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How many have fried their northys?

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Has anyone fried their northwood p4. If so at what speed and voltage. What kind of setup and how did it go out? 1.6A , 1.8a, etc.
I'm curious cuz of the posts at MO. Seems to happen at 1.85+ volts. All the ocing done here it makes sense that someone ruined their cpu.
Thanks,
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This could be an interesting thread 😉 I Have Not fried mine, but run it daily at 1.82v, with no ill effects.
 
BIg lar the question is how long have you been running at 1.82V.

I know Duvie and thugs have damaged their 1.8A s buy running above 1.7v for too long now they cant overclock them as well.
 
I killed (still runs but errors even at default speed and 1.7vcore) my 1.6A. I was running it at 1.85vcore (topped at 1.9 no load, and dropped to 1.77 full load). I thought it would be ok because I was watercooling. My 1.8A is running at 1.7vcore and won't go any higher..........😀
 
Didn't fry it like and amd athlon, but it started to be an underachiever.....It was at 1.83v actual as reported by pcprobe on the asus mobo...

I have seen that difference form 1.65 or 1.7v to 1.8v is a small jump in vcore 4-5fsb max...I don't think it is worth it.....


I run 1.71v now with my rig listed but I am working on getting it to run at 2.64ghz with 440mhz ddr....If I can I can run that at 1.64v and be about even with system listed as my rig...


Over 1.8v may just be a mater of time....Only time will tell how long +1.75v cpu live as well...Maybe in another 4-6 months will start getting some good results...
 
so is the max vcore on the .13 micron P4's 1.7 or 1.75v...and for us nonintel peoples is the default 1.5v
 
Default Northy (or Woody 😉) voltage is 1.5v. And I'm thinking max is around 1.75v depending upon actual voltage under load, etc.

And my 1.6A has been running at 2.56Ghz for two days and is not fried yet 😀
 
My 1.8A works fine @ 2.25 GHz, 1.60v (1.57 max reported by ASUSprobe and MBM5) but if I set it to even 1.65V in the bios or above it doesn't get into Win XP without errors (at the same speed even)! My CPU is 6-8 months old (not one of the new, great o/cing 1.8A's)...
 
Running mine at 1.6 in the bios, though in AsusProbe it shows it to be more around 1.68.. Going to see if I can lower the voltage soon and retain the same OC.
 
imported the asus probe is correct...the asus mobos overvolt...do not follow the bios...stay below 1.65v in bios to be safe...

My 63x did 2.63ghz at 1.71v actual prime tested....It loaded 2.7ghz fine at 1.71v but needed like 1.75v to be stable in prime 95 for one hour...IMO that vcore is too high and I didn't test any further...

 
Thanks on telling me the AsusProbe is correct, was almost gonna download another monitor to check it out.

I'm at 147fsb right now, running around 2650 at 1.6. I'm gonna do some testing later on to see if I can bring it down to around 1.575 or lower and still be as stable as it is now.. (10 loops of 3dMark, 24 hours of prime).
 
reports I have seen indicate voltage can be a killer...looks like 1.7v and down is fairly...wonder how long long till dual channel DDR mobos....the 1.8 is looking nice
 
I got the Pentium 4 1.6A I got it a few months ago. I was running the 1.6A at 2.53 Ghz at 1.7v then now at 2.12 @ 1.6v. I now cannot run my P4@2133 with the 400 setting in my BIOS for my Abit TH7 II like I was for the first month. It gives me errors. I can only run my CPU at x3 or 300 setting at higher frequencies which is obvious but no longer for the 533 mhz setting on my Samsung PC 800, 1066 Capable x16 density Rambus Ram. I tried other CPU's it was ok with the other CPU for another 1.8A..but for my current 1.6A, it is now a no go.


 
i don't understand how my xp can take high voltage and a northwood cannot? not tryin to start a flame war, i'm just wondering, cause i see people running theirs at 1.95V (xp). how come the norhty will only handle 1.85, but damage it eventually?

this is just out of curiosity
 
Simple...The xp is based on the .18micron process and thus the gates are larger, so not comparable to northwood and .13 process...the smaller the process gets the less vcore it takes and thus the less it can take. The parts appear to become more fragile and susceptable to high voltages burning new paths between gates and thus erroring out...


I have had my 1.6@2.736ghz at 1.71v for over2 months now....I will let you know...
 
yeah the intel woodys are basically made to be more efficient in terms of voltage requirements so they're built for lower voltages... as far as i know, running a woody at 1.7+ v is like throwing over something around 2.1 volts at an xp..... its a lot of juice pressure..
 
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