I CAN OVERCLOCK

chrispystix

chrispystix

chrispystix

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I have been reading for ages but never quite got my head around it. Tonight I raised FSB to 230 on my Northwood 2.6 and have a 3ghz chip.

I am very proud!

respect to Custom PC mag and this site............
 
chrispystix said:
I have been reading for ages but never quite got my head around it. Tonight I raised FSB to 230 on my Northwood 2.6 and have a 3ghz chip.

I am very proud!

respect to Custom PC mag and this site............
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Well done you. I too share that warm fuzzy feeling and thank the lord I didn't blow notes on the Q8650:)
 
chrispystix said:
I have been reading for ages but never quite got my head around it. Tonight I raised FSB to 230 on my Northwood 2.6 and have a 3ghz chip.

I am very proud!

respect to Custom PC mag and this site............
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Custom PC mag? pfft. I am glad this site filled u in with the holes and corrections.

Now don't let it happen again!
 
lol - Custom pc is a good toilet read but I would be carefull regarding the validity of some of the advice they give.

I hope that now you have got your overclock to work you can concentrate on your caps lock.;)
 
Its up to 241 and still going without touching vcore.....Although 242 raises the ram over 400 and that worries me a little.....So what shall I do? Keep going and see if I can start the Nov 5th celebrations early or stop now while I feel proud enough to shout (hence caps lock, if you had not guessed!!:p
 
chrispystix said:
I have been reading for ages but never quite got my head around it. Tonight I raised FSB to 230 on my Northwood 2.6 and have a 3ghz chip.

I am very proud!

respect to Custom PC mag and this site............
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Nice one :) It should go a bit higher as well. I remember having a 2.4 Northwood @ 3.3 :D
 
Are you using a custom cooler? If so which one? I have an old p4 2.6 northwood back at home with stock and i was wondering if i could push it a bit further without the need for a new cooler
 
Custom at the mo as it came with the second hand job lot. Since I still havent touched the vcore I assume temp is not really an issue?? Or is that dumb.

Up to 3.2 now at 245. The Ram is now pushing 405 so is over spec. If I push it more will I need to play with latency or voltage?
 
I guess so... What mobo do you have? My old one is a 865PE, with DDR400

Did those old mobos have memory dividers? If not how come and at 200+ its not over specced? Did you benchmark the thing? is it stable? Whats the difference compared to your older clock?
 
chrispystix said:
Custom at the mo as it came with the second hand job lot. Since I still havent touched the vcore I assume temp is not really an issue?? Or is that dumb.
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Get coretemp 0.95.4 (i think that the latest) and make sure your temps don't go too high. I have an amd 3700 @ 2.8 and that doesn't go above 55oC (on load), so at a guess I'd say keep temps below 60oC (on load) if you can. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.

It's better to be safe than sorry.
 
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