*Kicks his K7VZA to the curb*

**cooliscool** · February 6th, 2003

After tons of troubles with it, the damn thing finally pooped out.

As a replacement i got a Amptron Mobo with the Via KM266 Chipset, which thankfully supports DDR. Now i just need some money to get some DDR.

February 6th, 2003

Hehe what kinda trouble did you have with it? Or is it not what you expected? =p

zerocopy · February 6th, 2003

amptron,ecs and pc-chips i think are all in a one family company, what happened? you seem happy about it some days ago.

February 6th, 2003

Ya he seemed very happy with it. But he was OCing it kinda severely.

**cooliscool** · February 6th, 2003

Quote:

Originally posted by ChrisRay
Ya he seemed very happy with it. But he was OCing it kinda severely.

Actually i didn't OC when it burned up. I just turned it on and got nothing but a black screen. Oh well, this mobo is like 4x faster.

zerocopy · February 6th, 2003

when i overclock, i push it to the limit. So far nothing bad happened, cooliscool your one unlucky fellow. Best wishes on your new board. My duron 750 is now running at 910 w/ my fsb at 140 mhz. My old amptron mobo can only go at 106fsb on a default 100 fsb cpu.

February 6th, 2003

Quote:

Originally posted by cooliscool

Actually i didn't OC when it burned up. I just turned it on and got nothing but a black screen. Oh well, this mobo is like 4x faster.

Doesn';t sound like a chipset error. And when you did your CPU thing in MIRC you were always OCed.

Just seems the motherboard fried. That is all ^^

So you didn't have a ton of trouble with it. The Board just died

February 6th, 2003

Quote:

Originally posted by zerocopy
when i overclock, i push it to the limit. So far nothing bad happened, cooliscool your one unlucky fellow. Best wishes on your new board. My duron 750 is now running at 910 w/ my fsb at 140 mhz. My old amptron mobo can only go at 106fsb on a default 100 fsb cpu.

K7VZA definately won't do 140 FSB

I'm surprised your PCI devices are even stable~

zerocopy · February 6th, 2003

yep, this cheap mobo supports pci voltage, just upped it a little and voila rock solid. I did notice my sblive getting a tad hotter than it usually is.

February 6th, 2003

Errm i take that back. If he were to put the Athlon on a 133 FSB he could OC that to 145 FSB, But thats a huge OC for an Athlon thunderbird.

**cooliscool** · February 7th, 2003

Quote:

Originally posted by ChrisRay

Doesn';t sound like a chipset error. And when you did your CPU thing in MIRC you were always OCed.

Just seems the motherboard fried. That is all ^^

So you didn't have a ton of trouble with it. The Board just died

Actually i did have problems, it was way too slow to be an athlon. I tried everything but it seemed to slow. This board is noticeably faster, and supports DDR.

**Yeloazndevil** · February 7th, 2003

*reads cooliscool posts* hmm maybe its time to get a new mobo I think it is dying on me sometimes the pc won't boot

February 7th, 2003

Quote:

Originally posted by cooliscool

Actually i did have problems, it was way too slow to be an athlon. I tried everything but it seemed to slow. This board is noticeably faster, and supports DDR.

Have any benches? Just waiting for you to describe the problem.

Thats all.

**cooliscool** · February 7th, 2003

Quote:

Originally posted by ChrisRay

Have any benches? Just waiting for you to describe the problem. Thats all.

IRC Cwissy.

Among speed, i had gotten lockups (even w/o ocing) when gaming i got the "snow effect" without ocing the videocard. all that's gone now, i guess those were warning signs.

