4000+ overclocking Diary

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Well it's saturday morning and i'm bored.. So I think i'll overclock my 4000+ that I bought a few weeks ago to go in my second machine.
It's sitting in an Asrock Dual Sata board, and is paired with 1GB Kingston DDR400 ram at 2.5-3-3-7 2T timings. Video is handled by a Galaxy 7600GT Extreme Edition 256MB (one with the zalman fan as standard).
I just stuck 4 80mm low speed low noise fans on the front of the case, and 2 on the back. And it already had one on the side window.. so that's 7 80mm fans!!!
Artic Freezer 64 is cooling the CPU and power is being provided by an FSP 500W PSU.
Ok overclocking.
In bios I did the usual.. locked the PCI-E frequency to 100, turned off cool n quiet etc... left the CPU voltage at a stock of 1.35V.
Straight in there with 240FSBx12 to give 2880MHz.. CPU-Z is saying my memory is running at 160MHz, so it's obiously not running the correct divider... and CPU-Z also reports my ram as DDR2 lol (version 1.36) says divider is CPU/18
Ran prime on it while i had breakfast and a shower... Came back, it was still running fine, and core temp was reading the CPU temp as 35/36C. It was idleing at 26/27C in windows... must be with all that air going through the case! Everest and speedfan are also both reporting similar temps, give or take a degree.
I'm away to try 245x12... see how far that gets me.
Oh the HTT is reporting as 960MHz in cpuz, i have it set to auto in bios.
It's also gone from doing a 39 second 1MB PI to 35sec... the memory must definately be letting it down, being value stuff.
Back soon (hopefully) :D
 
3000MHz at stock volts!

OK that's 250x12 now 3000MHz.. the magical 3 gig mark... i've never been there before!!
I know it's not primed to test for stability yet, but i'm just seeing how far I can go before either basic stability or temperature becomes a worry.
Gonna find the point where it either BSOD's or fails to boot then work my way back from there.
Here's a wee screenie of running Super PI 4mb test, just over a minute into it.. showing temps and CPUz

 
Very nice.


Im considering swapped my X2 4400 which is at 2805, for one of these 4000+ Chips, if it does over 3Ghz it might be worth it for games :)
 
3122MHz now priming to test stability.

ok an update..
Tried 260x12 = 3122MHz... Didn't like it.. blue screen... ok.... so i upped the vcore from 1.35 to 1.4 (asrock max) and it booted fine.
It now PI's in 30seconds dead... thats quicker than my [email protected]!!!
I've ran out of time now so i'm gonna leave it priming all day, hopefully it's still alive when I get home later.
Oh btw Coretemp is sitting at around 42C running PI now.

That's a 30% overclock on an asrock dual board!!! non volt modded! im pleased with that.
 
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3.2GHz is too much

I upped the FSB to 266 trying to get a nice round 3.2 instead of 3.122 it posted but reset upon trying to load windows.
Reset it, went into bios, but when i went to lower the FSB a little BIOS froze!!
Had to reset the bios via jumper.
left it at 260x12 again 3122 and it's priming as we speak.
 
Nice, I seen one of those 4000+ Mobile chips on a well known site for Socket 754, they're meant to be good Overclockers. Might get one, it's pretty cheap :\
 
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