Help, let me hit that 1.5GHz mark!!!

[XONE]

Hey All.

I have a ThunderBird AXIA Y 1.33GHz @ 1.466 266.
I want to beat that 1.5GHz mark!

Here are the specs:
Thunderbird 1.33GHz AXIA Y 266
Crucial PC2100 DDR SDRAM 256mb ECC
IWILL KA266-R
FOP38

I used artic silver, I realized I wasn't suppose to use my finger *o well, wait till I get my new hsf* , and my fop38 can not handle it so I will need a better HSF.

Right now the VCORE is 1.85, VMEM is 2.7
133x11

I have tried
133*11.5 (Restarts after the bios screen)
136*11 (Gives many errors)

HELP.
Please dont post (reapply artic silver or buy a better hsf)
Would take suggestions for what type of HSF.

 

[heffe734]

Shouldn't the AXIA Y's 1.33 hit higher than that...i saw numerous ppl post that Y's were hitting even 1600 with ease. Good question...i'm trying to order AXIA y 1.33 too...but this is kinda scaring me.

 

[XONE]

its probably because I used my finger to apply the artic silver.

 

[heffe734]

My friend applied some for me...and he used his finger too...only with a plastic bag over it...yikes...did u scrape off the paste on your HSF?

 

[XONE]

It was a used FOP38, it worned down the pad.

 

[Ajay]

If you want 1.5GHz+ with air cooling you best bets are the Swiftech MC462-A or the Millenium Glaciator.

Good luck,
-AJ

 

[Ajay]

Once you get a better HSF (you need good case cooling too) you'll probably want to bump up your vcore setting. You may want to try AMDMB's IWill Forum and Overclockers.com for more advice.

-AJ

 

[Morjo]

Well I don't think the FOP38 HS will let you put an 80mm fan extender on it. But if you can an 80mm fan should get you there IMHO.

 

[MooShoe]

Hmmm... I have the same set up as you and am comfortably sitting at 1504 (11x137) I've run mine at 11x140 for 1540, but I have a crappy HSF and the temps were a bit warm for me... Even now, I idle at about 45c. With an FOP38, I would think you wouldn't have any problems at all hitting 1500...

Even though you're using an old FOP38, you still need to clean off the thermal goop that comes stock on it. I'd take your HSF off and clean both it and the CPU core off and reapply the arctic silver sparingly.

By the way, my set up is as follows...

AXIA 1.33 Y... Week 12 I think
KA266 Non raid
512 mb Crucial DDR266
SB Live! 5.1 X-Gamer
Leadtek GF2 GTS
IBM 75GXP 30 gig

 

[WarCon]

Yeah you need to make sure all that pad comes off, overclocks are very temperature sensitive and if your thermal interface to your heatsink is crap (i.e. not flat because of little pockets of pad and fingerprints in the interface material ...etc.) then your just not going to make your 1.5ghz. Overclocking at these speeds is not something you can just do lightly.

If you lapped your FOP (trust me lapping sounds like alot of work....it is) and applied ASII according to the directions on the ASII website, your temps would drop significantly. Probably enough to stabilize your overclock significantly and allow you to reach 1.5ghz. By the way, lapping serves two purposes. It makes the heatsink flat which improves your thermal interface and it takes the microgrooves that are full of your pad off so they can be filled with a better interface (ASII).

Its also possible that your 1.33 may not make it, it might be a binned processor when they was sorting for 1.4ghz T-birds that are coming out very soon.