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- Oct 23, 2004
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Hey guys.
I have a Mobile Barton 2500+. It lives in an Asus a7n8x NF2. I had Corsair Value Select PC3200. For several months I have had it overclocked 12.5x200 (2.5 ghz) My temps were fine. Well.. My CPU socket temp was always what it should have been.. I topped out around 50 I believe.. My diode temp, however, was reading incorectly. It would rapidly fluctuate (IE: 15 degree change in a matter of seconds). According to the diode, I was rock solid prime stable at somewhere between 60-72 degrees celcius :-]
I just bought new ram so I can get a higher overclock. I am watercooling once I finish building a case, so I want to be prepared. Since I have not finished the case I wanted to see what my headroom would be like. I figured that I would do some testing with a low multiplier, and see where my front side bus could be. When I get water, I could bump the multiplier back up, and keep the high fsb.
I have to be doing something wrong, because I am very disappointed with my testing results.
First, I tried 12.5x200, to make sure it booted correctly. Primed on the memoryish test for like 15 minutes to make sure my ram worked. Worked like a charm. Then I tried 9x215ish. Booted to windows fine, but I didn't prime.
Tried 9x225. Wouldn't post.
Tried a few things, landed on 11x215. This is about 2.35ghz. Temperatures were fine. Failed prime in 4 minutes.
My AGP was locked at 66, my VCore was 1.825 (where it was stable at 2.5ghz) my ram was 2.8v, timings were set to the loose settings.
The only thing is that I havent updated my bios.. I'm not sure if it needs it or not, but I don't have a floppy drive, and when I couldn't find the in os updater a few months ago, I gave up.
Anyone know why I am having trouble?
I have a Mobile Barton 2500+. It lives in an Asus a7n8x NF2. I had Corsair Value Select PC3200. For several months I have had it overclocked 12.5x200 (2.5 ghz) My temps were fine. Well.. My CPU socket temp was always what it should have been.. I topped out around 50 I believe.. My diode temp, however, was reading incorectly. It would rapidly fluctuate (IE: 15 degree change in a matter of seconds). According to the diode, I was rock solid prime stable at somewhere between 60-72 degrees celcius :-]
I just bought new ram so I can get a higher overclock. I am watercooling once I finish building a case, so I want to be prepared. Since I have not finished the case I wanted to see what my headroom would be like. I figured that I would do some testing with a low multiplier, and see where my front side bus could be. When I get water, I could bump the multiplier back up, and keep the high fsb.
I have to be doing something wrong, because I am very disappointed with my testing results.
First, I tried 12.5x200, to make sure it booted correctly. Primed on the memoryish test for like 15 minutes to make sure my ram worked. Worked like a charm. Then I tried 9x215ish. Booted to windows fine, but I didn't prime.
Tried 9x225. Wouldn't post.
Tried a few things, landed on 11x215. This is about 2.35ghz. Temperatures were fine. Failed prime in 4 minutes.
My AGP was locked at 66, my VCore was 1.825 (where it was stable at 2.5ghz) my ram was 2.8v, timings were set to the loose settings.
The only thing is that I havent updated my bios.. I'm not sure if it needs it or not, but I don't have a floppy drive, and when I couldn't find the in os updater a few months ago, I gave up.
Anyone know why I am having trouble?
