Ideal voltage for p3 gighz burn in ?

[will_maltby]

I've got my 1ghz p3 running at 375mhz with a bus speed of 50mhz.

My abit slotket gives me voltages up to a ridiculous 3.5 volts.

So i was wondering, what is the highest i should take the voltage to for burning in?

I have a swiftech mcx370 as the heatsink.

thanks in advance for any advice.

[KILLorBE]

Welcome to the forums :)

If I read the data sheets right the absolute maximum would be 2.1V, but if you don't wanna fry your CPU I would only go up to 1.95V or "maybe" 2.0V (I'm kinda nuts and pushed it up to 2.2V :eek: NOT recommended, unless you're willing to take a risk).

BTW: Do I know you? your name sounds familiar......You live in the UK right?

[ol' man]

Originally posted by will_maltby
I've got my 1ghz p3 running at 375mhz with a bus speed of 50mhz.

My abit slotket gives me voltages up to a ridiculous 3.5 volts.

So i was wondering, what is the highest i should take the voltage to for burning in?

I have a swiftech mcx370 as the heatsink.

thanks in advance for any advice.


I would keep it as cool as possible and the max I would push it too would be like ~2.1v but make sure the HS is attatched as this may be too much voltage for the thermal shutdown to kick in if your HS is not attatched real well.

[will_maltby]

thanks for the info, I'll probably just leave it at 1.95 volts then.

And yeah, I live in the UK.

I signed here about a week ago and signed a few times back on the old BB. I think my username of "Will Maltby" got banned 'cos I used the word "b*tch" though I'm not sure...