can almost hang with the big boys

[ssahl]

I just installed my new Athlon XP 2500+ Barton cpu
all is well running at 34C

Epox 8RDA+
AMD Athlon XP Barton 2500+
1.83GHz 333MHz FSB
512MB DDR400
80GB Maxtor 7200rpm 8MB cache hdd
40GB IBM 7200rpm hdd
128MB Radeon 9800 pro

if I cant game on this system, then I cant afford to be a gamer.

lol

[Force Flow]

Don't see any reason why you shouldn't be able to game.

btw, what brand of RAM?

[Craig100]

Yea, the system will be a good performer :)

[QuickSilver]

Sure, you can game with that.

[xbenjix72]

i just got my geil DDR 433 dragon type in the mail. woot!

[Tin]

you can game on that system no problem. up your FSB to 200MHz so you can make the most of that memory. 8RDa+ is an excellent board. im a former owner of one. raise your FSB to 200MHz, set CPU interface to "on". let me know your memory brand/speed please, then i can tell you how to tune that. setting CPU interface to on descreases the latency between the CPU, RAM, and chipset, resulting in hgiher performance.

[ssahl]

I have 2 sticks of kingston hyperX and they are set at 200MHz

[Spyda]

A lot of times CPU interface can cause problems though, beware

[ric449]

Set at 200mhz with a 333mhz fsb? How?

[Tin]

you can AMD asynchronus. i wouldnt reccommend running it that way though, you take a big performance hit. always try to run your memory at 1:1.

[Spyda]

its quite easy, you just set the RAM frequency to 120% of the FSB. By far the better option is to bump the FSB to 200Mhz though.