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Halloween Edition

PC assembly /
disassembly workshop
with overclocking demo
25.10.06
By Jonathan White / EE
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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.