jiffylube1024
Diamond Member
As the ongoing saga of my 1.8A overclocking continues (I've had it at 2.25 GHz, 1.60V set in bios for about 7 months now), I am getting greedy with my overclocking. I've always thought it could go higher, and wanted to push it higher but it never seemed to work when I tried it. It turns out my chip *might* be better than I thought. Yesterday, I booted into Windows @ 1.70V at both 2.4 GHz and 2.53 Ghz, but 3dmark 2k1 failed both times (and I didn't even bother running anything more stressful after that). I figure if it got into Windows at 2.53 Ghz and even ran some of the 3dmark test ok, it should be fine at 2.4 Ghz ... stupid me!
Anyways, I tried today and it gives me the usual BS Windows XP protection error when I try to boot at 1.65Vcore or above (set in bios, reads as 1.62V or so in the monitoring section of the bios). This is at the exact same 2.25 GHz speed that works fine otherwise! Why is it that my chip doesn't want to run stably at 1.65V or above, when many others are running 1.7V + . The cutoff for frying a Northwood P4 seems to be about 1.75V or so, which I'm well below.
My system specs are as follows: A P4 1.8A (about 8 months old, roughly), ASUS P4B266, 512MB PC2100 Crucial DDR.
Anyways, I tried today and it gives me the usual BS Windows XP protection error when I try to boot at 1.65Vcore or above (set in bios, reads as 1.62V or so in the monitoring section of the bios). This is at the exact same 2.25 GHz speed that works fine otherwise! Why is it that my chip doesn't want to run stably at 1.65V or above, when many others are running 1.7V + . The cutoff for frying a Northwood P4 seems to be about 1.75V or so, which I'm well below.
My system specs are as follows: A P4 1.8A (about 8 months old, roughly), ASUS P4B266, 512MB PC2100 Crucial DDR.
