1.4 Tbird, 1.4 Athlon XP, overclocking, and voltage

[Furor]

Well..now I've got a 1.4 Thunderbird, and a Athlon XP 1600+ ..The athlon XP is still locked, and the thunderbird is unlocked..I can push the athlon xp up to 150FSB(x10.5) before it craps out, which is about 1570 mhz..and I can run my 1.4 thunderbird around any combo, but it stops again near 1570 mhz ..I know the FSB on the pci/agp/ide/etc with the athlon xp is not a problem with overclocking, because I can run my thunderbird at 163 before it craps out after a day. So, I've done the voltage mod and am able to give 2.02vcore to each cpu, but they won't go any farther..they run the same at 2.02 as they do at 1.75!

I'm thinking it's not the CPU anymore, and it's not cooling..is it possible it's my motherboard, or just two not-very-overclockable chips? I'm thinking about unlocking the athlon xp..but i'm not even sure it will help since it can't get past 150 fsb stable.

What do you guys think I should do? If I don't unlock it, i'll end up running it at 150x10.5(1570) CL2, or I can run my thunderbird @ 163x9.5(1550) CL3..

i'm confused..going to try more to push up the FSB with the athlon xp.

 

[MoFunk]

Hmm. 170Mhz is nothing to complain about. I was at this for a while but was not stable. Backed it down to 1544. I woud be happy with that.

 

[Wind]

FSB holding bacj could be due to a lot of reasons. RAM, PCI components, PSU, Bios settings, all those voltages & so forth. It is not only ltd to cooling & the CPU.

150-155 FSB seems to be the general settings tht most ppl in AT is doing.

 

[Furor]

I guess I made it unclear..FSB of any other component isn't the problem..I can run my FSB all week at 163 with my Thunderbird..I went to radio shack today to get a conductive pen and they didn't have any..any idea where else they are sold?