P4b oc to 3.26 running hot

[nOObBooB]

i just recently decided to over clock my computer. I have a abit IS7 mobo with a p4 that is stock at 2.8 fsb 533 mhz. I increased the fsb to 155 from the stock 133mhz. Its temp at full load is at 55 running prime95 and using mother board monitor 5. At idle its at 42. Is this too hot for my p4 to be running at. I am at stock voltages (1.525).

Sometime when i am running winamp, i load up MatLab and winamp pauses for a sec. This has never happened befored i started to oc my computer. Do you konw the reason to this? Could it be my ram its DDR266 at DDR310 right now. This is the only program that causes my computer to pause for a sec.

 

[onemorekornkid]

That is hott, but nothing that is gonna break it.

 

[THUGSROOK]

Abit IS7?
default voltage?
stock HSF?

yea, thats about right.

 

[nOObBooB]

i have a zalman 7000 Alcu. But i guess since a zalman is aimed more towards being quiet rather can keeping the cpu extremely cool. It doesnt do such a good job compared to a thermalright. I guess that was one mistake i made when building this pc. But at these temps, the cpu should run fine right. It just seems extremely hot.

 

[masshass81]

can you attatch a fan onto your heatsink? a 120mm fan would keep it quiet while dissipating heat more effectively

 

[nOObBooB]

OH and another question,

is my ram overclocked too much because when load programs while winamp is playing, winamp will pause?

its speed is 133 mhz oc to 155 mhz, its value ram by some company.

 

[nOObBooB]

Originally posted by: masshass81
can you attatch a fan onto your heatsink? a 120mm fan would keep it quiet while dissipating heat more effectively

Zalman currently has a fan attached to it, i think 120 mm.
Here is the link of my heatsink

 

[yankeesfan]

******************* IT IS NOT HOT AT ALL *******************

 

[Vee]

Your temperatures are fine, if everything is indeed working as you intended. But you should definitely check the performance of your OC relative to non-OC. And run it hard for 40min to heat it up. And what have you set your RAM ratio to? DDR266 will not run at 155MHz. You generally can't overclock RAM, certainly not to that degree. So I would guess your RAM is running at something else, if your PC still works.

 

[nOObBooB]

well i am at 1 to 1 ratio with fsb and memory, with PC 2100 speed ram. I checked these values using cpu-z.

 

[Vee]

Well, that's good PC2100 RAM then. It occured to me this is perhaps possible, since most RAM these days are much faster, and there is no problem manufacturing it.

Well, you just need to benchmark your system then, under different settings, to verify that it's working as intended, when OC.

 

[rogue1979]

Ram overclocking greatly varies. I have two sticks of PC2100 that hits 200MHz. On the otherhand I have seen PC3200 that won't go 200MHz.....