Crappy Socket A sempron!!

[Skeith]

I have been screwing around overclocking my sempron for the longest while. At first I was only able to reach 2016Mhz @ 1.808 Vcore. Its the 2500+ with a stock of 1743Mhz @ 1.6vcore

I put some small heatsinks I cut up on my NF7S mosfets with AS apoxy and was able to hit 2104Mhz with a cost of raising the Vcore .1v (bloody hell!)
Anything lower than 1.9v and its unstable.

My FSB is 200 for a memory of 400.
My memory is rated 400 so I should still be able to pull a bit more out of it.

The cpu is cooled with the TT Big Typhoon load at around 48*C (45*C before 1.9v) and idle at 38*C (35*C beofore 1.9v).

I am running the tai pan bios on my NF7Sv2 and have the CPU interface option enabled.

Will this chip take 2v or should I back off? I was going to upgrade this christmas but am getting a laptop instead.

I might buy a water cooling kit and see what I can do with that But im not sure. Im debating either a 400GB Hdd, water cooling or a nice case.

 

[freakdiablo]

I wouldnt risk it. Looks like a bad overclocking chip, and probably not worth blowing it trying to get another 50mhz or so.

 

[TollhouseFrank]

too bad man. i got a socket A sempron with ddr 333 that i can crank up to 220 FSB. you musta got a bad binning on that chip.

 

[Skeith]

Yeah just as i figured.
Ive read about people getting that chip up to 2400Mhz or more with a little bit more than stock voltage. Thats why I bought it. Oh well. Maybe Ill see if I can get a mobile athlon for cheap.

 

[Angry]

Your aldy at 1.9v so There is really no use going to watercooling unless you pick up a mobile. I can pump 2.3v through my barton and it wont pass 2500mhz stable... Thats almost becomes to much for my watercooling.

 

[Clockwork_Apple]

My Barton won't budge past 192fsb and still be stable, I've just come to accept that it's 'The worst Barton in existence'™

 

[~(o)-(0)~]

I had my 2500 barton at 2.32 on just a bit more than stock voltage, I really regret trading that system