So the new MP2100+ are released and that turned my MP2000s "obsolete" hehe, just not top of the line anymore
So took out my old and trusty Conner 420 (ten years old), installed W98SE as fast as the drive could write and soon I booted to W98SE, installed nothing but CPUFSB, picked my clock generator and upped the FSB from 133Mhz to 140Mhz.
To my luck, the TigerMP has the unique feature that the FSB setting from software tools like CPUFSB survive reboots. And so I rebooted to see the CPU's identified as Athlon 1733Mhz The bios of the TigerMP knows only MP1900's and XP2000 (eventhough they are MP chips). Anything higher is read by MHz. And eventhough the MP's from 1666Mhz now work at 1750Mhz (ok not really 66Mhz but you get the picture) it's reported as 1733Mhz because the BIOS knows the AMD speeed step algorithm.
Anyhow, what did I notice? Those 7Mhz of FSB, gave me a 20minute drop in seti times (from 4hrs 10min, down to 3:50 per CPU). Did I feel it otherwise? No, the GUI was not faster (how much faster can it go
) but all the CPU intensive tasks were imporved by more than 8% (the expected performance difference between the MP2000 and MP2100). Not bad!
So, there, a nice freebe overclock for a non-overclocking system
Linear Mode
