Is it safe at 1.72v?

[ILikeMy240sx]

I've heard about many NB having the syndrome at over 1.7v. Just wondering if it will be ssafe to run my core at 1.72... Im water-cooling BTW

[Chris_F]

Your temps look good, but most people don't go past 1.65v. 1.7v might be ok for prommy cooling, but I'm not sure about water. Maybe someone else can say.

[deathman20]

Had that same question I was running at 1.71v but decided for saftey I'd bring down the OC under the 1.7 limit it seems. My suggestion is that I wouldn't unless you can afford another CPU if something happens.

[ILikeMy240sx]

at 1.7 its not perfectly stable. I can play games for 12 hours but for somereason Prime95 stops after about 4 hours... (???) Running at 1.72 Prime95 went for 14 hours and i stopped it. So just wondering if it will shorten the life of the CPU dramatically or cause it to have SNDS

[deathman20]

I mean even at 40C I have a great air temp I mean its just breaking 100F which isn't bad at all. Most people say 1.65 which is true then again I like breaking rules if I can get a little more out of her hehe.

At 1.72v your CPU could last yea 2-5 years maybe longer then again it might only last yea 1-2 months. Depends on how lucky you are really.

[Jimbob7]

ive ran my p4 2.4b @ 1.70v for about 8 months, still going strong

Although maybe im lucky??

[deathman20]

Whats you Bios setting compared to Windows voltage?

Like mines 1.7 volts bios but 1.675 volts windows basically.

[zabomb4163]

yes, 1.7 is a bit high. higher than 1.7vcore is dangerous for a p4 regardless of cooling. remember the key word in SNDS

sudden northwood death syndrome......as i it acts normal one day and the next day it won't even boot.

if i were you i would step off my overclock a little and use a safer voltage, unless you are willing to take the risk.

[ILikeMy240sx]

Right now im running 1.72 and idle votage sometimes goes up to 1.76:eek: but for very short time. The voltage stabilizes as i put it under load. Raising AGP voltage to 1.7 helped with voltage stabilization.

[ILikeMy240sx]

*sigh* :cry: what do you recommend as the safe voltage? 1.65 perhaps?

[Ganesh Jadu]

Is SNDS with all Northwoods? And what about mine Lmfao I ran mine up and down 1.75-1.9v. I can make it do a sort of SNDS I raise the volts to 1.9v and up my fsb till my clock speed is 3.633 it loads up but then my whole comp. just turns off.

I know my mobo has undervolting issues 1.9v in windows is 1.85 and 2.00v is really 1.9.Yea I ran it at 1.9v a couple of times. I used to run my old XP-Tbred B at 2.00 volts on air till it all caught on fire which my darn heat sink fell off damn Aero 7.

I never heared about SNDS I thought a cpu is any other type of electric product, putting stress and high volts is my job :D and I didn't know it would kill it. :p LoL hope mine dies hehe.

[zabomb4163]

Originally posted by ILikeMy240sx
*sigh* :cry: what do you recommend as the safe voltage? 1.65 perhaps?

1.65 is pretty safe