ItsNoot
06-17-04, 01:31 PM
I had a secondary machine built using a Duron 750 and an Abit KT7. I slapped an old AWE32 I had lying around in for sound and had nothing but troubles with it. Sound would click and pop, really agrevating. I read online that the AWE32 and Windows 2k/XP dont get along so well and one guy said he overclocked his FSB 10 Mhz and it helped a lot. He was right, it did help. Not completely but far better then it was. So a couple hours after I built the machine it was clocked up to 110 Mhz and it has been ever since.
Fast forward 1 year. I decide to slap my original SB Live in the box and get rid of that infernal clicking/popping once and for all. I reset the BIOS to optmized defaults to get rid of all the delayed transaction and PCI timeout settings I had tweaked for the AWE32. Clocked the FSB down to 100 Mhz where it belonged. Booted up and just about shit myself when the desktop popped up as fast as it did. Clicked around the desktop a bit and watched in awe as things became so snappy.
Didn't bother benching it, didnt need to. The computer has new life in it, I cant believe how much faster it got... now I'm wondering... is it faster because its running at spec or because I have no ISA board? I've heard ISA will slow a whole system down, but this was only a Duron 750...
Fast forward 1 year. I decide to slap my original SB Live in the box and get rid of that infernal clicking/popping once and for all. I reset the BIOS to optmized defaults to get rid of all the delayed transaction and PCI timeout settings I had tweaked for the AWE32. Clocked the FSB down to 100 Mhz where it belonged. Booted up and just about shit myself when the desktop popped up as fast as it did. Clicked around the desktop a bit and watched in awe as things became so snappy.
Didn't bother benching it, didnt need to. The computer has new life in it, I cant believe how much faster it got... now I'm wondering... is it faster because its running at spec or because I have no ISA board? I've heard ISA will slow a whole system down, but this was only a Duron 750...