Dear all gurus,

Pls enlighten me on a would-be replacement board for my AMD Barton + AGP card + 2x512 DDR-SDRAM.

Consulting u guys as I wanna overclock my aged processor to an edge

I failed to clock it with my old Abit NF7II (chipset: nForce2 Ultra 400) - was unstable and hung most of the time.

As u all can see in the screen shot, I was underclocking my AMD to a puny suboptimal speed



Would edit this post to slot in details when gurus feel necessary.

Thanks in advance

This post has been edited by skma: Aug 11 2006, 01:59 AM

Future use

yours one should be DDR and not DDR2

Thanks for the correction

DFI LANParty B nF2 Ultra

if possible... get a pair of BH-5 or BH-6.... and run very very tight timing

the board can support DDR voltage up to 3.3V without mod, and up to 4V if you do pencil mod...lol!

i heard epox k7 mobos r good at OC too
but the caps were not that good
but if u happen to find some epox going cheap coz bad caps, get em n send em to some pro who can replace all the caps with good ones
hard core eh

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or probably ur abit suffers bad caps too?

This post has been edited by e-jump: Aug 10 2006, 10:21 PM

Thanks e-jump for ur kind reply,

Caps=capacitors, I presume?

Sorry buddy, not a tech guy in fact. Caps problem in my board? Probably so.

How to confirm? Any specialists that u can recommend? Around penang side (northern area).

Just wanna ask..usually what'll be the symptom if it's caps problem?

Thanks for the recommendation. Tried finding in lowyat.net..

Nobody's selling!

Any good place to land on?

Not sure....

my 2nd recommendation would be DFI Infinity NF2 Ultra... same overclocking capability

Hmm..same problem bro. DFI boards are scarce around here

Been reading about bad caps. Found this one:
http://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=1507

So to say, are bad caps a common problem?

well... i've never heard about dying DFI Infinity NF2 boards despite hardcore overclocking

I've personally tortured my old DFI Infinity with 3.7Vdimm through vmod, and processor up to 1.9Vcore

Never had any problem at all.... even that time I was only using Enlight 420W.

Anyway... got ppl sell infinity board here: http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopi...531&hl=infinity

Does this board backward compatible with my current processor?

->DFI LANPARTY UT NF4 ULTRA-D

u can only get 2nd hand mobo for now
no more sc A mobo in market now
even s939 almost....

Found an old MSI K7TPro2 (MS-6330). Can this board hold an AMD Duron 1.3G?

sorry for my rate reply..
yep, caps = capacitor

in recent mobo, bad caps issue is no longer a problem.. but back in the days of socket A mobo, its indeed a major problem. as i seen few of my mates abit dies of bad caps (abit nf7-s,-s2, -m, intel mobo) .. usually to identify dying caps, it looks bulky/fat like wanna explode, or have some liquid/rust around it

regarding K7TPro2, its using Via chipset, this it definately wont satisfy you in OC
http://www.ocworkbench.com/hardware/micros.../k7tpro2ap2.htm

for dfi mobo, try ur luck here
http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=278950

This post has been edited by e-jump: Aug 12 2006, 12:38 PM

Abit NF7 board has high potiential to overclock, it might be your Barton cannot go to high frequency. Try to use higher Vcore and VDimm...also voltage up your NorthBridge

are you sure that barton of yours is supposed to run at 2400mhz? 11.5x200 seems to be an overclocked setting already. is your chip a 2.4Ghz

the highest speed barton that i know of is the 3200+ which runs at 11x200.. most of the bartons have 166mhz bus only.

please correct me if i'm wrong.

abit nf7 v2.0 is the best choice bro!

have you ever try to overclock your processor on other board? Like MSI, Asus, DFI or Epox. If other boards can achieve higher speed and more stable then it might be your board or Abit problem. If not most probably is not the board's fault. Check the RAM timing, PSU voltage see if it is stable when increase in voltage...etc

the best for socket a still dfi laparty b / ultra infinity... but abit nf7-s rev.2 oso good except limited vdimm...

AFAIK... abit usin rubycon caps... very hi quality one... i never seen any of rubycon caps leaked b4...

*thanks to e-jump for the link... never imagine dfi wud use cheapo teapo caps for its lanparty series... i have seen dfi boards b4 lanparty era usin teapo caps so i guess its normal dat time since dfi not a popular/hi performance boards when they make boards for amd long-long time ago...

*avoid buyin msi board (socket a) if u wana oc ur proc... it such a gay board... gimme headache & bios suddently died after few test of oc luckly i know how to hot flash... if not need to pay for it...my customer ask me to oc it abit but end up wit corupted bios...

I would like to get one DFI N2 Ultra too..
but dunno which bulkers or where can get, as i know is no more producing right?

sorry to thread starter for disturbing ur thread...


I have a DFI Lanparty NF2 ULTRA B,

The mobo doesnt boot, from the diagnostics led, its only booting.

is it maybe the bios is corrupted ? ANy chance of hot flashing ?


Thanks.

if i'm not mistaken, lp bios can be used on u.i board, so i think it's the same the othrt eway round.

if ur in melaka, go pm sifu alvarez_, i think he can help u on this...