the p4 architecture was so good that it was 'ported' to s775, even sandwiched into a dual core (pentium D) before the core 2 era.

@fylon
what to do.... budget mobo is like that. mobo limits the performance. even the highest vcore in bios only allow till 1.6v

2.68v vdimm max, no vagp to adjust. cant expect much. the temp is not a problem. just not enough juice to pump it up.

*i am not gay and i dont kiss cpu FYI. lolz..... i took 1hour+ to take out mobo, unplug everything. re-adjust psu cables etc. installing xp120 kill most of my time. block here there. lucky it do its job well.

yeah, pentium d had the same heat issues that prescott cores have too

btw, i just got a old dell p4 cpu from my friend. tested it, seems to boot up but no display. tried with my lcd and crt, both came up with no signals. most probably IGP on the mobo kong? it doesnt even have a AGP slot

@fylon,that is on default vcore only. To reach 3.5GHz need to rasie up the vcore a bit.

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Added on April 8, 2009, 1:15 pmDell mobo is quite fragile.Not lasting long.

This post has been edited by raymond5105: Apr 8 2009, 01:15 PM

i do not agree on this statement if it is as bad as mentioned, sure dell would not be able to penetrate enterprise markets which relies on stability for work productivity. of course we cannot deny component failures but given my experience with dell's after sales services, i would say they are excellent.

@Ray
Haha.. Dell doesnt produce any mobo la.. Most likely is the OEM manufacturer. If im not mistaken, should be Foxconn.

they design and then send to manufacturers such as compal (notebooks), foxconn, etc for mass production.

@edmin
Yea. Operate few dell dekstop before, they are having some sort of weird design mobo. Most of them are labeled as Foxconn. Haha..

this model mobo cant oc?

biostar u8868-d version 7.3

cant see any foxconn label on it..maybe due to the tight dell casing and many wires around
it's a really weird mobo design btw, no agp slot
i dont have a pci graphic card, so now cant test the system, cant check the specs. but everything else seems to be fine though, can boot.
my friend asked me to sell it for him. any takers?

Google ya best fren bro! the mobo seems like running in VIA chipset. Chances is quite low.

@edmin and fylon,i'm having bad experience with Dell.Really suck. They can down a few units in a time without any sign.

@ray,
give dell another chance. maybe your bad experience is from the same bad batch of production for that particular model/series. an example would be the recent nvidia's mobile chipset with integrated geforce 6000/7000/8000 design flaw, has affected massive world wide users, no matter what brand of notebook you purchased. also a good example would be the blown capacitors problem that caused chaos to everyone during 1999-2004 due to the stolen incomplete formula (from the japanese) by china capacitors producers.

This post has been edited by edministrator: Apr 8 2009, 09:08 PM

@kabu,
i join your superpi quest but don't laugh at me ok, my speed only 3Ghz while yours is @ 3.4Ghz

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now my mobo show me something weird. cmos battery can work "half way". what it do is only remember the time i shut off the power. lolz.......

@ed
"my speed only 3Ghz while yours is @ 3.4Ghz"

make me wanna move to dark side nia.... damn

This post has been edited by kabukiawie: Apr 8 2009, 10:43 PM

yeah but i know prescott have heat issues.. but mine is still going strong anyways.. nothing happened.. really satisfied..

@edmin
Fine tune ur ram timing to 1:1 ratio, and ur timing to 4-4-4-12 if can.. I think chance to hit 15-13sec..

dun wan 2 steal your record, i save the glory for u.

Haha.. I will change my mind from time to time. Afer my P45 come back, maybe i go underclock.

P/s: Change ur ram to 1T la.. 5-5-5-15 should be no problem of running @ 1T..

This post has been edited by fylon: Apr 9 2009, 09:16 AM

@edmin,i will see how is it going first.Next machine on Dell might be considered,i prefer HP more than Dell now.

@fylon,1:1 on edmin's machine will not break 15s on Super PI 1M,he will need more juice to achieve lower run time.