Tribute to the AMD Athlon XP Thoroughbred 'B' (Computer Geek Warning)
 

Well...I dug up my old CPU I had shelved for about a year now for an AMD Athlon XP Barton 2500+, and I popped her into my "new" MB...To Say the least, there an engineering marvel, especially for its time....I just wanted to pay tribute to that with sum screenies....

CPU-Z CPU
CPU-Z Motherboard
CPU-Z Memory
SiSoft Sandra Arithmetic
SiSoft Sandra Multi-Media
SiSoft Sandra Memory

A few details...

AMD Athlon XP 1700+ Thoroughbred 'B' JIUHB STOCK 1.47Ghz @ 2.1Ghz @ 1.8VCore
DFI AD77 Pro Via KT400 Motherboard
512MB of PC2700 2.5-3-3-7 Nanya DDR Ram
ATI Radeon 9600 256MB Video Card
40GB Seagate Barracuda IV 7200rpm HDD
40GB Maxtor 7200rpm HDD
SB Live!

Yep...Basic system, and all it does is convert AVI's to VOB's for me....its great....

BTW The reason why it says in the screenies that its a 2400+ is cuz i unlocked the 5-12.5 multipliers on the CPU (only nForce 2 chipsets do it automatically) and am using a multiplier of 12...

-Jay

Awesome I have a computer too! :thumbsup

:lol_hitti

get out, i dont :smilie_da

I can let you borrow my 286 if you want :urbuddy:

computer? memory? hard drive? huh.. is this french or something?

My sempron is overclocked to 2.08

Cool...

My Throughbred B 1700+ is at 2.1 as u can see..and my Barton 2500+ is at 2.57Ghz :smilie_fi

-Jay

Thats ING crazy!

my computer has a ecko unltd sticker that i got at importfest on it :thumbsup oh and a b and m shifters and autometer stickers as well .....yep my computer is riced out

I'm running some cheap ram & a cheap/old mobo, so I can't go any higher than 208fsb

Thats cool dude...but ur mobo isnt that cheap if ur runing generic/cheap ram at 208MHz....

Ive got pc2700 (333) Nanya generic ram..it doesnt get any cheaper than that on my 1700+ system.... and ive got her at 175Mhz (350Mhz DDR) on a shitty chipset....

I thinku just need sum JDM tweaks.....

-Jay

hahahahaha thats hot jokes

I'm running my P4 3.0 overclocked to 3.74 right now. I did hit 4.0, but it got unstable.

Not bad...to bad the P4 has a low IPC (Instruction per clock) so really, a 3.74Ghz P4 is slower than say...an AMD Athlon XP Barton @ 2.4Ghz even....gotta love the high IPC of the K7..and its even better on the K8 (Athlon 64, Opteron, Sledgehammer/FX etc.)

I thin k im gonna run sum benches on this POS Dell im using at school right now.....SiSoft Sandra here we come...

-Jay

My mobo is a ECS L7S7A2, it cost $60something brand new, a good mobo was $130+ back then. It's not good because I have to increase the PCI/AGP clock to run FSB higher than 204, and my ram isn't stabile past 208mhz.
The computer boots at 218fsb, but it dies when windows loads.

Just becasue it was cheap (in price) by NO means makes it a cheap/shitty motherboard...

ECS is KNOWN to make great boards for a cheap price.....how can we forget the K7S5A ??? One of the greatest selling and STILL selling motherboards of ALL time...the ECS L7S7A2 is no different, it was to be the "next generation" K7S5A, and the SiS 746 chipset is rock solid...

as for raising the FSB clock in turn raising the PCI/AGP clock..thats normal with ALL FSB overclocking....

Just sum chipsets offer PCI/AGP Divider locks....so no matter what ur FSB the pci and agp divider/clock will be at 33Mhz...

so u have a Sempron running at 2.08Ghz....thats nothing....whats the stock multiplier ?? nevermind..its 10...if ur at 208fsb and running at 2.08GHz ur multiplier is 10...

i know AMD has the multis locked on the semprons but there HAS to be a way aroudn that, sum 1 musta foudn out by now...a Sempron is just a re-labled AMD Athlon XP Thoroughbred 'B' (XP with 256K L2 Cache...Pre Barton)

-Jay

Yea I know it's not shitty, it's just cheap and old. I used to have the K7S5A too, and I had it overclocked to 166fsb.
My mobo has the divider lock, but if I keep it at 66/33 I can only go up to 200fsb, 201fsb is unstabile unless I go to 68/34, and over 208fsb I have to set the AGP clock to over 72/36 in order for it to run. It's a common problem when overclocking these motherboards.
If I do some modifications to the mobo, get better cooling and better ram, it should run at over 220fsb, but it's not really worth it.

I can't ever see myself using an ECS MB.

I just wish my Mobile XP2500, even when it ran @ 2.4ghz, would play HD movies without stuttering... but it woudln't.
It was running at 200x12, with 1gb of Samsung PC3200 running @ 400 as well... stuttered :(

My friends P4 3.06ghz (533mhz FSB, not even the 800) played the same HD streams easily.

P4's seem to deal with converting movies better than AMD's from what I've seen as well.

I used to have problems with movies and some D3D games stuttering, it was driver related.

ive owned a couple ECS motherboards.... junk! :smilie_da

however, AMDs do rock. :thumbsup

i liked the ECS K7S5A....was a good CHEAP board...

as for stuttering in HD Movies....it has nothing to do with ur MB or CPU....

P4's do NOT handle streaming better than Athlon's....usually when theres a slow down or stutter, there could be a conflict with an IRQ on ur system, or a bios/driver update for ur hardware may be needed....

ive got my dekstop 2500+ barton @ 11x200 right now (3200+) and theres def. NO issue anywhere....

i got my said 1700+ System to 2,220Mhz now....185FSB x 12 Multiplier @ 2.0VCore....to bad its on a Via KT400 Chipset board.....either way, im impressed......100% Prime95 Stable...im gonna reboot it and ptu her back to 2.1Ghz....cuz at least than its at 1.85VCore..i mena i could care less what VCore its at, but at 2.00 the cpu idles at 45 celcious and im using the retial AMD CPU Cooler on that system...hahah

-Jay

-Jay

lol. mines holley equipped. also has B&M Shifter as well as some taylor ignition and an edelbrock intake. it also rocks the DC Shoe Co.

:smilie_da