Athlon XP 2500+

[DarkDrake]

I recently purchased a 2500+, I have it running at a 3200+ with a 400Mhz FSB. Currently my processor temp. is 37c, when I run games at this FSB setting after about 2 minutes they crash to the desktop. I have increased the voltage from 1.6 to 1.7 not knowing if this will solve the problem. Anyone know whats going on?

 

[Ionizer86]

What board do you have? Different boards read the temperature gauge differently.

You may want to stress test your system with things than games, such as using Sisoft Sandra or even SETI (My sig has a link on how to crunch SETI). Something maybe unstable, but we don't know what at teh moment. It's probably not the CPU since raising the voltage didn't help.

Try raising the voltage of hte chipset and ram slightly or try raising the values on the memory timings. Report back with what you find.

 

[DarkDrake]

Hey, I had sandra and besides the benchmarks being freaking amazing, im having no problems.. and I ran the burn in test 30 times in a row with no lock up, my board is a super uber ABIT NF7-S. I havent tested it with the higher CPU voltage settings but I wiill, followed by chipset and RAM.

 

[DarkDrake]

Oh BTW, im using the hardware monitor that came with my board, im sure it working properly.. (Hardware Doctor)

 

[The Sauce]

Might be your memory. Run memtest86.

 

[Davegod]

what games and are they stable with stock clock?

 

[Fern]

Use memtest86 and Prime95 to ensure your OC is stable. Both proggies are free downloads. Use memtest86 first, it's a bootable floppy, just boot right to it and run for at 1-3 hours. It'll tell you whether your ram is ok or not (if not, may need more voltage or relaxed timings). If your ram passes memtest86, go on to Prime95 to check the cpu and see if it can pass for at least 12 hrs (if it fails you'll need more vcore, but keep an eye on the temps).

If both of those are OK it indicates a stable OC and the problem likely lies elsewhere.

Good Luck

 

[JBT]

You can actually get memtest on CD now it is MUCH better than the floppy way...

 

[Thoreau]

Definitely check into those temps. I just got a 2500+ yesterday and have it overclocked at 2.2ghz right now and it's sitting at a balmy 46c (with SETI running of course.) BTW, what is the default clock speed of a 3200+ anyway? Didn't see that proc listed on newegg.