Think I hurt my Tbred b 2100+

[Zazuk]

Think I hurt my Tbred b 2100+, I was able to run it at 2340mhz with 1.75 vcore. I got a new main board NF7-S which allows you to really push the vcore. I have water cooling so I had some fun pushing it up to 2500mhz with a 2.0 vcore it was rock solid I ran it that way for about 3 to 4 weeks with no problems. Then just the other night I started having problems it was starting to become unstable, I tried running prime95 it would crash almost right away, I dropped down to 2340mhz at 1.75 but still was unstable, I have to bump the vcore up to 1.825 to make it stable, I'm thinking I broke one of my horses legs and that I should put it to sleep...

I was kind of wanting to play with a Barton 2500+ anyways...

any thoughts?

 

[Gautam]

Damn. It does look like the voltage hurt it. This serves as proof that T-Breds really don't like voltage. At least it isn't dead...

 

[Josebmw]

Same here. When I got my 2400+, it could do 2340 Mhz @ 1.8v, and now, even at 1.85v, It doesnt like anything above 2250 Mhz with watercooling regardless of the voltage.

 

[Gautam]

I've backed down to 2.3 because of the summer weather, and now it looks like great move that I did. This definitely serves as a caution against using high voltages. And these are both DUT3C's. DLT3C's tend to hate voltages even more. Sorry it had to turn out this way for you guys .

 

[Zazuk]

Found my problem.... I had added some more memory.... It passed memtest 3.0 however when running prime 95 it would cause it to error out. I slowed down the memory timing and I'm back up at 2500mhz with 2.0 core voltage.

I found this out after I orders a new 1700+ from ExcaliberPC, which I should getting tomorrow or thursday.

 

[c627627]

I've asked this before, hopefully someone will reply this time.

Are you not only supposed to push Vcore to 2.0 V briefly when benchmarking. I thought 2.0 V kills CPUs if used extensively and that's why 1.8x is the top safe Vcore.

 

[Josebmw]

If you have promethia cooling or comparable, then it probably wont be damaged, but either way, if you use 2.0v and it's stable, the processor will have a shorter life..

 

[Zazuk]

It is water cooled and does not get over 45C under load.

 

[JerkasaurusRex]

How much shorter will its life be if you use 2.0v? How long will its life be? Instead of living like 7 years will it live like 3 or 4 years? If it only live 3 or 4 years than by them its time to upgrade anyway.

 

[tediber]

as long as it doesn't burn .... it'll probably live longer than you care to own it