Built a new system!

[RusCoder]

During the days-off (I wish those two weeks were a week longer...) rebuilt my home system. It's now ASUS P4T - Pentium4 1800@~1950 - 512MB SEC RIMM. Pity, it won't go higher than 108MHz - IBM hard drive stops responding.
I believe you'll guess what is the almost only bottleneck remaining...

P.S. Greeby, feel free to relocate the thread to Soap Box if you think it's appropriate. Just couldn't resist to boast a little.

[Greebe]

Tis fine here

Have you tried another HD that's capable of greater bus speed?

[ayoub_ibrahim]

hmm, always found IBM hdds tolerated o/clocking very well!

[Wombat]

How did you manage to actually get that system? I thought it was damn near impossible for people to order equipment like that and not have it stolen by customs or somebody else.

[dZeus]

Originally posted by Wombat
How did you manage to actually get that system? I thought it was damn near impossible for people to order equipment like that and not have it stolen by customs or somebody else.

eh????


RusCoder: try disabling UDMA completely in the BIOS (so that it will run in PIO mode 4) to see to what degree the HDD is limiting the overclocking potential... I've heard that P4/RDRAM combo should overclock very well under most circumstances

[Wombat]

dZeus, I was under the impression that this kind of equipment would be very hard to come by in Russia.

[RusCoder]

Greebe

Have you tried another HD that's capable of greater bus speed?

Some older WD drive could bear it at 110MHz but seemed to behave rather unstable most of the time. Anyway, even 1900MHz doesn't look especially bad I think...

Wombat

I was under the impression that this kind of equipment would be very hard to come by in Russia.

In fact, Russia is a real hardware paradise. Like Japan, but much cheaper. That retail P4T was the only thing that took a week to come by.