So, I built a new system just after thanksgiving and I've been reading the forums on OCing.
I replaced the PSU that came with my case with a XConnect.
So far I've been able to get my 3500 to be "overnight EQ2 stable" at 2.5Ghz/1.5volts with the memory clocked down using the 166Mhz setting. At 2.6 the chip couldn't run prime95 for more than 2 minutes without erroring out. I boosted the voltage to 1.6 once but chickened out and that's when I rolled back the speed to 2.5 in order to achieve stability.
I guess next I could run my memory at 1:1 and see if it's still stable with memtest86.
What do you guys suggest?
EDIT: I'm running Bios 1.3. My temps at 2.5 hit 53C under load. At 1.6 I saw them hit 57C while inside corecenter. Corecenter always reads higher than MBM5.
Thanks!
Gowry
I replaced the PSU that came with my case with a XConnect.
So far I've been able to get my 3500 to be "overnight EQ2 stable" at 2.5Ghz/1.5volts with the memory clocked down using the 166Mhz setting. At 2.6 the chip couldn't run prime95 for more than 2 minutes without erroring out. I boosted the voltage to 1.6 once but chickened out and that's when I rolled back the speed to 2.5 in order to achieve stability.
I guess next I could run my memory at 1:1 and see if it's still stable with memtest86.
What do you guys suggest?
EDIT: I'm running Bios 1.3. My temps at 2.5 hit 53C under load. At 1.6 I saw them hit 57C while inside corecenter. Corecenter always reads higher than MBM5.
Thanks!
Gowry
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