Overclocking 3.2 northwood

[whitehaze]

the chip code it SL6WG MALAY
L328A757

Now normaly in the past i just have my pc runing as norm for bout a week then start overclocking it

i belive this is not the best way of going about it??

some of u guys do a burn in process or some thing??

what would u recomend i do... as iw ill defnetly be looking to see what i can push out of it :D

what set up should i use on my mobo to do this???

[batboy]

What you've done is fine. You don't really need to run it a week actually. It usually takes 2-3 days for the thermal paste to settle in. I still O/C right off the bat, but try to hold off on the hardcore stuff for a couple of days.

[whitehaze]

scarey moment last night

i thought i had killed it :(

could not get my pc too boot up after trying to get 3.6gig out of it .....

am i expecting to much from it... or is it due to not giving to enough juice??

what can i expect to get out of this p4 on my set up... any one please?

[batboy]

If all else fails, use the clear CMOS jumper. Yeah, 3.6 gig is expecting a lot from that particular CPU. Start out gradually and work up a step at a time. Your siggy says 3.36 gig, that's not bad. Is that with default vcore? What about temps? Make sure you have the AGP/PCI locked to 66/33.

[teezer]

started playing with my SL6WG ~~~ so far at 3.7 (233 X 16) with agp 1.6, ddr 2.8, and cpu 1.8 and memory still at spd, which netted 39 secs running superpi

looking forward to see what this chip can squeeze out when more time is available

p4 3.2 512k 800 fsb + vantec hs with 120mm panaflo
abit ai7
kingston hyperx pc3500 2x256
u160 with 15k fujitsu scsi

[ed.howell]

started playing with my SL6WG ~~~ so far at 3.7 (233 X 16) with agp 1.6, ddr 2.8, and cpu 1.8 and memory still at spd, which netted 39 secs running superpi

looking forward to see what this chip can squeeze out when more time is available

p4 3.2 512k 800 fsb + vantec hs with 120mm panaflo
abit ai7
kingston hyperx pc3500 2x256
u160 with 15k fujitsu scsi

1.8VCORE!!! :eek:
That chip won't last very long if you haven't degraded it already.

I had a 3.2C that would not go over 220 FSB no matter what voltage or bios settings. I got it to boot a couple of times at 225 but after those couple times it would not even boot at 221. VERY strange chip. It was ROCK STABLE at 220FSB.

[whitehaze]

i havent got a cmos jumper

its an ai mobo does it its self

the 3.36ghz is what i ran my 3.06@ but i did get 3.6ghz out of it but had some issuses witht he odd thing i i kept it at 3.36

i have had my 3.2 @ 3.5 so far... will try for a bit more

[whitehaze]

i carnt seem to get mine above 215 atm with out it not booting or bsod in windows....

am a bit usure what sort of vcore i should be looking at to achive this dont want to set it too high??

[batboy]

Depends on temps, but almost everyone agrees that 1.6v with a Northwood is very safe if you have decent cooling. I've used vcore up to 1.65v (actual measured) with excellent cooling, but I don't recommend going higher.

[whitehaze]

ok cheers... it idles at 28-30 atm peaks at 37..... its running them temps at 3.36ghz atm

[RubiX³]

1.8VCORE!!! :eek:
That chip won't last very long if you haven't degraded it already.

I had a 3.2C that would not go over 220 FSB no matter what voltage or bios settings. I got it to boot a couple of times at 225 but after those couple times it would not even boot at 221. VERY strange chip. It was ROCK STABLE at 220FSB.

This was my 3.2C experience exactly.

[whitehaze]

i carnt get mine higher than 214 with out it telling me to sod off :( dunno whats up with it