HELP!!!! What voltage is too high for a celeron 300a?

[KennyH]

I am having difficulty trying to get my celeron 300a to run stable at 450 in Unreal Tournament. Right now I have the voltage at 2.1 volts but it still is having problems. If anyone could help me out here I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks!

 

[lenjack]

I ran mine at 2.2 with no problem. Some folks have gone as high as 2.4, but that's living dangerously.

 

[TheShaman]

bp6,

My own personal rule is 2.2v. Because I like to break rules, however, I have gone to 2.3v. Good cooling is a necessity from 2.2+, IMHO. As lenjack pointed out, some folks have gone to 2.4v, but I personally think they are fsckin' nuts!

BTW, are you only having stability problems in UT? If so, I would look at RAM first. I had stability problems w/ UT on my 450A rig and it was due to not having enough RAM.

HTH

ts

 

[KennyH]

Thanks for the info guys. I appreciate it!

 

[Diffusion]

I have found the Unreal engine to be notoriously finiky about how it runs, I used to have a processor stable to 935, but UT wouldn't run with my pci/agp bus 1 mhz out of spec. I found it really annoying to have to clock down to 850mhz for LAN parties.

 

[1970]

A guy i now,use to run his Celron 300A on 2,7V without any problems.I guess then he had some
good cooling.