**cooliscool** · February 7th, 2003

A pic:

Yeah it lacks pci slots, big deal. All i have plugged into any slots is my Gf2 MX since i have onboard via lan and audio (which is pretty nice actually

).

edit: looks as if Amptron is a division of ECS. When i hit the motherboard ID button with sysmon script in mirc it says: <.cooliscoo.> Motherboard: ECS M825VXX

February 7th, 2003

I hate to say this cooliscool, but I also think you fried your mother board by overclocking. The reason I say this is because I had a K7 board myself for some time. I used it with both my Athlon T-Birds the 1.2 and the 1.4 When I got my new board for my Athlon XPs I gave my K7 board to my friend who is still using it. Neither one of us has had a bit of trouble w/that board. Sorry to say, I feel that your board died an untimely and premature death. Another reason why I am against overclocking.

sincerely,
sx/amiga

**Kane** · February 7th, 2003

I was thinking 'Ugh' for a second, then I thought : What do I use in my PCI slots....
In my machine is a GeForce 3, which would obviously stay in, my Voodoo 5, which could stay in, my Network card, which would become redundant, and my Audigy which could stay in.....

**cooliscool** · February 7th, 2003

Quote:

Originally posted by sxamiga
I hate to say this cooliscool, but I also think you fried your mother board by overclocking. The reason I say this is because I had a K7 board myself for some time. I used it with both my Athlon T-Birds the 1.2 and the 1.4 When I got my new board for my Athlon XPs I gave my K7 board to my friend who is still using it. Neither one of us has had a bit of trouble w/that board. Sorry to say, I feel that your board died an untimely and premature death. Another reason why I am against overclocking.
sincerely,
sx/amiga

I don't doubt the possibility. Thankfully the Athlon survived.

Kane: hehe, yeah. 2 PCI and 1 4X AGP slot is enough for me since it has LAN and sound onboard (Lan: Via Rhine II), (Sound: Via AC'97 Audio). If i could get my SB Live! to work with it (doesn't detect it, strangely), then i'd use it, but for now this AC'97 is quite nice. Quality is good, nice amplification.

**Kane** · February 7th, 2003

I couldn't cope withough my Audigy now. everything else just sounds so.... inferior.
Glad that you could still get something from the disaster.

**cooliscool** · February 7th, 2003

I paid frickin $100 for the son of a beeeitch, i would expect it to be nice. I mean hell, i could have an Nforce board for that much. Oh well, this board supports all athlons on 200/266MHz FSB so it's upgradable.

It also has onboard 32MB 3d acceleration which i'll try out later.

February 6th, 2003	#1 (permalink)
cooliscool Natural medicine Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Redmond, Washington, USA Posts: 6,150	*Kicks his K7VZA to the curb* After tons of troubles with it, the damn thing finally pooped out. As a replacement i got a Amptron Mobo with the Via KM266 Chipset, which thankfully supports DDR. Now i just need some money to get some DDR. __________________ Fayt : Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 1.8GHz @ 3.0GHz [Allendale] (1333MHz FSB), 2GB Crucial DDR2-800 Dual Channel kit @ 800MHz 4-3-3-10, 512MB BFG nVidia GeForce 7950GT OC (650/1600), Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS, MSI P6N-SLi nVidia 650i (crap OCer), 200GB Seagate Barracuda 8MB Cache 7200RPM SATA2 (NCQ), 80GB Seagate Barracuda 8MB Cache 7200RPM SATA2 (NCQ), Lite-On DVD+-RW 16x w/ Lightscribe, Lite-On 16x DVD-ROM, Aspire X-Dreamer II case, Logitech MX518 GG Optical Mouse, Asetek Waterchill kit (distilled water + Red Line Water Wetter), T.I.M - Arctic Silver Ceramique

February 7th, 2003	#17 (permalink)
Kane 邪魔ゎ指せない Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Gosport, England Posts: 26,255	I was thinking 'Ugh' for a second, then I thought : What do I use in my PCI slots.... In my machine is a GeForce 3, which would obviously stay in, my Voodoo 5, which could stay in, my Network card, which would become redundant, and my Audigy which could stay in..... __________________ >Site Live< Pop over to my site for help with setting up PSX emulators. Help for the Final Fantasies and other RPGs avalaible Celes: (Desktop) Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 2Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, MSI K8N Platinum, GeForce 8800 GTS 320Mb, 500Gb RAID HDD, Vista Business Erika: (MCPC) Athlon XP 2400+, 1Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, geForce 6800 256Mb, 80Gb Hdd, XP 2005 MCE Kimiko: (Desktop 2) Athlon 64 3000+, 512Mb 400MHz DDR Ram, Asus K8V, geForce 6800 128Mb

