I got my A7V and t-bird 700 :)

[Greebe]

Dave, I didn't suggest HS tape or tubing due to the additional thickness once applied. Also because most users may already have electrical tape. This is cheap and not limited to a specific range of applications.

P.S. the wirewrap leads might be fitted between the leads under the socket.

BTW I'm not getting to many of them "SHEEP" in lately :\

[Joel]

I'm suppose to get the latest rev of the A7V board which supposely will not only have the audio but will have the dip switches too. Which is what the place where I placed my order is waiting for also. If it don't come in within the next week he will send me the non-audio one instead. Either way it doesn't really matter all that much to me. I'm not that big into overclocking but I would like to try alittle bit. IMO it can cause too many problems. If unable to OC much then I figure the 800 will tie me over pretty well until the 1.2GHz comes out which this board will handle.

"Mommy, How many more days till Christmas?"

Joel

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[Alfie]

Thanks for the tips,Greebe and Dave.
Now,Just have to wait a week for the mobo to be delivered!
Pertaining to heatsinks,some Alpha's work,(the ones without the feet)some Socket 7's will work and the new "Golden Orb" is meant to work(contraversy has arisen on this,however)
DON'T use the Golden Orb designed for Pentiums or socket 7,it can destroy Tbirds& Duron's.

[Kelvin_ky_teh]

Alfrie,

It is very easy to unlock a locked T-Bird. The method is to buy a connection stick and paint on the cut of L1.
I have bought a A7V and T-bird/750 yesterday and can o/c to 875Mhz (8.5x103).
However, the original heatsink provided by the dealer is not good and I have bought a GlobalWin FOP32 heatsink.

[Alfie]

Thanks for the tip,Kelvin!

[Joel]

Well everything finally came in and I am one happy camper. I'm using it right now to submit this post. Running WindowsME and so far no real problems. Boy this system is fast.

Joel

[Greebe]

Now Joel next time you call me on the phone, please don't get me out of the tub, TWICE! LOL

[Joel]

Well guys, I have my new system setup up and going. And except for a small problem involving my "green" monitor and a power management setting in the BIOS the setup went smoothly and everything at this time is running great. I decided to go ahead and load it with WindowsME which has DirectX 7.1. I have not done any OCing yet and except for the occassional reboot that is required when reloading some applications it has run without a hitch so far. All is in a new Antec KS282 mid tower case with a 300Watt ATX power supply.

Current Machine Configuration:
AMD socketA Athlon 800MHz on an Asus A7V motherboard with the VIA KT133 chipset,
128MB PC-133 SDRAM,
Matrox Millennium G400 32MB DH (AGP) drivers 6.01.015b (clocked at 150/200),
3Com EtherLink XL TPO 10Mb Ethernet Adapter (PCI) for my cable modem connection,
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! (PCI) version 3.0 Live!ware,
20.0GB Maxtor UDMA/66 HD (IDE),
15.0GB Maxtor UDMA/66 HD (IDE),
Toshiba SD-M1212 DVD-ROM Drive 6X/32X (IDE),
Memorex 4x2x24x CD-Rewritable Drive (IDE),
17" CTX VL700 Monitor (1024x768x32bit at 85Hz),
WindowsME (4.90, Build 3000) clean install,
DirectX 7.1 (4.07.01.3000),
VIA's 4-in-1 driver set version 4.24,

Motherboard BIOS settings:
Are all set at factor defaults at this time except for Power Management which I have disabled.

Motherboard Jumper Settings:
Set at defaults.

I use a custom Monitor setup:
640x480 = 135Hz
800x600 = 110Hz
1024x768 = 85Hz
1280x1024 = 65Hz (that's the max my monitor can handle)

Order of installation from a clean install:
1) Installed WindowsME (4.90, Build 3000) which installed DirectX 7.1 (4.01.01.3000),
2) Installed VIA's 4-in-1 Drivers Pack version 4.24,
3) Installed Matrox Video drivers (latest beta),
4) Disabled VSync

Some early benchmark scores:

Q2 demo1:
1024x768x32bit - 67.3fps,

Q2 crusher:
1024x768x32bit - 53fps

Q3 demo1:
800x600x32bit - 55fps

Forsaken (I know it's an old one) Nuke demo:
1024x768x16bit - 191.16fps

When playing UT at 1024x768x32bit with the timedemo statics enabled I average between 50-60fps.

3DMark2000 version 1.1 benchmark at default settings: 3154

And on top of all this the G400 and the 3Com NIC are sharing the same IRQ.

Joel


[This message has been edited by Joel (edited 21 August 2000).]

[Helevitia]

Looks good Joel

Now I'm upset though. If I overclock my 700 to 927 I can barely edge out 3000 on my system, what gives? I have pretty much the same system you have.

Dave

[Joel]

Are you running a regular G400 or the MAX. Mine is the regular but I am OCing it to MAX speeds.

Joel

[Helevitia]

ahhh, I missed that in your previous post. That and the fact that you are running WinME and I'm running Win98SE(not sure if that makes a difference).

btw-Do you get AGP2x? If so, did you have to force it? I did. I had to force it but it runs stable. What are you using to OC your G400?

Dave

[dwright]

Joel,
I have the same setup tb800, a7v, winme, G400max, 256mb pc133,and pt795@85hz. QIII demo1 @32bit colour and textures gives me 34.x fps vs your 67. I think it must be the VSync setting is on in my system. I tried the registry setting but this look like its for directx. MGAtweak utility did not seem to have the setting. How did you turn off VSync?
Note: try to get version 1.02 of the a7v - it has built in temp monitor and hd led comes on when using the ata66 ide connectors. There are still problems with the promise ata100 ide (boot delays if you don't use it and win driver delays if you do).
Thanks
David

[Alfie]

Well my Duron on my a7v board is doing 900mhz solid as a rock!
Actually could boot into windows at 1 gig!
A $74.00 cpu hitting 1 gig,yes 1 gig!
Unfortunatley the temp monitor in probe started going crazy,so I backed it back down.
As far as cooling,the Tiasol heatsink and fan is doing a pretty good job.
Put a fan on the heatsink on the motherboard and a small heatsink on the other(ics?)chip.
Feel it,it's near the udma66 controllers,red hot!Will be rigging fans for it.Apparently this is the chip that runs the bus.
Have decided to get a temp probe that can be hooked up to the cpu,so I'll be getting a second opinion on temps.
Dave did you ever find thermosistors?
Plycon sell the type that ships with the Asus board(complete with the 2 pin attachment.)
3dfxcool sells the heat probe I'm getting.
Discovered by putting my udma66 hard drive and cd rom on the udma100 controllers,ide light works and no delay in boot.
Left my LS120 on the udma66,in that way it still can be used as a bootable device.
Is it possible to have 133 mhz memory run @133,and if so,how?

[Joel]

Helevitia,

I did not have to force 2X AGP. At first it was only showing 1X but after installing the VIA 4in1 drivers it went to 2X on it's own. Goto mgatools.matroxusers.com


dwright,

The 67fps score was in Q2. In Q3 at 1024x768x32bit I get about 35fps.

Joel

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[Joel]

Alfie,

Go into the Advance Menu in the BIOS and set the DRAM Frequency to 133 MHz.

Joel