haha..........i more tempted to your ultra90. btw, how about the fan for it? may i know how much u spent on the hfs and the fan??

i missed shawty's last unit xp120......someone grabed the last unit from him 2 minutes before me...........

This post has been edited by kabukiawie: Jan 9 2007, 07:37 PM

fan im thinking of getting a TT thunderblade 92mm from moderno...if i have time to buy it anyway if not maybe just my 80mm vantec spectrum led fan first if it fits

for the ultra90 + s478 retention kit is rm155 and also the chill factor so its rm180

Pengster your memory only able to run in DDR300?Is it your original RAM speed is running at DDR266?Your northwood core should be able to reach at least 3.0GHz with good settings.

yeah cuz one of my rams is DDR266 and the other is a DDR400..i shall be gettin another stick of DDR400 ram to replace my old one

the main reason im not pushing it like i did last time is cuz my enermax has been sent for RMA last time with my enermax and rams on 4:5 divider could reach 2.88ghz after that dint try anymore

i am using 3.82ghz, 1:1, 2 3 2 5 now because at 3.9ghz i need to use 5:4 and 3 4 4 8.

i only tested superpi on 3.9ghz.

http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopi...dpost&p=9839173


If your processor is northwood, you can go much much higher than your 2.7Ghz.

If your casing can fit, should get the Ultra 120. can perform much better

To me the only difference is its BIOS got more things, Vdimm at 3.2V and has OTES and more SATA drives support.

IS7-E the limit is its Vdimm, do a Vmod on it and you can get Vdimm of a IC7. Plus you can enable and disable PAT.

If you can, get the Abit AI7 if you can't get either the IS7-E/IC7-Max 3:) The best i865 chipset mobo from Abit

This post has been edited by shinjite: Jan 9 2007, 11:37 PM

adding to shinjite info,

Vdimm 3.2V in IC7Max3 is useless. got issue- VTT
get AI7 if u can. max vdimm also at 3.2V but no issue.

if u can get AI7 then just forget about IS7-E

thx for the usefull info
i m getting a is7-e
btw...if siauann bro tested the ic7-max3 and decide to sell it pls PM me

n bros here who wan to sell his abit ai7..pm me oso

thx a lot..

last time i saw from air cooling thread that 1 of the forumer manage to fit 120mm fan in his ultra90.

rm180.....over budget for me...

All these issues can be solved, do a Vmod, but sadly I don't know these things plus its risky

yeah 2.7ghz is just slight oc..since im on a capalang psu and all that my target would be 3.4ghz or at least 3ghz

dun think my casing can fit,cuz im using some cheap mid tower casing

its actually rm130 only leh...but sadly im not on LG775 yet so no choice but to get the bracket and to maximize the performance mar get the chill factor lor

kabukawie, if your 2.4B stepping is the same as mine C1, then 3 Ghz will be no problem with stock voltage, but to go to 3.4Ghz stable will be at 1.69V

UNLESS yours is a M0 stepping, thats a gem, saw 1 guy have it, 3.51Ghz only needs 1.55V prime stable...shyt >.>"

It all depends on the ram's bandwidth efficiency and of course for SuperPI, the 1MB cache does help a lot in high frequencies, we Northwood users will lose.

For mine, my 5:4 ratio scores better than my 1:1 ratio in Sandra and SuperPI

Yaya recently i discovered that using tighter timing on my RAM does boost a bit on the Super PI. The bandwidth efficiency really gives boost to overall system performance.

erm just a question.if my ram's timings are too tight for my mobo,will it cause my whole pc to freeze up?

Yaya,unsuitable RAM timing will causing your pc to freeze.Especially those tight timing like 2-x-x-x . If want to use those tight timing,need very good and high performance RAM.I see irangan's RAM also can run at tight timing nicely.I guess his value RAM is the best in terms of performance and value in tight timing setting.

play around, if too tight it will either give you a long beep or it won't boot at all
If it can boot, another symptom is that your comp will freeze then restart XD

oh okay...my timings too tight edi now readjusted to 2.5-3-3-6 and no problems so far for an hour+ edi..earlier on after 30mins den freeze edi

oh yeah guyz i just got my DDR400 ram from irangan [nice guy ] so which do u all prefer?run both 512 at dual channel or put in my old 512 and make it total 1.5gb ram?

You can try to run on both and see how is it. Of course 1.5GB RAM will be the best for your system.But if want to talk about overclocking need to see which pair of RAM does better.

mine is the 533fsb pressHott...A version. stock voltage i manage to boot at 3.2GHz but keep restarting. 3GHz is the best prime stable speed that i can go with stock.

UNLESS i have the same stepping as nelza's 2.4A, his gem manage to run at 3.6GHz at stock!!!! OMG!

Better stick at 1GB at ddr400 to run at dual channel and you can boost your fsb 1:1 with tight timing coz still under 200fsb. at 3GHz you can run at C2 for your ram.