Air Cooling and the 1G AXIA 266 and 1.2G AXIA 266 T-bird with the Fob-38

[Colt]

Alrighty, Done with the mod, It will impress you guys. Anyway fired it up Saturday, Have some interesting findings to report.
First Specs
Abit KT7a
256MB PC160 OCz Ram 2-2-2
Two 20G Maxtor HD running RAID 0
Okay enough Specs.
Popped in the 1G chip first, Fired right up, Set up HDs, Installed windows without a hitch.
Cool Right, Wrong. Took out chip, unlocked bridges put it in, Set it to 8x133. No Boot, tryed everything, no boot, tried four different pencils, all different bios settings, Nothing. S**T.
So erased pencil put in chip, fired up no problem, tryed raising fsb, no boot, go fiqure. So left the comp on and layed down to contimplate the situation. Go back and I do not hear the high whirl of the fob, damn, fryed t-bird, thought to myself. Looked at temp guages, idling at 38C, with fob Idled at 30C, not to bad considering no fan, just heatsink. So I said to myself time to see if a heatsink could handle some stress. Fired a few benchmarks at it, played Rogue Spear for an hour, never rose past 48C, I was impressed.
So I killed my 120MM exhaust temp rose 3C killed 120MM intake, temp rose to 54C and comp locked. Rebooted, put intake full throttle and exhaust 3/4 throttle, temps went the same no problems.
Lesson in this fan thing, its all in the placement and what is in the way, not how many you have. The fans push about 96CFM
So got another fan on heatsink, poped in the 1.2G AXIA, Fired her up at 10.5x133. Ran stable no problems at 1400MHz. Did not want to go higher, saving that chip for water cooled pelts, made sure it was not motherboard.
Today went out and bought tracer repair pen, Silver Based. Took 1200 grit sandpaper and lightly roughed up the L1 Bridges of the 1G AXIA, put the tracer stuff on. Set bios at 9.5*133. Boom fired it up, boots right into windows, been stable for 4 Hours now at 1266MHz, Ya baby. Lesson here, four pencils no game, real metal and a slight buff, works like a charm.
Will be overclocking the 1G for laughs while building water system. This should be interesting. Thanks AMD for the fun.


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Knight of the loyal order to overclock the H... out of your chips.
http://www.nikeotronik.com/

750 Athlon Classic O\C to 1090MHz
Water cooled pelts
Abit KA7-100
256MB Micron Running at 133MHz cas 2
Voodoo5 5500
Kenwood 72x
Sound Blaster Live Gamer
Cambridge Soundworks 5.1 Digital Speaker System
Yamaha 8\4\24 Burner
And the list goes on

[sapasion]

Stable 1.4 with air could see you well above 1.5 in water

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Prince of the OC Crusaders
My Specs & Shots

[Colt]

Originally posted by sapasion:
Stable 1.4 with air could see you well above 1.5 in water

That was just multiplyer also, no fsb increase, and it was running at 1.75 volts. Remember going with a 172 watt pelt with a water chiller, Hoping for more than 1.5



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Knight of the loyal order to overclock the H... out of your chips.
http://www.nikeotronik.com/

750 Athlon Classic O\C to 1090MHz
Water cooled pelts
Abit KA7-100
256MB Micron Running at 133MHz cas 2
Voodoo5 5500
Kenwood 72x
Sound Blaster Live Gamer
Cambridge Soundworks 5.1 Digital Speaker System
Yamaha 8\4\24 Burner
And the list goes on

[ynd69]

Cool you got some OCZ ram too. I just bought a 256MB stick of PC166 from them. Just wondering, how long did it take to process your order and ship it out to you?

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ynd - Young and Dangerous, forever.

My Specs at Mr.White's Computer Haven

[Colt]

Originally posted by ynd69:
Cool you got some OCZ ram too. I just bought a 256MB stick of PC166 from them. Just wondering, how long did it take to process your order and ship it out to you?

Im not going to lie to you, a while. It took them 7 days to get it airborn, and two more to get here. Would have been nice if they were like TE-Distributing, Ordered, two days later my pelts were here. I do like the ram, it actually lets my old Abit KA7 hit some great FSBs. Actually had it running there at a 117FSB for a long time. Hopping do even better on my new comp/


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Knight of the loyal order to overclock the H... out of your chips.
http://www.nikeotronik.com/

750 Athlon Classic O\C to 1090MHz
Water cooled pelts
Abit KA7-100
256MB Micron Running at 133MHz cas 2
Voodoo5 5500
Kenwood 72x
Sound Blaster Live Gamer
Cambridge Soundworks 5.1 Digital Speaker System
Yamaha 8\4\24 Burner
And the list goes on

[ynd69]

Originally posted by Colt:

Im not going to lie to you, a while. It took them 7 days to get it airborn, and two more to get here. Would have been nice if they were like TE-Distributing, Ordered, two days later my pelts were here. I do like the ram, it actually lets my old Abit KA7 hit some great FSBs. Actually had it running there at a 117FSB for a long time. Hopping do even better on my new comp/

Thanks, I have heard that OCZ doesn't have such a great rep but it was the only site who had PC166 RAM which shipped to Canada. Hope it gets here soon.

Good luck on your overclock Colt.


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ynd - Young and Dangerous, forever.

My Specs at Mr.White's Computer Haven

[sapasion]

Hmmm so memman does ship to Canada eh?

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Prince of the OC Crusaders
My Specs & Shots

[ynd69]

Originally posted by sapasion:
Hmmm so memman does ship to Canada eh?

I wish they did, but they do not accept any international orders. I have decided not to go with OCZ, simply because they only accept payment through paypal and it will take a long time for them to confirm my credit card.

Oh well, Mushkin it is, I have ordered two sticks of Mushkin Rev 3

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ynd - Young and Dangerous, forever.

My Specs at Mr.White's Computer Haven