Thursday, April 26, 2007

Old Athlon Backend Info

Before Pentium D proc, was: Athlon XP 2100+ 1.733GHz
>> Clocked via bios at 138MHz (originally 133).
>> Clocked at 143MHz w/ +5% overvoltage: Stable & Vcore = 1.888V
>> Clocked at 153MHz w/ +7.5% overvoltage: Won't boot.
>> Clocked at 148MHz w/ +7.5% overvoltage: Vcore = 1.984V, Crash during prime95.
>> Clocked at 145MHz w/ +7.5% overvoltage: Vcore = 1.984V, 1884.8MHz Core speed, 13x multiplier, 145.0MHz FSB, 289.9MHz Bus speed; Got hard lockup after a couple hours.
>> [ Reported by CPU-Z ]
>> Prev stable: 143MHz w/ +5% overvoltage.
>> CPU overheating (segfaults when recompiling mythtv). Back to basic clocking.
Thermalright SLK-800 copper heatsink w/ Arctic Silver thermal compound on Athlon proc.
Gigabyte GA-7VAXP, KT400, Socket A, IEEE 1394, RAID (2+2 IDE), 10/100, 266/333MHz FSB, AGP 8x/4x/2x, 3 DDR DIMM slots, 5PCI, USB 2.0, 6-ch sound SPDIF in/out optical/coax. No SATA.
mythbackend version: 0.18.20050504-1 (from cvs).
Linux kernel 2.6.11-1.14_FC3 before 10/1/05.