I built a pc in december consisting of a xp2500+ (locked :/), nf7-s v2, mushkin lvl 2 pc3200, 9800pro, and a fortron 530w psu. The highest 100 percent stable i can get is around 11x219. I can however boot into windows and run some programs up to 11x240 (after 240 i can only get to bios but not windows).
Heat is not a problem as i have an sp97 (with as5) with a 92mm tornado on it, another tornado in the side panel, and 4 tt sf2's in front and back. Idling at 11x240 i was getting 35/19 cpu/case. What angers me is that on stock cooling i could get prime stable at 11x217 with terrible temps (54 C load). It was 100 percent stable nonetheless. Investing about $100 in MUCH better cooling only yeilded me a 22 mhz gain, not to mention the insane amount of noise that came with it.
I have tried everything. I ran the vcore up to 2.1, maxed the voltages for the chipset and ram, changed my timings on the ram, even snagged some adata pc4200. No matter what i did i couldn't get prime stable over 11x219.
Is it common to get this big a difference between your highest possible oc and the highest STABLE oc, or have i overlooked something?? It is almost a 300 mhz (12%) difference.
Heat is not a problem as i have an sp97 (with as5) with a 92mm tornado on it, another tornado in the side panel, and 4 tt sf2's in front and back. Idling at 11x240 i was getting 35/19 cpu/case. What angers me is that on stock cooling i could get prime stable at 11x217 with terrible temps (54 C load). It was 100 percent stable nonetheless. Investing about $100 in MUCH better cooling only yeilded me a 22 mhz gain, not to mention the insane amount of noise that came with it.
I have tried everything. I ran the vcore up to 2.1, maxed the voltages for the chipset and ram, changed my timings on the ram, even snagged some adata pc4200. No matter what i did i couldn't get prime stable over 11x219.
Is it common to get this big a difference between your highest possible oc and the highest STABLE oc, or have i overlooked something?? It is almost a 300 mhz (12%) difference.