Overclocking "Drift" - Asus P5GD + 3.6 P4 Slowing Down ?

wwswimming

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when i first got this thing, it OC'ed GREAT (well, if you call 11.1% great) for about a year.

specs -
Asus P5GD
Intel 560, 3.6 P4
Patriot DDR2-533 low latency, 3-2-2-8
Maxtor 300 GB SATA
Asus X850XT

for about a year, it was rock solid stable with an 11.1% OC.

it was Anandtech's original article that got me pysched about it
http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=2293&p=33

their best result was 227 FSB, no big deal, i know, "Big Whoop".

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i admit 11.1% isn't much of an OC.

but now the thing won't OC at all ! or, rather, i'm getting frequent enough error messages that i just went back to stock speeds.

has anybody ever had this happen, where a system runs OC'ed fine for a year, then at some point starts to fail OC & has to return to stock speeds ?
 

German Airlines

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It happens that when stressed too much for a short period (maybe in summer it got a little too hot) itll slightly damage and only run lower frequencies.

What cooler are/were you using?
 

wwswimming

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i'm using the Zalman 7000.

i notice that some of these heat sink fans, like the Noctua NH-12 and the Zalman 9500,
are what we mechanical engineers would call a "cantilevered load". that is, during
shipping, it can put some unusual stress on the CPU area of the motherboard.
 

996GT2

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The 7000 provides mediocre cooling performance at best, so I don't know how well it'd cool a 4 GHz Prescott. Did you overvolt at all to reach the OC speed? Did you check temps?