Seeing as how I was nearly incoherent when I wrote that about having overclocked the system, I should probably revise it to say what I really meant to say. That is, of course, I overclocked the system’s FSB from 133 MHz to 140 MHz. This, in turn, pushed up the bus speeds on my PCI slots and DDR RAM as well, so here are the new system specs:

=> AMD Athlon XP 1700+ (1.47GHz Thunderbird) overclocked to perform as an 1800+ (1.54GHz)
=> 256MB DDR RAM running at 280MHz
=> FSB 140MHz

I tried jacking the FSB speed up higher, but since the PCI bus couldn’t keep up, it would reboot the machine. Next stage in the project, if I decide to undertake it, will be to jump up either the voltage or the multiplier on the chip (or both) to [1] overclock it, since the other night I bought two [2] blue LED 80mm case fans and installed them along with another, moving also the hard drive from its place in the bottom of the case (where it was reaching upwards of 145°F!) and shutting the case up so it’s quieter. Now, if I could just do something about that rattling CPU fan….

You know, the simple solution would be to just get a new Athlon XP 3200+ so I could upgrade my HSF. ::ahem::

Seeing as how I was nearly incoherent when I wrote that about having overclocked the system, I should probably revise it to say what I really meant to say. That is, of course, I overclocked the system’s FSB from 133 MHz to 140 MHz. This, in turn, pushed up the bus speeds on my PCI slots and DDR RAM as well, so here are the new system specs:

=> AMD Athlon XP 1700+ (1.47GHz Thunderbird) overclocked to perform as an 1800+ (1.54GHz)
=> 256MB DDR RAM running at 280MHz
=> FSB 140MHz

I tried jacking the FSB speed up higher, but since the PCI bus couldn’t keep up, it would reboot the machine. Next stage in the project, if I decide to undertake it, will be to jump up either the voltage or the multiplier on the chip (or both) to [3] overclock it, since the other night I bought two [4] blue LED 80mm case fans and installed them along with another, moving also the hard drive from its place in the bottom of the case (where it was reaching upwards of 145°F!) and shutting the case up so it’s quieter. Now, if I could just do something about that rattling CPU fan….

You know, the simple solution would be to just get a new Athlon XP 3200+ so I could upgrade my HSF. ::ahem::