O/Cing a Polomino XP1600-1800+... any chance?

[Ruahrc]

I have an ordinary TBird 1.33GHZ cpu right now in my Asus A7V133. I would like to purchase an upgrade CPU to get better performance in FS9, but I have had a very hard time finding Palomino core XP2100+ CPUs. Ebay has a couple but the buy it now price is $89! Yikes

My board will not take TBred cores so I am stuck with the Palominos. 2100+ is the highest it will accept, even with the latest BIOS and whatnot installed (which I have already done)

I have seen XP1600, 1800, and 1900+ floating around for sale, I was wondering if I bought one of these what are the chances I can just configure the mobo to run it like a 2100+ (133MHz * 13x)? Cooling shouldn't be a problem as I have a watercooled PC which right now is cooling my 1.333 just fine (and the 1.333 is one hot CPU I think it was 79W heat dissipation?)

Do the multipliers on Palomino's come locked? I don't think I can o/c my FSB as my memory is the generic brand and it will not handle even a CL2 timing. Any overclock from the default settings will cause my RAM to become unstable and won't load windows properly.

Thanks for any help, I am just looking to cheaply increase my performance as my CPU is a bit weak to run FS9 (Flight simulator 2004). Naturally I'm looking to do this as cheaply as possible, and I think that buying a new mobo/CPU might end up too expensive in the long run (Since any new mobo takes DDR which means I'd have to go out and buy new DDR RAM because I just have PC133 right now).

Ruahrc

[wju425]

www.a7vtroubleshooting.com

This is the site to find out just what you can use on your mob depending on what your revision number is. I have an asus a7v133c mobo (rev 1.05.) and from the site I found out I can run a tbred on mine which I have now an xp1700 tbred A running at xp2000 speed.

\o/ Billy

[Ruahrc]

yeah I looked at that site after the Tbred 2100+ I got off of newegg wouldn't POST. Turns out I have rev 1.05 (no dot) and thus I can't run TBreds, which is why I'm looking for a Palomino core 2100+.

Ruahrc

[wju425]

I see. That mobo will run palominos only if you used jumpers instead of bios. Did you try the tbred with jumpers? It'll only go up to xp2000 with it though.

\o/ Billy

[Ruahrc]

Yeah I tried jumpers and verything with the Tbred. At one point I could get it to post but it was running slowly (1000MHz I think?) and would automatically reboot before it would completely load windows.

Boy was I relieved to find out it was an imcompatibility and not a dead CPU or fried mobo though!

Ruahrc

[wju425]

This is a common situation where it'll only run with a 100 fsb. I saw an xp1900 palomino on newegg. You might want to check it out.

\o/ Billy

[Ruahrc]

Yeah I was thinking about itIf I got that 1900 on newegg though, do you think I'd be able to overclock it to 2100+ speeds, or is that something that's not necessarily guaranteed? I guess it's not too big a deal but I'd like to have that extra couple hundred MHz

Ruahrc

[wju425]

If you know how to modify the bridges you can but I don't think it's worth the trouble as you may ruin the cpu. I would post a request in the trader's forum (here in TechIMO) and see if they got one for you. I had an xp1700 palo but gave it to a friend when I got the tbred. Palominos are getting pretty scarce so you'd better act pretty quick if you want to keep your mobo. I'm already at the end of upgrade for my mobo myself.

\o/ Billy

[Juan Sanchez]

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...03-317&depa=1.

There's a Pally for ya buddy. You can thank me later

[Juan Sanchez]

Or how about a Duron 1.8. I'm gonna build one as a Bench machine (with the stuff I have laying around-Radeon 9500 Pro, Chaintech nForce 2 Mobo, Compaq Case, 52XCD-rom, floppy, and 512mb pc 2700) Durons a decent chip.