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pointdablame:

This may come off as a bit mean, so if it does I apologize.

ECS does not make a great motherboard.  They are passable nowadays, but in the KT266 days they were very low end motherboards.  You should NOT be overclocking with that motherboard, end of story.  Pull out your battery and clear the CMOS and you should be fine.

If you want, buy the highest CPU that motherboard will accept and just leave it at stock speed.  If you want to overclock, and you want to start out cheaply... go find a used AthlonXP 2100+ or 2500+ with a good stepping, and get a good overclocking motherboard.

Do not overclock with that ECS mobo again, it'll only cause problems.  I have dealt with at least 2 of them using that chipset and they work best if you just leave everything alone.  They are not meant to be pushed.

Tiger-Heli:


--- Quote from: pointdablame on February 02, 2006, 12:28:25 pm ---This may come off as a bit mean, so if it does I apologize.

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Sounded fine to me, I had forgotten about ECS's bad reputation back in the KT266 days, but your information sounds familiar to me.

More Cowbell:


--- Quote from: pointdablame on February 02, 2006, 12:28:25 pm ---This may come off as a bit mean

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Oh yeah!? Well, you're fat!  ;D
Seriously, good point. Glad to know how much I should push this particular piece of... er.. equipment. I don't know that I'll mess with overclocking again until I understand it better.

Tiger-Heli:


--- Quote from: More Cowbell on February 02, 2006, 03:00:04 pm ---
--- Quote from: pointdablame on February 02, 2006, 12:28:25 pm ---This may come off as a bit mean

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Oh yeah!? Well, you're fat!  ;D
Seriously, good point. Glad to know how much I should push this particular piece of... er.. equipment. I don't know that I'll mess with overclocking again until I understand it better.

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Seriously, Warborg had a very good point.  Back when you could overclock a Celeron 300 to 450 or even 550 Mhz and save about $800 in cost of CPU, it made a lot of sense.  When you are talking about getting 1.2 Ghz instead of 1.1 out of an Athlon, you really have to ask if there's any point in it. . .

Necro:

Bit of a tweak (save 50-200$ depending on the processor) and it only takes 2-3 bios settings?  Yeah...def worth it.  Esp. with the lower heat some procs are putting off....there's no real reason NOT to.

That is...IF you know what your doing. :)


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