Northwood max core voltage?

rogue1979

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I know this has been asked many times in the past. Now that we have a couple of years of time logged in, what is the maximum safe core voltage for a P4 Northwood core without any risk of sudden death syndrome?

I have several Pentium 4 mobile 1.6GHz and 1.4GHz cores that I picked up on ebay for under $40 each.

They default to 1.60v on a SiS661 chipset and run very cool on air, under 40c full load.

I can raise the voltage to 1.70v by simply connecting VID3 and VID4, very easy. They both run 2400MHz on a 12x multiplier at 200MHz fsb.

These are older steppings, so they should respond to more core voltage.