Woeful overclock of doom...

[Goodberry]

I think I have finally found my maximum stable overclock. 213 X 11.

I am a victim of my own hardware.

Just one question... at these frankly pitiful settings, what sort of temps/voltages should I expect? My comp crashed with the CPU at 50 C, I have just put the fan on maximum so I think it might be stable with that small amount of extra cooling. My RAM is at 2.7 V and my CPU is at 1.8 V.

Is it worth dropping the overclock just because of potential damage caused by these voltages?



Why did I not buy a 2600+ mobile, o why did I have to naively assume that the fastest speed comes from the fastest rated processor...

 

[Drec]

50C is kinda warm nothing to worry about though 1.8v..in a barton im pressuming is nothing alot of people pump 2.2v+ into those suckers....2.7 on the ram is nothing alot of people put 3.3v+ if its good ram, you got nothing to worry about if ir temps r good. what heatsink you got on it?

thats only a 143mhz OC, try lowering the vcore id think it would be able to boot there on stock vcore.

 

[Goodberry]

The CPU heatsink is the Coolermaster Jet 7. Looks like a jet engine, sounds like a jet engine.

I haven't tried lowering Vcore yet, so I might try.

**Before I accidentally offend anyone's overclock, I don't mean that 213 X 11 is bad in general, I mean that it is bad for a chip that runs at 200 X 11 stock.

Also, stability test, I just ran 3d mark 03. 5118 3d marks. Whoop-de-do. My X800 XT will arrive soon though

 

[Drec]

well 3dmark has little to do with cpu and alot to do with video card, and thats a measly overclock that should run on 1.65 - 1.7vcore. and 3200+ are defeinatly not the best for OCing. but a small overclock is better then no overclock at all.

 

[Goodberry]

You were right... it is OK at Vcore 1.65.

Don't call my overclock measly or I shall cry :'(

It is just... challenged. That's all.

 

[Yuriman]

I think if its stable at 1.65v then likely yout ram is holding you back. try 2.9v and loosen the timings up to 3-4-4-8 and see how high you can go.

 

[Goodberry]

The highest voltage RAM setting it will let me have is 2.8...

Also, changing the CAS latency to 3? I was under the impression that this setting made a big impact on performance.

P.S. overheating solved, lowering the Vcore back down brought the CPU down to 40 idle, 45 load