Overcloking stopped at 2.2 for Athlon 2400 Mobile?

[Gamingphreek]

lol... im running at 1.8 right now and my board overvolts so its at 1.84. So im very cautious. I try it below that but then it fails prime 95. Might i dunno why i cant attain 3000+ below those speeds but hey... its stable right now.

To check your Vcore simply look in the bios hardware monitor... more preferrably if you have a voltage meter use that... Im not too sure where it goes tho... so someone else will have to help ya there.

-Kevin

 

[pelikan]

I think bartons can handle quite a bit of voltage. I've never heard of anyone frying one from too much voltage, except for Soulkeeper. Bad luck I guess.
I've run a 2100+ tbred for a year at 1.9V and a barton for six months at 1.95V.

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: Gamingphreek
Voltage doesn't kill processors... heat kills processors.
-Unkown... but good saying

Dont worry until after above the 1.8xx range. Ive seen some go as high as 2.1V. I certainly wouldn't go that high im happily running at 1.8V right now. I was hesitant my first time but its not a big deal. Make sure you have adequate cooling tho.

-Kevin

The source of that quote is unknown because nobody will fess up and claim they said it since it's untrue.

 

[AWhackWhiteBoy]

hheellllooooo 2 volts. my barton runs just peachy

 

[Soulkeeper]

hahaha you guys are livin' on the edge

i wanna see 3ghz+ barton overclocks if yur wasting that much voltage tho

 

[Killrose]

Is 100MHz more worth the $45-$60 cost for a new PSU?

 

[Soulkeeper]

if you add futureproofness then for me It was

 

[SickBeast]

I guess that's why he's called "soulkeeper"...all those dead CPU's. It reminds me of a Jewel song actually...

Anyhow, I always invest in a good PSU. I guess I'm paranoid. I just want something of high quality feeding just the right amount of power to my expensive components. I've had a couple of cheap PSU's go up in smoke on me and it scared me into only buying Enermax. Yep, I'm an Enermax fanboy. That's probably a first.

 

[CletusTheDwarf]

well i got the new power supply, an antec smartPower 350W, and I've pushed it up to 1.725 and it still won't be stable at 2.3 ghz (200*11.5). Any idea why? It should easily be stable at that speed. I am stable at 2.2 with 1.625V, I shouldn't have to go up more than 0.1V just to get a 100mhz increase.

 

[pelikan]

When you near the cpu's overclock limit the voltage increase necessary to keep it stable is not linear.

 

[CletusTheDwarf]

that makes sense, but I would think I would still have a couple more hundred mhz to go up before I reached the limit of this chip.

 

[JackBurton]

Guys, we are talking about <$99 chips here. If they fail in a year or two due to voltage, buy another THEN for <$50. That being said, I have my XP 2600+ running at 2.2GHz (15x147MHz FSB) at 1.6v. And the only reason I'm running 1.6v is because my board won't go any lower for this board. I'm sure I could do 2.4-2.5GHz with this chip, but my stupid board won't let me choose a multiplier higher than 15 and it doesn't like a FSB higher than 147MHz (I could push it to 150MHz but I like to keep my data safe at 147MHz. ).