Asus P3v4x overclock....

[Quick6]

I got it to do 933. I was wondering could I go to 1ghz? I tried 133fsb got 933 (stable 7.0 x 133) tried (7.0 x 140 + 7.0 x 150 not stable) then tried (7.5 x 140 + 7.5 x 150 not stable). If i increase voltage wouldn't I lessen life of cpu?

here are more combos I tried.
(8 x 130 + 8.0 x 120 not stable)
(8.0 x 140 + 8.0 x 150 not stable)

i have not tried yet to change voltge cpu is @ normal 700mhz voltagefor Intel P3 700E cpu.
I usea MSI 6805 slotket.

 

[EvilDonnyboy]

a small increase in volatage wont hurt much. what is your 700E's default voltage?

 

[Quick6]

yes its @ the normal voltage I believe 4 i think. So will the life of the cpu lessesn? What way will life of cpu lessen?

 

[osage]

give it some more voltage. if you can get 933 stable @ default voltage it sounds like you've got a good chip.
you might want to put a small heatsink on the clock gen chip if its the ICS one, this will help with stability over 133Mhz. tons of tweaks for your mobo here P3V4X. good luck and enjoy.

 

[Quick6]

Thankx Alot very much needed !And this computer Tech told me just get a Tyan S8154 and 933 andthat's all? I think not....I went with the asus P3v4x.
Thanks

 

[OddOne]

I run a P3-700E at 1035 MHz (148 MHz FSB) on an Asus P3V4X, and it's stable as hell in everything. I've also spent months researching this board and its nuances, so my opinions and advice might be useful...

The P3V4X board is touchy about several things, the slotket in particular. The best slotkets for this particular board are the Asus S370-133 rev. B03 and the Asus S370-DL. Other slotkets tend to not overclock as well on this board, MSI's included. I've gone thorugh several, including the MSI, and the S370-133 gave me free run to post as high as 1100 MHz (160 MHz FSB) although my other hardware doesn't like the PCI bus being that high. (And yes, I am using aggressive cooling - my processor idles at 6-8 deg. C and hits 10 deg. C under load. Not bad for Peltier/water!)

If you get the P3-700 to run nicely at 933 MHz (133 MHz FSB) with the default 1.65v Vcore, odds are you'll need to increase the Vcore setting slightly to climb above that. Just don't go over 1.95v, and make sure you're using VERY good cooling. Since you're using a cB0 you might be able to reach as high as 980 MHz (140 MHz FSB) without anything but a good heatsink/fan. You might get into the GHz range with conventional air cooling, or you might need more aggressive cooling (water or Peltier/water) to reach that goal.

Also, if your P3V4X uses an ICS clock generator chip, you'll probably need to get some Artic Silver thermal epoxy and bond a heatsink to it, as these chips have overheating issues and when they overheat the board gets unstable.

One potentially major issue some folks have is the fact that WD drives are known to occasionally have serious sensitivities to PCI bus speeds. So back up your data as a precaution.

Finally, one fellow has discovered a hack to modify the P3V4X to fix a cold-boot issue it has with regard to high-end video cards. From your description of your computer you shouldn't be affected by it though.

O d d O n e

 

[Quick6]

Hi,
What what the thing about the vid cards just for the hell of it i want to know.
So I need to basically alter my mobo to get ghz?

 

[Sunny129]

I figure everyone is overlooking a very important typo in your original post, or i just dont know something that everyone else does...it says that you could not achieve stability with your P3 700E at 140 and 150 mHz fsb, so you left the fsb unchanged and tried mulipliers of 7.5 and 8.0. how is that possible when all intel CPUs have locked multipliers? i know better than to just assume everyone is wrong since the wide world of technology changes everyday, so whats going on that i dont understand?

 

[BlueSkyzz]

I thought the same thing Sunny129 when I read his post. I have a P3 700 cB0 and yes, it is mulitplier locked. There is no way he can change the multiplier, I think he is confusing himself with some other setting he is changing. Though I can't think what it could be.

 

[compuwiz1]

You can set the multiplier at 2x and it wont matter. It's gonna read from the CPU, which is locked at 7x. There is no way around it. The only option a P3 overclocker has for increasing MHz is FSB. You may need more voltage, but with that comes more heat. Good cooling is essential.

 

[Sunny129]

Well Quick6, we now have two posts other than my own that have pointed out that locked intel CPU mulptiplier issue, and i'm surprised nobody mentioned it b4 i did, as there were three people who failed to notice b4 i first posted here. you must be getting some setting confused with the multiplier. explain the settings in a bit more detail and maybe we can help you with your problem. as for the stability of a P3 700E, the fsb IS the only way to OC an intel CPU, and if it isnt stable @ 140 fsb then raise the voltage to 1.7v. i think 1.75v is the most you want to try b4 trying another solution - better cooling.

as for multipliers, i have heard of BIOS settings in which the multiplier can be changed, but just like Compuwiz1 said, rest assured that no matter what multiplier changes you make in the BIOS, the locked multiplier value of 7.0 will override the BIOS settings. there is currently no way to change the multiplier on ANY intel CPU.

 

[subhuman]

Try 1.75 or 1.85v. I use 1.8 to get 1008mhz, I have a good chip, but your chip is probably better if it does 933 at 1.65v, so I bet you could even hit 1050mhz @ 1.85v. I'd use at a minimum a Golden Orb though, if not a Alpha/GlobalWin or even something more.