February 7th, 2003	#19 (permalink)
Kane 邪魔ゎ指せない Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Gosport, England Posts: 26,255	I couldn't cope withough my Audigy now. everything else just sounds so.... inferior. Glad that you could still get something from the disaster. __________________ >Site Live< Pop over to my site for help with setting up PSX emulators. Help for the Final Fantasies and other RPGs avalaible Celes: (Desktop) Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 2Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, MSI K8N Platinum, GeForce 8800 GTS 320Mb, 500Gb RAID HDD, Vista Business Erika: (MCPC) Athlon XP 2400+, 1Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, geForce 6800 256Mb, 80Gb Hdd, XP 2005 MCE Kimiko: (Desktop 2) Athlon 64 3000+, 512Mb 400MHz DDR Ram, Asus K8V, geForce 6800 128Mb

February 7th, 2003	#20 (permalink)
cooliscool Natural medicine Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Redmond, Washington, USA Posts: 6,150	I paid frickin $100 for the son of a beeeitch, i would expect it to be nice. I mean hell, i could have an Nforce board for that much. Oh well, this board supports all athlons on 200/266MHz FSB so it's upgradable. It also has onboard 32MB 3d acceleration which i'll try out later. __________________ Fayt : Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 1.8GHz @ 3.0GHz [Allendale] (1333MHz FSB), 2GB Crucial DDR2-800 Dual Channel kit @ 800MHz 4-3-3-10, 512MB BFG nVidia GeForce 7950GT OC (650/1600), Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS, MSI P6N-SLi nVidia 650i (crap OCer), 200GB Seagate Barracuda 8MB Cache 7200RPM SATA2 (NCQ), 80GB Seagate Barracuda 8MB Cache 7200RPM SATA2 (NCQ), Lite-On DVD+-RW 16x w/ Lightscribe, Lite-On 16x DVD-ROM, Aspire X-Dreamer II case, Logitech MX518 GG Optical Mouse, Asetek Waterchill kit (distilled water + Red Line Water Wetter), T.I.M - Arctic Silver Ceramique

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February 6th, 2003	#2 (permalink)
ChrisRay Guest Posts: n/a	Hehe what kinda trouble did you have with it? Or is it not what you expected? =p

February 6th, 2003	#3 (permalink)
zerocopy Banned Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 2,953	amptron,ecs and pc-chips i think are all in a one family company, what happened? you seem happy about it some days ago.

February 6th, 2003	#4 (permalink)
ChrisRay Guest Posts: n/a	Ya he seemed very happy with it. But he was OCing it kinda severely.

February 6th, 2003	#6 (permalink)
zerocopy Banned Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 2,953	when i overclock, i push it to the limit. So far nothing bad happened, cooliscool your one unlucky fellow. Best wishes on your new board. My duron 750 is now running at 910 w/ my fsb at 140 mhz. My old amptron mobo can only go at 106fsb on a default 100 fsb cpu.

February 6th, 2003	#9 (permalink)
zerocopy Banned Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 2,953	yep, this cheap mobo supports pci voltage, just upped it a little and voila rock solid. I did notice my sblive getting a tad hotter than it usually is.

February 6th, 2003	#10 (permalink)
ChrisRay Guest Posts: n/a	Errm i take that back. If he were to put the Athlon on a 133 FSB he could OC that to 145 FSB, But thats a huge OC for an Athlon thunderbird.

February 7th, 2003	#12 (permalink)
Yeloazndevil :3 Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 10,147	reads cooliscool posts hmm maybe its time to get a new mobo I think it is dying on me sometimes the pc won't boot

February 7th, 2003	#16 (permalink)
sxamiga Guest Posts: n/a	I hate to say this cooliscool, but I also think you fried your mother board by overclocking. The reason I say this is because I had a K7 board myself for some time. I used it with both my Athlon T-Birds the 1.2 and the 1.4 When I got my new board for my Athlon XPs I gave my K7 board to my friend who is still using it. Neither one of us has had a bit of trouble w/that board. Sorry to say, I feel that your board died an untimely and premature death. Another reason why I am against overclocking. sincerely, sx/amiga