Problems with Barton 2500+ o/c'ed

[bde]

I overclocked my barton 2500 to 3200. At first I started with 1.8 than 1.825, than 1.85 and finally 1.875.
My fan is a volcano fan at medium speed, and my heatsink is SLK 800, My temp is always good. idle it's like at 47 degrees with 1.85 volts. when im playing a game its at 60 maximum. I don't know what to do... during wc3 after 30 minutes or so, same for needforspeedU2. But it doesn't happen at stock speed.
Help me please

 

[imported_whatever]

try running prime95 torture test, using the "blend" option. this will get the cpu to the maximum temperature that it will reach, and also test the stability.
you shouldnt let it get over about 65C, of course it is better if you can keep it cooler than that (many barton OC much better below ~45C)

 

[bde]

I've done all that, But everytime that I see it's not stable what do i do?
I tryed my ram at "SPD" but didn't make any diffrence

 

[boyRacer]

What case are you using?

 

[howdyduty]

Try backing down the speed until its stable. Some of them just wont run well at that high of speed. Better stable than fast.

 

[bde]

Im using Antec performance II
yea I've tryed bringing down the speed (200x10.5) it works fine with 1.825 but that's still not 200x11 I wanted to have it running stable at 3200

 

[TheStu]

What kind of Geil are you using?
1.825 VCore sounds awfully high to me....
What is your VDimm?

 

[bde]

Im using golden dragon , 400 Mhz, CAS/timing 2/6-3-3 1T@PC3200, the voltage is from 2.5 to 3.1

and Right now My cpu voltage is at 1.85 and it still crashes, it also crashed with every other voltage below that. Once I ran prime 95 on 1.85 "cpu" test and it went up to 5 hours and it crashed. so I really don't know what to do. I know if I change it to 200x10.5 it will work fine, But why not have it the max you know?

 

[Gronich]

I used to have the following setup:

Athlon XP2500+ (Unlocked)
Abit NF7-S rev 1.2
SK7 Heatsink
Smartfan II

I could not get it stable at 200Mhz FSB but it would run happily at:

2166Mhz - 13*166 at 1.7 volts and
2250Mhz - 13.5*166 at 1.775 volts.

I'm now running a XPM2600+ on the same setup:

2400Mhz - 12*200 at 1.7 volts.

So it could possibly be the CPU that is causing the instability.

 

[TheStu]

do you happen to know off hand what the stepping is?
I'm using the same RAM and it will hit 225 on my board at 2.95 VDimm...
My friend is using the same board and he has a 225 FSB with some generic PC3500

I agree with gronich that it could be the CPU but try to eliminate everything else from the equation... have you tried running a single stick of RAM?
Unplug all your PCI cards one by one and then your optical drives followed by any extra hard drives.... if it still has the problem that probably eliminates the PSU....

Keep doing stuff like that until you can safely exclude every component.

 

[MegaWorks]

Update your Abit Bios to ver. 26 and see what will happen after that.

Go play CS:Source after the bios change

 

[bde]

heh
No TheStu I can't remember one digit

the blend option on prime 95 doesn't last 10 minutes on my computer with 200x11 at 1.85 or 1.875. I left my comp at 1.9 with blend option I wonder how far it went ;o


after all I think I hate overclocking, TOOOOOOOo much headache...Way too much.

 

[MegaWorks]

Originally posted by: bde
heh
No TheStu I can't remember one digit

the blend option on prime 95 doesn't last 10 minutes on my computer with 200x11 at 1.85 or 1.875. I left my comp at 1.9 with blend option I wonder how far it went ;o


after all I think I hate overclocking, TOOOOOOOo much headache...Way too much.

So bde how long did prime95 last with 1.9v?

after all I think I hate overclocking, TOOOOOOOo much headache...Way too much.

LOL! overclocking is not a headache it's luck, if you're hardware pieces are stable in overclocking then you're lucky if not well too bad.

 

[bde]

when I checked it, the program prime95 itself had crashed, not my computer, I need to run it again...

 

[MegaWorks]

When did it crash, what I mean is that for how long did prime95 last?

 

[bde]

yea I tryed hard to figure it out (lol) but I wasn't able to, because there was a window that said close for error and the prime thing didn't show resaults, it looked like as if it was still running. so as soon as clicked on the close botten of the error window, p95 just simply closed.
Im running it again we shall see

 

[bde]

wow I ran prime95 again on 1.9 and it crash.
NOW im bringing it down to 200x10.5 with 1.825 let's see what happens

 

[kyparrish]

that's some awefully high voltage to hit those speeds...

what is your vdimm set @? (ram voltage)

I have the following setup...

AXP Mobile Barton 2400+ @ 2200mhz (1.65volts)
512mb PC2700@3200 speeds (2.7volts)
Shuttle AN35N Ultra mobo

If I were you, I would start out at stock speeds (166x11) on STOCK voltage, and bump up the FSB slowly, increase vcore as needed. Personally, I wouldn't feed an AXP more than 1.8volts on air cooling.

 

[MegaWorks]

Wow it crashed again! Try to do the memory test in Prime95. To do that go to options click on torture test then select custom then put in Min and Max FFT 8K, memory in use put 415 mb than click ok and see what will happen after.

 

[bde]

My ram voltage is default kyparrish, at 2.6 :/ it goes up to 2.9 but i've never tryed higher than 2.6

I tryed the custom min and max at 8, and it didn't crash it worked for 5 hours and I stopped it.

 

[bde]

I just tryed 200x11 at 1.85 with 2.7 ram voltage and running prime95 at blend, we'll see in how many seconds it reboots

megaworks, is it okay if I put from 2.6(default) to 2.7 or even more?

 

[MegaWorks]

Yes it's safe if the company covers the warranty. At geilusa.com it shows that the dragon can go up to 2.95v and it's Lifetime Warranty.

 

[bde]

okay I tryed 200x11 at 1.85 voltage with vdimm at 2.7
and prime 95 on blend went only for 46 minutes...


trying 2.8 now