Here is my system spec:
AMD Athlon XP 1700+
Abit NF7-S Rev 2.0
Thermalright SLK-900A
Antec True Blue 480 Watt Powersupply
Kingston Hyper X PC 3500 Ram (1GB)
Radeon AIW 9800 Pro
Maxtor 120 Gig SATA Hard Drive
SB Audigy 2
Lite-On DVD Rom (16X)
Plextor CD-Burner (52X32X52)
Xaser 3 Case w/ 7 case fans
I just started it up today and it boots fine. However on the first boot it only detects my RAM as 400 Mhz. After I reboot, it detects it as 333 Mhz. This is regardless of the timings I choose. Is there a way to change the actual speed of the ram, or can you only change the timings? The other thing is I seem to be able to only hit 11.5 multiplier w/ 166 FSB before the system becomes unstable. Now I know people have easily been hitting 2.2 - 2.3 ghz with these chips, so what gives? As a side note I ran 3Dmark 2001 and only got 13402 pts, which seems awfully low for my setup. Thanks for any help you guys can provide.![]()


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) so it's unlikely to be that.
RAM timings and speed are set to AUTO/SPD by default and it's certainly best to override the speed to always run sync to the FSB eg 1:1, 3:3 etc (unless you run KT333/400 where running faster can gain you speed).
XP1700+ generally use 1.50v stock, should be okay up to around 2.0ghz which seems to be your problem. The actual CPU is designed with 1.65v in mind so using this value is not technically over-volting and should certainly get you more speed. 1.70 - 1.75v is as much as I'd go up to but see what you can do with more normal voltage first. When you experience instability (definitely Prime test it) you need to consider what is limiting you; cooling, RAM, mobo, CPU etc. If you're sure it isn't cooling then up the voltage by 0.05v and see if you can go significantly higher ... even small added voltage significantly increases both heat output and component stress so keep tabs on the exact perf boost it can net you. That's TbredB, if you have TbredA then be thankfull for 2.0ghz as that's a lot for that core, just rem every CPU is diff.
13000 seems a bit low, as said AA+AF etc are most likely factors ... 16000+ would be more normal but TBH 3Dmark2001 simply doesn't push these modern cards and you should bench in higher res with AA+AF in order to stress things ... or try something more stressful as std like 3Dmark2003.
