1.7 vcore too much?

[TorinoGT24]

Hey guys,

I'm overclocking my celeron, and I was wondering if 1.7 volts was too much. It is a northwood core that runs at 1.525 stock voltage. Any opinions/suggestions would be great.

-Collin-

 

[MDE]

1.7V is a bit much for a P4\Celeron. I wouldn't go 0.15V over stock to be safe. I'd let someone more experienced with P4s answer before you decide.

 

[Nebor]

That's too much.

 

[modedepe]

I wouldn't permanently keep it at that voltage..

 

[TorinoGT24]

Hmm....ok. I guess this thing just doesn't want to do 3ghz. It is a 2.2 that runs perfectly at 2.9, but not 3ghz. Oh well, can't have your cake and eat it too. Basically I just wanted to tell my friends I have a 3 ghz processor.... 🙂 Thanks

 

[Nebor]

Originally posted by: TorinoGT24
Hmm....ok. I guess this thing just doesn't want to do 3ghz. It is a 2.2 that runs perfectly at 2.9, but not 3ghz. Oh well, can't have your cake and eat it too. Basically I just wanted to tell my friends I have a 3 ghz processor.... 🙂 Thanks

There ya go

 

[InlineFive]

Originally posted by: MonkeyDriveExpress
1.7V is a bit much for a P4\Celeron. I wouldn't go 0.15V over stock to be safe. I'd let someone more experienced with P4s answer before you decide.

Good to know!

If you feed too much voltage to a Intel chip you can have it suddenly die someday in the future.

 

[TorinoGT24]

 

[TorinoGT24]

Thanks for the link...but there is a pretty big difference between 265$ and 60$, wouldn't you say?