2.4b oc

[bsfalcon]

why cant i get a steady, stable, and reliable oc out of my 2.4b? sometimes i can reach 2.9, but sometimes i cant even get my computer to boot after upping the fsb from 133 to 145 and i have to reset the cmos. i have a good solid copper core with a 80mm 2500-3500 rpm fan on it, with idle temps at 2.4 of 30C. i can lock my agp/pci bus speeds and set the ratio so my RAM continues operating at the right speed, but i can never get a reliable overclock. any ideas?

[David]

What are your temperatures like when overclocked? What about the PSU rails? Have you tried increasing vcore?

[bsfalcon]

my mobo bios only let me increase the vcore from 1.475 (normal) up to 1.6. the psu rails stay steady, with only minor variations, nothing big enough to cause i problem, as far as i know. overclocked i get temps of around 40-50C depending on how high i get it to oc.

[David]

It may be that your CPU just wont OC any further. If you post the stepping codes off the CPU then some of the more Intel-igent (bad pun, im sorry) members may be able to tell you if that core has a good or a bad reputation for overclocking.

[Albuquerque]

Yeah, I had a 2.4B that couldn't hit 2.7 to save it's life. I also had a 1.8A that would do 2.85 on only 1.65v, and a 2.4C that would do 3.2ghz on stock voltage :p

Overclocks are still very much about your luck! :)