Is P4C's from philippines less overclockable?

[OC-Freak]

Just got my system set up and for me overclocking is not possible

Mobo: 2 different boards used: Asus P4P800/DELUXE(i865PE) and MSI Neo-FIS2R(i875).
CPU: P4 2,6GHz 800MHz bus retail boxed version pack date: 13 June, from phillipines. Don't remember the rest
PSU: Antec TrueControl 550Watt and Superflower 520Watt and Q-tec 550Watt tested
Memory: Some Winbond CH-5 memory that should be good up to PC3500 and some generic crucial with mosel chips (PC3200) both is CL2.5
Cooler: Thermalright SLK900-u with a good enermax speed adjustable 92mm fan. Arctic silver 3 used. CPU temp: 27 deg C idle and 34 deg C under full load (when I slow the fan on the SLK-900 down to min the temps slowly rises to 62 deg C under full load so I think this is the actual temps).

Think that's the most important stuff. Newest bioses, clean install of XP, all patches and service packs applied...blah blah.....

I can't even OC to 210MHz bus without getting BSODS in win XP SP1 (page fault in non-paged area, irql not less or equal, and others it varies but page fault in non-paged area is the most common(lead me to think it was memory problems, changed memory but problem is still the same)). Sometimes lockups as well.

Yes, tried to set performance to everything from fast to ultra turbo in msi bios...
Yes, tried to slow the mem down to 333MHz/320MHz.
Yes, tried all voltage adjustements, yes locked pci/agp bus.

Can't think of anything that I've forgotten......

Someone else with P4C CPU's from philipines? Are they bad overclockers or am I just unlucky?

 

[BillStuck]

how do I tell what chip i have? Can I tell withough removing it from the board?
If so I'll tell you what i've got and my OC. That might help

 

[tweaker54321]

it should say on the white sticker on the cpu box

 

[BillStuck]

ahh don't have that here. I'll have to wait till tomorrow then unless there is another way

 

[tweaker54321]

no you have to physically look at the box or the CPU itself

 

[BillStuck]

oh well. My max stable OC is 3.12ghz at 260fsb 5:4 divider. I have HyperX PC3500 and an Abit IS7-E board.

I'll post tomorrow with my CPU type.

 

[jlarsson]

I have a 2.4c from Costa Rica, running 250fsb = 3.0ghz just fine.

 

[Wingznut]

Where the cpu is packaged (Phili, Malay, CR)... is 100% irrelevant to how well it overclocks.

 

[RIGorous1]

Originally posted by: Wingznut
Where the cpu is packaged (Phili, Malay, CR)... is 100% irrelevant to how well it overclocks.

poor wingznut... I've seen you post these same words atleast 5 times in other posts... when will people learn to search the forums!

 

[WarCon]

So the batches of silicon cores are split evenly between the packaging facilities?

Never know when one of the night shift technicians is rocking the machines with 140 db's of Beethoven or Metalica and causing even further straining.......

 

[orion7144]

Hey, whats wrong with us night shift technicians? I do listen to Metallica but we can't have music in the FAB. Shoot we can't have cell phones in there.

Originally posted by: WarCon
So the batches of silicon cores are split evenly between the packaging facilities?

Never know when one of the night shift technicians is rocking the machines with 140 db's of Beethoven or Metalica and causing even further straining.......

 

[WarCon]

Yeah, we know which shift makes the 2.4's and which makes the 3.2's............

(Probably the night shift makes the best, it use to be that way when I worked in a factory - Day shift was always trying to steal the best employees from the night shift too, tell me it ain't so)

 

[OC-Freak]

So the CPU's is not made at those locations? (Philippines, malaysia and Costa Rica)

Only assembled and labeled at those locations? Or how much is done at those locations? Is the heat spreader added at those locations for example (improper adding of heat spreader may be a problem).

And where is the core made?

Guess I'm not really into this stuff

 

[ErikaeanLogic]

what timings are you using with your CH-5? the Asus boards don't really like to run the CH-5 with a RAS to CAS delay of less than 3, so use 2-3-2-6 instead of 2-2-2-6. I've had four P4 C chips, and all of them did at least 3.2GHz at default voltage, Prime95 stable. 3 of them did 3.3GHz at default. Remember: with overclocking, it's best to adhere to the adage that "the fault lies not in our stars but in ourselves"

 

[OC-Freak]

I'm running my meme at 2,5-3-3-8 so thaty should not be the problem. Same problem with both memory types I tested as well. So it seems to be the CPU...