Droop Problem?: P4 2.4C AI7 Mobo

[stealthrs]

Does anyone know anything about this problem? Could you explain it a little?

I just bought a 2.4C P4 SL6Z3 processor that I'm going to install pretty soon and my friend said that the "droop problem" (something about overclocking and voltage) will require some soldering to fix...

He says that I could possibly get another 15MHz FSB out of it too... I have a AI7 (Abit) motherbord and my target is 3.4GHz (I have BH5 ram to help out getting there 🙂)

Anyone know anything about this problem? and is the soldering easy for an experienced solder'er'?

Thanks -T

(P.S.: I have a 2.4C for sale 🙂)

 

[maxcom]

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[Shimmishim]

Originally posted by: stealthrs
Does anyone know anything about this problem? Could you explain it a little?

I just bought a 2.4C P4 SL6Z3 processor that I'm going to install pretty soon and my friend said that the "droop problem" (something about overclocking and voltage) will require some soldering to fix...

He says that I could possibly get another 15MHz FSB out of it too... I have a AI7 (Abit) motherbord and my target is 3.4GHz (I have BH5 ram to help out getting there 🙂)

Anyone know anything about this problem? and is the soldering easy for an experienced solder'er'?

Thanks --T
(P.S.: I have a 2.4C for sale 🙂)

hmm... 2.4 to 3.4 is... what fsb?

are you planning on using a divider for the bh-5?

i hope so. or else you will need to give it more juice. 3.4 is somewhere in the neighborhood of 270ish fsb i believe... no bh-5 will run 270 mhz without 3.7-3.9 volts which i don't think you'd want to do anyway.

 

[TStep]

I have owned the exact setup as you:

Abit AI7
Mushkin PC3200 Level II
P4 2.4C (both SL6WF and SL6Z3) topped off w/ SP94 and 35cfm fan
Antec 430, ATI 9800, WD800JB, DVDRW, couple of fans

My thoughts: AI7 is pretty good. It has vDimm to 3.2V to squeeze the mushkin, but I never really needed to. On my MO, I could get up around 3.4. This required fsb=283, DDR at 5:4 ratio for 226. The Mushkin could do 226 @ 2-2-2-6 on 2.8v easily for me. One thing I had to do go to the PAT setting and disable it by setting auto-normal-auto-disable-disable. Otherwise anything over fsb=255 was a no go.

I will say this though, the couple of IC7 boards I've gone through were able to take the cpu higher than the AI7. Nothing significant, but a few more on the fsb stabily. The best was an IC7G that would post and boot into windows at fsb=307 were the AI7 would only do the same in the 290s. But like I said, they both ran stabily around 3.4.

As far as voltage droop, I've never experienced anything significant. The board undervolts a little, but that is easy enough to compensate for. Good Luck.