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Intel P4 2.6GHz Northwood Max Voltage?

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xtknight

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Right now I'm running 3.4GHz@1.6V using ASUS' AI Overclock (seems to work well), and I'm not sure if that has increased the voltage or not. I'd like to clock it a little higher by giving it more voltage, but I don't know how much is too much. Anybody have some insight on this? Plus, what about a good program to display memory voltage? (I can't seem to find that in CPU-Z)

Thanks,
xtknight
 
According to all the resident overclockers, up to 1.7v is safe, anything over is asking for P4 sudden death syndrome. I personally won't go over 1.6v on a Northwood core. 3.4GHz sounds good, more than enough for your 9500 Pro.
 
Yeah I'd agree on the 9500 pro part, but unfortunately I'm playing CPU limited games. I thought the Northwood 'C' revision was immune to Northwood Sudden Death Syndrome? That doesn't sound good though, so maybe I'll just be happy with what I got right now. Thanks.
 
I wouldn't go over 1.6V on my 3.2C. You're getting a nice overclock as it is, I wouldn't chance it.
 
The little more you may squeeze out of it past 1.6v is prety much not worth it....I wouldn'd go past 1.65v...10% is good enough....ONce I got that high I could only get 1-2fsb per vcore boost....
 
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