My Barton 2500+ from Newegg

[Midnight]

I got my retail barton from newegg on friday. Its a week 23 i forget the overall stepping. I am not able to boot at 1.65 to 3200+ speeds, I can do 11 x 200 at 1.75 V. I can get the computer to post at 2.45ish with 1.85 volts but I dont feel like its anywhere stable.

Im running right now at default speed and voltage and with normal usage im getting cpu temps of 46 degrees does that seem high? Im reluctant to give the computer more juice as i feel like it runs hot.

For cooling im using a zalman 3000 copper and aluminum heatsink over the retail heatsink. Im on a soltek golden flame, with 512 of twinmos pc 3700.

Is it safe to give this chip 1.85 volts and use the zalman? I want to really run this chip around 2.4 ghz or so and I can it to post and into windows but the heatsink gets awfully hot.

Im running my vdimm at 2.8, my mem timings: 8, 3, 3, 2 many some people could give me some tips. Right now I can get into windows with 11.5 x 211...

Thanks a lot.

 

[Jeff7181]

I'd leave it at 2.2 Ghz... there's no point in pushing it higher... it's not going to be all that much faster, and in my opinion, it's definately not worth the extra heat that's created.

 

[stonecold3169]

I found that with my week 23, that I could clock it high on low voltages, but that it ran a hell of a lot hotter then what other people are reporting with different steppings... at stock voltage, with stock cooling and AS3, I idle at 47, load at 50, which is a tight enough range that I don't worry too much about it.

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: stonecold3169
I found that with my week 23, that I could clock it high on low voltages, but that it ran a hell of a lot hotter then what other people are reporting with different steppings... at stock voltage, with stock cooling and AS3, I idle at 47, load at 50, which is a tight enough range that I don't worry too much about it.

Keep in mind that some motherboards tend to "understate" the temperature... just because they say they're running cooler, doesn't mean they actually are.

 

[Midnight]

With prime running the onboard temp given by the soltek monitor is 58-60 C that too high? Running 2.2 at 1.75 volts right now.....