2.53 vcore

I have a 2.53 northwood in my rig. My vcore is about 1.72 under full load and around 1.8 idle. Is it safe to go higher vcore if my temps are good?

Code Name Northwood
Specification Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.53GHz
Family / Model / Stepping F 2 4
Extended Family / Model 0 0
Brand ID 9
Package mPGA-478
Core Stepping B0
Technology 0.13 µ
Supported Instructions Sets MMX, SSE, SSE2
CPU Clock Speed 3097.1 MHz
Clock multiplier x 19.0
Front Side Bus Frequency 163.0 MHz
Bus Speed 652.0 MHz
L1 Data Cache 8 KBytes, 4-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L1 Trace Cache 12 Kµops, 8-way set associative
L2 Cache 512 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L2 Speed 3097.1 MHz (Full)
L2 Location On Chip
L2 Data Prefetch Logic yes
L2 Bus Width 256 bits



Mainboard and chipset
Motherboard manufacturer ASUSTeK Computer INC.
Motherboard model P4G8X, REV 1.xx
BIOS vendor Award Software, Inc.
BIOS revision ASUS P4G8X ACPI BIOS Revision 1006
BIOS release date 06/03/2003
Chipset Intel E7205 rev. B0
Southbridge Intel 82801DB (ICH4) rev. B0
Sensor chip Asus ASB100

AGP Status enabled, rev. 3.0
AGP Data Transfert Rate 4x
AGP Side Band Addressing supported, enabled
AGP Aperture Size 64 MBytes



Memory
DRAM Type DDR-SDRAM
DRAM Size 512 MBytes
DRAM Frequency 163.0 MHz
FSB DRAM 1:1
CAS# Latency 2.5 clocks
RAS# to CAS# 3 clocks
RAS# Precharge 3 clocks
Cycle Time (TRAS) 7 clocks
DRAM Idle Timer 16 clocks
# of memory modules 2
Module 0 Kingston DDR-SDRAM PC2700 - 256 MBytes
Module 1 Kingston DDR-SDRAM PC2700 - 256 MBytes



Software
Windows version Microsoft Windows 2000 Workstation Service Pack 4 (Build 2195)

that souds pretty hi, in fact i wouldnt go over 1.7 1.75 as the absolute max. it just not worth the extra 50 or so mhz to burn the chip imo...

I read somewhere that the voltage readouts in windows are not supposed to be accurate and that the bios is. is this true?

mmm idk about that, do you use mbm5 and cpuz to monitor vcore? usually those are more accurate than the bios.

the only real accurate way is to get out your multimeter.

Your vcore is a little high. I cetainly would not go higher. In fact, I'd back off a tad if I were you.

threw my 2.53 back in just to see what it would do......3.2Ghz on 1.6vcore....unstable though and the p4p800 dlx overvolts....backed it down to 3.1 and worked like a champ....shouldnt need to bump it as high as you did

I have instability problems if I don't keep the vcore up there.