P3-700 OC Question

[lilstevo]

Okay guys this is weird and I don;t quite get it. I have a p3-700E, gorb, iwill sloket and p3v4x. I o/c to 933 @ 1.75V and run seti and rc5 and occasionally play ut. While using seti and rc5 I do regular stuff like AIM, surf the web, word, excel, etc. Run for hours and no crashes at all. turn off seti and rc5 and a while later system freeze. Reboot don't run seti and rc5 at all and after awhile it freezes again. wtf is wrong with my system? Oh i have tried 980@1.8 and 1.85 too. I tried 933@1.8 and 1.85 and same thing. I would think that stressing the cpu woudl cause it to crash but no stress and it dies? Do I have a "hardworker" type cpu? Oh also I am running Win2k.

 

[fxsts]

I have tried all kinds of Slockets including those Iwill, Asus, MSI, and Abit. And according to my experience, IWill performed the worst.

Many people like MSI, but I personally thought Asus cards worked the best and required less voltage to run more stable. For example, my Celeron 400Mhz was not 100% stable at 600Mhz@2.2V on Iwill but got super stable at the speed at 2.1V on Asus.

My Celeron 566 got over 50Mhz more by switching from Iwill to Asus.

Slockets are pretty cheap so you might want to try on Asus.

 

[compuwiz1]

My experience with slotkets from best to worst:

MSI 6905 Master (it would overclock, even when the others failed to post)
Iwill II
Asus
Abit III (some cpus would not boot on this)
Generic FC-PGA

 

[fxsts]

Hey, Steve,

You had IWill doing better than Asus. Hmmmm?!?&%. I had both IWill I & II and they both did worse than the original Asus and Asus 133. I tried some MSI cards including their latest version (the one with the lower voltage setting for Coppermine), but I kept Asus 133 for Celeron 566 in my girlfriend system as I found Asus more stable at higher speed.

Well, it could be something to do with how they work together with each motherboard. My experience has been with Abit BX6, BH6, and Soyo 6BA+III.

 

[lilstevo]

I have MSI sloket but I think it might be damaged since it won't let me oc my cpu to anything higher than 700. It works fine with lower mhz celerons like my celeron 400s. I don't know what is going on. The thing is I had my friends Iwill Sloket II and if I remember correctly I was able to overclock to 933 and run it at that for I think a couple of days. Then I got my own and swapped it out. So maybe the Iwill sloket is causing problems with the stability? But why doesn't it crash when I am running seti and rc5 and doing regular stuff and instead crashes when I run regular stuff only?

 

[fxsts]

lilstevo,

I did not quite read your post well the first time. Now, I understand what your problem is. And that sounds very strange.

My question is if it has anything to do with overclocking. Do you have the same problem if you run the chip at the normal speed like 700Mhz?

It seem that something other than the CPU itself is causing the instability. For example, I have had a similar strange problem when I filled all the DIMM slots on Soyo 6BA+III. It disappeared when I took one of them off.

It could be software (Windows) error. You might want clean install Windows.

Well, good luck.