OCing newbie in need of direction

[stinkynathan]

Athlon XP 3000+
A7N8X-X motherboard (BIOS rev 1011)
2x512 Corsair VS PC3200 RAM
Thermalright 947U heatsink w/ 92mm Tornado on top (~5000 RPM)

First time CPU OC here (obviously). Finally started fiddling with things since I got the heatsink installed yesterday.

Anyway, I've got this thing up to 2435.5 MHz right now, with it failing Prime95 after 10-15 minutes.

BIOS settings are as follows:
CPU External Frequency: 220
CPU External Frequency Multple 11.0x
Memory Frequency: By SPD
9-4-4-3T on the RAM (BIOS default)
VCore I've bumped from 1.65V to 1.7V
DDR voltage is unchanged at 2.6V

Temp is staying pretty consistently in the 50C range (+/- 2C). I should be able to get more out of this thing, shouldn't I? What do I need to do next? More voltage? RAM timings?

Definately not looking to fry anything, but I'd like to get some more out of this rig.

nate

 

[Somniferum]

IMHO you need to back off in this situation. You've already bumped up the voltage to 1.7 -- anything above that is a serious risk of permanent damage. Failing Prime95 in that short a time is a red flag that your CPU is not cut out for that speed.

 

[stinkynathan]

I guess that may be the case. 🙁

It has been previously suggested that I may have a bad diode on this CPU too. It used to sit at somewheres around 65C/60C load/idle with my old heatsink no matter what I did to it.

Maybe I got a bad CPU 🙁

o well....

nate