- Joined
- Aug 13, 2003
- Location
- SW and SE Michigan
Overclocking my 2.4c seems to have hit a little wall.
At 285mhz FSB, my computer is just fine. I can loop Prime95 100% stable for hours on end without errors, and temperatures stay very low (below 40C actually). However, once I push the FSB past roughly 288, the BIOS will become instantly corrupted upon reboot. I then need to use the ROM image on the driver CD to rebuild my motherboard, and flash the latest BIOS to it (1009).
I've installed a Tiger1 NB cooler to help with cooling, but it hardly seems to be heating up at all. Furthermore, my idle temperatures are barely over 30C. Just what could be causing this corruption? Could changing BIOS versions help? (I've heard many good things about 1010 beta and 1008 final).
This would really annoying me if for once the motherboard was the limit in my overclock, and not the CPU!
At 285mhz FSB, my computer is just fine. I can loop Prime95 100% stable for hours on end without errors, and temperatures stay very low (below 40C actually). However, once I push the FSB past roughly 288, the BIOS will become instantly corrupted upon reboot. I then need to use the ROM image on the driver CD to rebuild my motherboard, and flash the latest BIOS to it (1009).
I've installed a Tiger1 NB cooler to help with cooling, but it hardly seems to be heating up at all. Furthermore, my idle temperatures are barely over 30C. Just what could be causing this corruption? Could changing BIOS versions help? (I've heard many good things about 1010 beta and 1008 final).
This would really annoying me if for once the motherboard was the limit in my overclock, and not the CPU!