FC-PGA stuck at 1125

[Marine]

Appears to be a direct function of heat. At default (1000/133/1.7) I can run Prime95 all day at 42C/107F. If I bump it up to 1125 (150/1.8) and run Prime95, it climbs quickly to 45C/113F and soon crashes. How can just five or six degrees F make such a difference?

 

[V]

An Arctic cooler that I bought lowered my celly2 temp down 8c from the retail heatsink. The result was 650mhz(approx) to 850mhz. Temp can make a real difference. Use an Alpha PAL6035 and you will see better results.

 

[Tates]

Heat and static electricty are your enemy. Like V said, a good quality heatsink will help a bunch.

 

[xtech]

You gotta remember that at 1125MHz you are at the max of the PIII core. Also how does the system run besides Prime95? I have seen way to many systems run all day long and stressed beyond belief and Prime95 still errors out... A better test IMO is Hot CPU test, you can download it at http://www.opusware.net/hotcpu.exe.. Give that a try and if that fails then you will have stability problems, otherwise you are good to go!

Emil Kacperski
emil@atrivo.com