4BDA2+ DDR Voltage @ 2.6V not OCing well

Do most people have to raise the default voltage from 2.6V by the jumper on the 4BDA(2+) to get their 1.6 or 1.8A processors to work @ 2.4Ghz with CAS 2 and fast settings?

I've got a stick of Corsair PC3000, running @ 1.7Vcore, Turbo, CAS 2, 7, 3, 3 at 2.4Ghz, and at the default 2.6V for the DDR.

Thanks,
Tyson

The cas setting is not important, more important is the clock of the ram. For example you get 172Mhz(DDR344) at cas2 but at cas 2.5 you get 201 Mhz(DDR402) with the same ram, which is a waaaaaay faster )
So put your ram at the slowest settings and get the max clock of it, you should also raise the voltage up to 2.8v if you want to hit DDR400 )

make sure your HD is an ata100 or 133. the hpt372 doesn't support ata 66 o lower. so if your hd is an ata 66/33 you have to place on the regular ide ports.

sorry, that was for another forum.

I have an epox 4bda2+ w/ P4 1.6a costa rica 1/25/2002 2x256mb kingmax ddr333, volcano 7+; my maximum o/c is [email protected] ddr200(1:1)temp 48c-57c but its not stable it occasionally hangs & cold booting. would you say that my cpu is a dud? would you recommend that I replace it or get a water cooled cooling system? or maybe change my board to asus p4b533-e/ -v or epox 4g4a+ or change my memory to samsung ddr333? coz i would to be able & o/c my 1.6a like the others to 2.4g or higher.

Yeah, get another cpu.... If you want to use 3:4 mem ratio, u should set the mem timings to 2.5-7-3-3 and the Vmem to 2.7 or 2.8v.

snicky said:

I have an epox 4bda2+ w/ P4 1.6a costa rica 1/25/2002 2x256mb kingmax ddr333, volcano 7+; my maximum o/c is [email protected] ddr200(1:1)temp 48c-57c but its not stable it occasionally hangs & cold booting. would you say that my cpu is a dud?

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Any CPU that O/C's 40% isn't a "dud". Contrary to some opinions, every 1.6A doesn't get to 2.4 GHz. Most get to right where you are, somewhere between 2.2 GHz and 2.3 GHz.

All that being said, your temps (if accurate) are too high for your CPU/core voltage/Heatsink combo. I'm running a 2.0A @ 2.6 GHz with the core at 1.85V using the Volcano 7+ and my temps are 35C idle and 47C max load. Take the heatsink off, remove all the compound, and add a thin layer of whatever Arctic Silver you can find. You should be running 10C cooler than you report. If you get the temps down, you can try for more by upping the core to 1.85V.

actually i was using artic silverII. on my first application of the compound using my default hsf it was lower around 44C idle-50C load but after a awhile the idle temp just increased dont know what made it happen. so cleaned up & reapply the compound but the temp was same. so i bought a volcano thinking it would reduce the temp but no success also. my room temp is around 32-35C though. also i cant get my cpu to run at 3:4 ratio on 2.24, its running on 1:1(ddr200). how thick should the compound be applied? would water cooling help?