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PC assembly / disassembly workshop: Φ Ie Computer Society

This document summarizes a workshop on assembling and overclocking a PC from 2006. It describes the components of the system including an AMD Athlon XP mobile processor, nVidia nForce2 chipset, EPoX motherboard, 1GB of RAM, 120GB hard drive, DVD and CD drives, ATI Radeon 9700 graphics card, and integrated sound card. It provides details on the processor, chipset, motherboard features, and recommends overclocking by increasing the CPU voltage and multiplier without changing the FSB.

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PC assembly / disassembly workshop: Φ Ie Computer Society

This document summarizes a workshop on assembling and overclocking a PC from 2006. It describes the components of the system including an AMD Athlon XP mobile processor, nVidia nForce2 chipset, EPoX motherboard, 1GB of RAM, 120GB hard drive, DVD and CD drives, ATI Radeon 9700 graphics card, and integrated sound card. It provides details on the processor, chipset, motherboard features, and recommends overclocking by increasing the CPU voltage and multiplier without changing the FSB.

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Φ IE3 Computer Society

Halloween Edition

PC assembly /
disassembly workshop
with overclocking demo
25.10.06
By Jonathan White / EE
Φ IE3 Computer Society

AMD Athlon Microprocessor


 32-bit Mobile Athlon XP (Athlon XP-M)
 130 nm SOI manufacturing process
 1.8 GHz clock rate (FSB: 200 MHz)
 L1-Cache: 64 + 64 KB (Data + Instructions)
 L2-Cache: 512 KB on die
 MMX, 3DNow!, 3DNow!+, SSE
 Socket A (EV6)
 Front side bus: 333/400 MT/s (166/200 MHz
double-pumped)
 VCore: 1.45 V
 Cost: $ 105
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Up close & personal


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Chipset & Motherboard


 nVidia nForce 2 chipset
 EPoX EP-8RDA+ Pro Motherboard
 4 Mbit Flash EEPROM with
AwardBIOS
 Cost:70 now
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Epox Ep-8RDA+ Motherboard

 ATX form factor


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Top View
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Processor Socket
 AMD Socket A
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3 DIMM slots
 3 GB DRAM max
 1 GB installed DRAM
 Dual Channel Support
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AGP slot
 AGP 8x graphics card compat.
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6 PCI slots
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Chassis / Power Supply


 Cost: $55
 Antec Power Supple 350 W
 Included with case
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Hard Disk
 Seagate Barracuda 120 GB HDD
 7200 RPM
 3 platters
 ATA interface
 Cost: $ 120 (THEN)
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Optical Drive
 4x DVD Drive
 Cost: 30
 32x CD-RW Drive
 Cost: 20
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ATI based Graphics Card


 R300 graphics chip
 DirectX 9 capable
 ATI Radeon 9700 Pro card
 Chip clock: 325 MHz
 DDR memory clock: 620MHz
 128 MB video RAM with 19.8 GB/s BW
 8 pixel pipelines
 Fill rate: 2.6 GTexels/s
 Cost: 50-100 now (Then 250+)
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Radeon 9700 Pro Card


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Integrated Sound Card


 Selectable 2, 6-CH audio from onboard
RealTek ALC65x AC'97 v2.3 compliant
CODEC.
 Support Aux-In, CD-In, S/PDIF-in and
S/PDIF-out
Rear panel audio jacks configuration;
 For 2-channel mode; stereo Line-out
(green), stereo Line-In (blue) and Mic-In
(pink)
 Audio quality: 24-bit/96kHz
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Overclocking
 Unlocked CPU multiplier is key
 Scale the core voltage to 1.65 volts
 No FSB overclocking (too complex)
 Resulting CPU frequency is:
 FSB speed * CPU multiplier
 Push higher Vcore via

motherboard voltage regulator


settings
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Start Up Screen
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Bois
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Questions?
Zoltar The Magnificent
can answer them.

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