Getting to 2.5 with a 3000+

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Hello, i just got a tornado fan and my idle temps are 36, load is 42 @ stock
I have tried overclocking it and i found a stable 12x200 @ 1.75v and 40 idle 44 load
I tried changing it to 12.5x200 and i cannot get windows to load stable. At 12.5x200 i used 1.85 as my voltage.

I am really iffy about raising my voltage above 1.85 just to get 100 more mhz.

What are your opinions on this?
Should I raise it to 2.5ghz and 1.9v
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I heard about the CPU burn in, should i wait for that?
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Should i consider raising my fsb instead

Thanks

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Signature doesnt wanna load up with specs
Shuttle SN45G v2 with tornado w/ nexus controller
AMD Athlon XP 3000+ 333fsb @ 12x200 1.75v
2 x 512 Corsair PC3200 XMS 2-3-3-11

 

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What is the week year of your CPU?
What color is your CPU? green or brown

 

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I do not recall the color and the stepping of my cpu.
Can you give me the solutions if my cpu was green or brown?
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my was factory unlocked when i bought it at frys but i dunno if with helps with anything

 

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Ok i got my stuff, i knew i was going to have to find it sometime
AXDA3000DKV4D 9454054240015
AQXCA 0312UPGM

Brown CPU

 

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If it doesn't load windows reliably at 1.85V it's probably going to take 1.95V to get stability if not more... sounds to me that 2.4+ is diminishing returns... not uncommon for that core. It's not really that dangerous to do 1.9V on air... I wouldn't do more than that for extended periods... although I've gone as high as 2.0 on air just to see what kind of numbers I could get.

I've got a couple of brown 2500+'s here that do 2.3 at 1.85V... but I don't expect much more out of them.... 2.4 is probably pretty good for that CPU.

 

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Should i consider raising my fsb instead to get it higher?

 

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Of course!

However I would back the multi off a bit. I would bump the FSB in 5mhz increments until Memtest86 becomes unstable.

From there I would add volts until it is Prime95 stable.

If both are stable than the PC is stable!

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Higher FSB = more memory bandwidth, this does help when couple with CPU Mhz.
If you can get 440FSB (220Mhz) and 2.4Ghz then you'll defnitely have something formidable against P4 3.0GC 800FSB

 

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the problem is that i cannot raise my memory voltage at all, other people have had motherboards die when changing the memory voltage

 

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iDunnolio said:

the problem is that i cannot raise my memory voltage at all, other people have had motherboards die when changing the memory voltage

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First I have heard of this problem...

Got any links dealing with this issue?

 

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Here are some people on other forums who had their SN45G's die when changing memory voltage.

http://forums.sfftech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=43&threadid=53231&FTVAR_MSGDBTABLE=

 

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iDunnolio said:

Here are some people on other forums who had their SN45G's die when changing memory voltage.

http://forums.sfftech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=43&threadid=53231&FTVAR_MSGDBTABLE=

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Sorry man, was thinking of the shuttle SN50...

But if that is the case, then I would be junking that MB and get one that wont corrupt when adjusting voltage...

 

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so, i cant even get above 200fsb stable without changing the memory voltage?

 

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iDunnolio said:

Ok i got my stuff, i knew i was going to have to find it sometime
AXDA3000DKV4D 9454054240015
AQXCA 0312UPGM

Brown CPU

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You CPU is a VERY early barton and you should be happy with 2.4GHz @ only 1.75v. as been mentioned before for stability at 2.5GHz you'd have to use 1.95-2v+, and that's a bit on the high side, not really worth the extra 100Mhz...

 

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Looks like i got the old stock of fry's electronics, i bought this cpu 2 months ago

 

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I sure wish i woulda bought mine at Fry's now
If I were you Quang try to return it and get credit back and buy a mobile 2500. Its definately not worth it trying to go that high after reading what happened to others after trying to up the memory voltage

 

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You got an old CPU because 3000+ are much less popular than the 2500/2600/2800+ CPUs. And as a result they don't run out of these chips fast enough to order newest steppings.