 2 then you should be OK, otherwise you will need to do some tweeking. I would get a later stepping than what you have listed. Folks are doing real good with JIUHB 0310 (or newer) DLT3 chips. As kanezfan mentioned the NF7 rev 2's are squeezing a bit more out of all the chips.
  • JimboraeJimborae Newbury, Berks, UK New
    edited August 2003
    Hmm, I'd still go with the JIUHB:0302 rather than the 0310.

    I currently own an 0310 & 0312 and both will only do between 2g & 2.2g. My old 0302 would do 2.4g before I blew it up, still you may have trouble finding 0302 now.


    Regards


    Jim
  • olliestottleolliestottle
    edited August 2003
    i have a web site that sells that stepping and others to choose from. Tee hee. How would i figure out if it is revision 2 or not?
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited August 2003
    Originally posted by olliestottle
    i have a web site that sells that stepping and others to choose from. Tee hee. How would i figure out if it is revision 2 or not?
    The easiest way is to use CPUID. I have it layed out in this post and the next since I can only attach one file per post. After you open CPUID click the button indicated for chipset info.
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited August 2003
    Here is where to look. If it is a Rev 2 board it will say C1 and if it is a Rev 1.xx it will say C3.
  • leishi85leishi85 Grand Rapids, MI Icrontian
    edited August 2003
    WCPUID doesn't report my chipset stepping correctly, i have taken the heatsink off my 8rda+ NB, and it's an A3, but in WCPUID it says A2, and i am using the latest version of WCPUID from the offical site, so i would trust what it says in that program, and rather open my case and look.
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited August 2003
    Originally posted by leishi85
    WCPUID doesn't report my chipset stepping correctly, i have taken the heatsink off my 8rda+ NB, and it's an A3, but in WCPUID it says A2, and i am using the latest version of WCPUID from the offical site, so i would trust what it says in that program, and rather open my case and look.
    OK, this is kind of confusing but the NF2 Rev 2 has C1 on the nortbridge itself but reports C3 in CPUID and CPU-Z and the Rev 1.xx's are reported as C1 and C2. The other way to tell if you are looking at the chip itself is that the Rev 1.xx chips have a metal circle in the chip and the Rev 2's are a solid black square.
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