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    bhxtyrant which board do you exactly is it the a7n8x-x, a7n8x-e deluxe, a7n8x-deluxe, a7n8x? the bios I gave you was for the a7n8x I believe...just went to the download site and it was down for me.

    here is the windows flasher that fastgame was talking about. Since I trashed the other bios using the DOS utility I've been using the windows version.here is the newest one.
    http://www.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/flash/Asusupdt60301.zip

    now I would set your fsb to 166 and ram to optimal. and keep your multiplier at 12 and reboot see if it stays.166 x 12= 1992. that should be your standard setting for the 2400xp (pretty sure its clocked at 2000mhz.)
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    Yep according to the utility its up from 1996.00MHZ to 2004.53MHZ the board i have is the ASUS A7N8X.Sorry for the confusion i think i looked under the wrong board on the ASUS site when i posted before.I thought i had the A7N8X-X but i just checked again and its the A&N8X.

    So far everything seems to be working.I did have one problem.Fastgame said turn the "CPU External Frequency" to 200mhz when i tried the PC wouldnt start up so i had to put it back to 133 or 166.

    Now i have another question.The more i mess around here the more interested i become.Im really thinking about at least upgrading to 1gig of PC3200 ram and a newer CPU probally the XP 3200+ i wanted to ask is there any certain thing i should look out for to make sure the processor i purchass is "unlocked" so i can tweak its settings?
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    save your cash on the cpu and spend it on a gig stick of good memory. and overclock the crap out of it.
    now as far as the temp that is definately high. are you using a thermal pad or grease. I would never OC a cpu using the thermal pad get yourself some artic silver and apply that. also if you take your side panel off does the temp go down? If so then now we need to work on the airflow of your case.
    at min. you should have 1 80mm in the front blowing in and one in the back blowing out. then if your case has more slots I would recommend filling those bad boys up. Also getting round IDE and floppy cables will help with the air flow, along with cleaning up and tucking back any wires that you can manage. If you really want to go for it. I used round sheetmetal snips and cut a 120mm in the side and 1 in the top of my old case. the side one should be intake and top should be exhaust and that will push all the hot air from your PSU out of the case.



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    Quote Originally Posted by bhxtyrant
    Fastgame said turn the "CPU External Frequency" to 200mhz when i tried the PC wouldnt start up so i had to put it back to 133 or 166.
    If you raise your fsb to 200 gonna have to lower the cpu multipiler to 10. 200 x 100 = 2000mhz. or 166 x 12= 1992mhz. so I would raise the fsb to say 200 and your cpu to 8x and see if it boots. then just do baby steps til it crashes on boot or wont boot then just back it down. also you might want to raise your CAS timings on the memory to relax it a bit.

    Im really thinking about at least upgrading to 1gig of PC3200 ram and a newer CPU probally the XP 3200+ i wanted to ask is there any certain thing i should look out for to make sure the processor i purchass is "unlocked" so i can tweak its settings
    If you want a good cpu that is unlocked then I think Fastgame would agree on the 2600XP mobile CPU.

    and 1 gig of midgrade good memory go for the Geil Ultra Series Value Dual Channel 184 Pin 1GB(512MBx2) I posted this because its midgrade memory that will OC great. but if money is no option then ofcourse go all out like Mr. Fastgame does.



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    Yep according to the utility its up from 1996.00MHZ to 2004.53MHZ
    "CPU External Frequency" to 200mhz when i tried the PC wouldnt start up so i had to put it back to 133 or 166.
    so i take it that you also set the CPU mutiplier to 12 x 166 when you did this ?

    Will that CPU run @ mutiplier 10 X 166 ?

    i wanted to ask is there any certain thing i should look out for to make sure the processor i purchass is "unlocked" so i can tweak its settings?
    Only CPU's you can buy that are unlocked are the Mobiles like phishhead linked to
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    Dont have alot of time to post right now so i'll just ask this and answer the questions in a little bit.

    As far as the Mobiles go will they fit into a regular socket A as well?May be a stupid question but im still learning

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    Yes go to phishheads link and read the 167 reviews

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    save your cash on the cpu and spend it on a gig stick of good memory. and overclock the crap out of it.
    now as far as the temp that is definately high. are you using a thermal pad or grease. I would never OC a cpu using the thermal pad get yourself some artic silver and apply that. also if you take your side panel off does the temp go down? If so then now we need to work on the airflow of your case.
    at min. you should have 1 80mm in the front blowing in and one in the back blowing out. then if your case has more slots I would recommend filling those bad boys up. Also getting round IDE and floppy cables will help with the air flow, along with cleaning up and tucking back any wires that you can manage. If you really want to go for it. I used round sheetmetal snips and cut a 120mm in the side and 1 in the top of my old case. the side one should be intake and top should be exhaust and that will push all the hot air from your PSU out of the case.
    I havent tried taking the side panel off as i had no need to go inside the case as of yet.

