PaulW
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2.6GHz from an Athlon-XP 2600+ Mobile... Not bad for a days work  Plus its still being air-cooled, no watercooling/peltiers installed as yet!
See if you can beat the Win-RAR benchmark I did aswell (P4's probably will  ), but you need winrar 3 to do it!
Fekin chuffed with this system now!
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Andy Stocker
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What you have just written above is complete jibberish to me
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PaulW
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as it may be for alot of people, but I got this comp running at a silly speed now! 
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ed
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What have you done to get it to run soo fast... My processor has a higher clock speed than your's, but it aint as fast as i'd like...
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Dom
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what are the 2600's usually? about 2 gigs?
take it your using a mobile AMD chip?...just that i remember someone saying that there going to buy a new system with a mobile chip etc
Got any pics of the actually case, insides etc?
looks good though mate 
edit: might have a go and wacking up my 3000, its currently running at 2.1gigs, i should beable to get it up a few notches with a decent fan 
[Edited on 01-05-2004 by VisibleMan]
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PaulW
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just played with memory timings/fsb/multi to get it as it is...
VisibleMan: aye its a mobile chip, its probs me your remembering about I posted aaaages ago when I was getting all the bits together! I got CPU, RAM & MB now, just testing it all in the case downstairs as I'm still making the case for it all! Standard clock of the 2600+ is about 2.05 i think, well, its what it runs at with everything set to auto in the BIOS...
I'll get a pic of the insides as they are now in a lil while.
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Adam-D
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sweeeeeeeeeeeeeettt mines a p4 fuck knows what its running at
it works and i dont care im not pissing round with it
i tried that a year or so ago witha cyrix chip running 400 od mhz on a 166 chip
it er only ran 100 od mhz after a few months
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ed
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Are there websites that I can go to, to find out how to make me P4 go faster?
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PaulW
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Current testing rig, basically just to bring the thing within an inch of its life!
1800ed - try this... http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content.asp?id=p4oc&page=1&cookie%5Ftest=1
Adam - I remember the old comps, I set fire to an old K6-2 500 once But I did have no heatsink or fan & was trying to fry an egg
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Dom
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yea mine isnt much faster than yours at standard rates:
might have a look into pushing the chip abit further, i know its good for about 2.3 gigs, but i believe you can push them further than this
Although 2.6 gigs outta a 2600 is fooking fast  although the mobiles are better at O/C'ing.
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PaulW
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plus the mobiles aren't multiplier-locked like regular XP chips mind if yours is a pre 39week '03 chip you 'should' be ok! (you'll need to look at the chip stepping to find out!)
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R Lee
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my brother is like you... talk so much technical stuff about computers, it goes straight over the top of my head and i just nod and agree. 
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Adam-D
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yup i got 166 mhz out of a dx 66 mhz chip
those were the days flip a couple of jumpers on the board and hey presto
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PaulW
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Ahhhh jumpers!!
Only jumper I use on this board is to reset the BIOS if I clock it too high & it doesn't post
Think my first ever PC had about 30 jumpers on it! was only a P200 aswell!
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drunkenfool
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You computer looks  ! I got mine a bit like that, but at the moment the side is off, one HDD is out of action and i lost the cold cathode tube! I used to be into computers a lot mroe than i am now cos i spend all the ££ on my car instead. 2600+ at the moment, might do an upgrade in the next few months.
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Dan B
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My XP2600+ runs at 2083MHz standard, so a jump up to 2592MHz is pretty impressive, Paul! 
Not really looked into 'clocking mine yet, but at least I know how high I can look into stepping it up to!
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transca
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quote:
Originally posted by PaulW
Current testing rig, basically just to bring the thing within an inch of its life!
1800ed - try this... http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content.asp?id=p4oc&page=1&cookie%5Ftest=1
Adam - I remember the old comps, I set fire to an old K6-2 500 once But I did have no heatsink or fan & was trying to fry an egg
i have a 2600 barton but have none of those fans, hhmmm maybe thats why it only runs at 2ghz
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Dan B
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By the way, Paul, what's that in the 2nd 5.25" bay?
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IntaCepta
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i thought my XP1800+ was fast 
i don't play many games, so i'm not bothered. as long as i can use notepad lol
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PaulW
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Dan B - 2nd 5 1/4 bay is the Front-X panel (came with the mobo, 2xusb, 1xfirewire, headphone, mic, and 4 diag led's)
transca - there to keep the northbridge cool while I was pushing it, brought the temps right down tho!
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Dan B
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Mine slows down when there's a lot on screen during some games......still trying to work out where the bottle-neck is, but I'm guessing the video-card:
1Gb DDR400 RAM
XP2600+ running at 2083MHz
128Mb GeForce4 Ti4600 (running at 321/680)
On shopping list: four 160Gb S-ATA drives (one for main machine, three for file-server when it eventually gets all these bits put together) and a 256Mb FX5950.
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PaulW
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the card in this one atm is only a GF4 Ti4200 but it does well now OC'd
The final spec of mine is far from complete!
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transca
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i've only got a standard heat sink and fan. could do with some monster fans for cpu and vga card, i got a 256mb geforce but if i overcloclk it it only lasts 5 mins playin vice city before everything goes dodgy
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