New k6-iii'er here!

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AlleyViper
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New k6-iii'er here!

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Well, just passing by to say hi, as this forum helped me a lot to set a small workstation to help sharing tasks with my group mates for university work. So let me introduce the machine:

Board: shuttle hot-591p 512kb baby atx mvp3 based
cpu: k6-IIIp 380 2.2v AFK @4.5x95 ~428mhz 2.3v
cooler: coolermaster 6I11-A1 with TT 6cm 7k rpm 38cfm fan @7v
mem: 256mb pc133, 64mb pc133 @95mhz 2-2-2-5 4way BI
gfx: xfx fx5200 128mb 64bit @270/400 agp 2x with SB on
pci2: nec usb 2.0 5 port pci card
pci3: cnet fast200 rtl based 10/100 nic
isa3: sb awe64 value
ide0: maxtor 40gb 5.4k @udma2
ide1: quantum 6.4gb 5.4k @udma2
ide2: btc 56x cdrom @udma2
psu: eurotech 300w atx (bah!)
case: old small p120 AT case

Running xp pro sp2 like a charm, using 4.43's and nv 45.23's (later than 56.72 give me blue screens in d3d, even with a pci vanta). I tried a sb pci128 (es1371) in second slot but got crackling, lower fps in games, and using latency fixes only fixed it in part, also changing via bus master driver to standard dual ide with no noticeable gains. So I went back to my good old awe64 that surprisingly lets me bench faster (~3 fps in q3), nevermind way better sound quality and no dropouts/crackle on heavy loading, so I guess it's a keeper.
I've also been reading nightmares about adding some newer cards, but this fx5200 gave me no problem other than the drivers dance that affected even a pci vanta, so after settling with good old 45.23's this card is perfectly stable, I didn't even try other than the via agp driver present in 4.43's and it's running at agp2x. The only quirck was that I needed to remove my 6>8cm fan adapter in the cpu cooler and return to an high performance 6cm fan due to mobo space limitations. Any gfx that had components tall on it's end (other than slim mems) would interfere with the cooler and the awfull socket position.
Well, this runs decently ps7 (cs2 is dead slow), flash, and it's currently being used for 3ds max7 low poly stuff for dozens of hours dead stable.

Superpi 1M runs about 6:50s, and 3dmark2001se scores 1826 default.

To get my k6-iiip 380 2.2v afk stable at 4.5x100 I need 2.5v, I don't know how safe that can be, considering that for 4.x5x95 I only need 2.3v and the cooler is very cool to touch. All of of this despite being in a small p120 AT case with a 8cm 34cfm blowing on the front, reaching cooler and mosfetts. This board has no form of hardware monitoring, temps or fan rpms. Thanks for any suggestions, Cheers!

edit: typo!
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Welcome aboard.
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Post by DonPedro »

:D ah, good news to read from a new member!

just wanted to say hello, I will come back here soon for some remarks to your intro.

right now it is half past 4 in the morning, I should get some sleep ;)
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mK6-2-P-380AFK
2.2V (2.1V~2.3V), 2.6V Max, 8A
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"ve have vays of makin yoo overclok..." :twisted:

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Heh, thanks for the welcome. When I have the time I'll try to settle with 4.5x100 2.5v and see how stable it can be. My current setting fortunately has passed some 12h prime95 in blend mode.
I'm a little out of the k6 world, but 18% doesn't sound bad for a regular k6iiip if I can settle with it, but 2.5v sounds a little too high for a 2.2v rated chip, even if afk's seem to have good heat tolerances.
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Oh well, I bit the bullet and went to 450mhz, at 2.5v I had some stability problems during heavy load and lots of programs running. So I had to up it to 2.6v and it seems perfectly stable now. The cooler is perfectly cool to touch, so I don't think there's a heat problem in here. Would boot xp at 475mhz but it wasn't stable, I guess 2.7v would be already too much, so I settled with 4.5x100 2.6v.
At first I tried cache timing to fast instead of fastest, but to my surprise, superpi went slower than at 4x100! And it didn't increase stability at 2.5v.


Superpi 1M went to 6.27s
3dmark01se is now at 1979
But what I find very strange, is that q3 demo four is now at 40.1 from previous 30.3!
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