    The way my case is set up inside is very cleaned up.All wires possible are tucked away and i have two 80mm fans one front blowing out and one rear blowing in.Id like to add a third fan on the top blowing out but i have never modded a case before so ill have to be real carful doing that.I dont have a fan in the side window panel yet either not on this PC anyway.

    If you raise your fsb to 200 gonna have to lower the cpu multipiler to 10. 200 x 100 = 2000mhz. or 166 x 12= 1992mhz. so I would raise the fsb to say 200 and your cpu to 8x and see if it boots. then just do baby steps til it crashes on boot or wont boot then just back it down. also you might want to raise your CAS timings on the memory to relax it a bit.
    I will give that a try right now after i finish this post.As for raise the CAS timing it was originally set to 5 and FastGame said make it 3 should i change it back to 5?

    so i take it that you also set the CPU mutiplier to 12 x 166 when you did this ?

    Will that CPU run @ mutiplier 10 X 166 ?
    Nope it would run when i left it on 10x 166 when i tried that it made a weird beeping noise until i manually rebooted to get back in bios and change it.

    Man after viewing that site i want this case! http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...144-090&depa=1 lol I just love the look of it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bhxtyrant
    I will give that a try right now after i finish this post.As for raise the CAS timing it was originally set to 5 and FastGame said make it 3 should i change it back to 5?
    wait a minuite.......where did I say CAS 3 ??? also I never even heard of CAS 5 Ram.
    Quote Originally Posted by FastGame
    CAS# latency= 2.5
    RAS# to CAS# delay= 3
    RAS# precharge= 3
    cycle time= 11
    RAS to CAS isn't the same as *CAS*

    If your Rams original CAS was 5 then it must be some crummy Ram. Also thats not what you listed in your first post with your system specs.
    Quote Originally Posted by bhxtyrant
    Timings-
    Frequency- 133.1 mhz
    FSB Dram- 1:1
    CAS# latency- 2.5 clocks
    RAS# to CAS# delay- 3 clocks
    RAS# precharge- 3 clocks
    cycle time- 6 clocks
    One thing about OC'n, the numbers need to be straight

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    When I overlocked mine, I actually first found the sweet spot to be at 390 Mhz FSB or something like that. For RAM I actually have PC3500 (since it is certified to run at 433, 400 should be a piece of cake)
    I have the A7N8X Del V2. And did have some problems. I can't remember how I got the work.
    The first heatsink you posted is similar to the one I have (Aero Jet7 from Coolermaster)
    It is quite big. And it is not that great according to reviews. Kind of noisy, but when I overclocked it actually colled down the CPU very good

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    oops My mistake what i meant was origianly the setting for the RAM were set to auto.when i switched to manual setting they were all starting on 5 and i adjusted them to your suggestion

    Memory set to below

    CAS# latency= 2.5
    RAS# to CAS# delay= 3
    RAS# precharge= 3
    cycle time= 11
    Sorry for the confusion

    Also i have a quesstion once again.when i go to settings for the CPU Frequency Multiple= it looks like this.
    12.0x
    13.0x
    14.0x
    7.0x/15.0x
    7.5x
    8.0x/10.0x
    9.0x
    9.5x
    11.0x

    why is 7.0 and 15.0 the same option? same for 8.0/10.0
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    Quote Originally Posted by bhxtyrant
    Also i have a quesstion once again.when i go to settings for the CPU Frequency Multiple= it looks like this.
    12.0x
    13.0x
    14.0x
    7.0x/15.0x
    7.5x
    8.0x/10.0x
    9.0x
    9.5x
    11.0x

    why is 7.0 and 15.0 the same option? same for 8.0/10.0
    I have no clue, its been a long time since I had that board & I sure don't remember the setting being that. I have an ABIT Nforce2 and its not like that.

    You better wait till phish gets home, he can look in his bios and tell you, maybe your CPU is locked ???

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    I dont know it lets me change all the setting but when i try to set the settings to 10.0x/200mhz it wont boot however 12x/166mhz seems to work fine.eh hopefullt very soon i'll grab an AMD mobile 2600+ that you guys recommended and maybe that new case that i posted the link to

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    you can set the board to let you up by 1 Mhz increment. Try using values between 166 and 200. You have 34 Mhz there (a lot) that you can play with.
    I did have the same with my CPU. I never unlocked it, but it overclocked fine (Thoroughbred 2500+) and there were a couple of multipliers that were together. I believe the list is pretty much as you posted. I can check it up tonight when I go home

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    Quote Originally Posted by bhxtyrant
    Man after viewing that site i want this case! http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...144-090&depa=1 lol I just love the look of it.
    i just ordered it today cant wait till it gets here the one i have now is shit i took off the sidepanel drilled a few holes cut a whole in the top and mounted a hard drive on top of it lol dunno y but tya its in pretty bad shape...got the case for like 40 bucks off ebay go figue

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