xp1500m/nf7s overclocking problems

[Howard]

Might be going against many people's views here, but why would an XP1500 be designed to be overclocked to serious speeds Surely you'd buy a fast ish chip in the first place. Or at least a decent one, Barton, or whatever.
But that's just me.

[Apex]

they do but they stop working at different speeds on different boards(normally around 225fsb) you can fix this with a romsip modded bios

and you will be lucky to get above 221fsb on a nf7-s unless your voltmodding it

[schrickvr6]

sorry i don't understand your point....

i've been through alot of nf7's and i've not known one v2 not to do 225fsb out the box....anyway at what fsb can't you use 10x + 10.5x?

[Apex]

Just point out the issues with the NF-7 range.

and regards the multi 200fsb and above, and thats even trying a modded bios which made things worse....

anyway am happy with the clock am getting

[Rave]

Might be going against many people's views here, but why would an XP1500 be designed to be overclocked to serious speeds

Well, no chip is designed to overclock, but these XP1500s are based on a good stepping of the Tbred-B core and run at a very low voltage as standard, hence they tend to have plenty of overclocking headoom.

Surely you'd buy a fast ish chip in the first place. Or at least a decent one, Barton, or whatever.

Well, unless you find someone who has old chips in stock (I.E. packaged before 0339), all desktop XPs and Durons are now multiplier locked. Consequently mobile chips are now by far the best choice for overclockers. These XP1500s are less than £30, Mobile Bartons are more than £60. Since they clock to about the same speeds in general, many people take the view that the extra cache isn't worth an extra £30.

Rich :¬)