Tbrid 1ghz wont do over 1.1!!! : (

[Compuguru]

My 1ghz blue core Tbird wont do over 1.1ghz. It stalls booting at 1.15ghz. Im running it at 1.85v (although VIA MBM says 1.92v) with an Alpha PAL 6035. Im using the standard Alpha theremal grease (havent ordered ASilver yet). Im getting an rc5 temp of 111F/43C. I penciled in the L1s and it is currently running at 110x10 instead of 100x11. Its very stable now, but i really expected 1.2ghz. BTW sys temp is 73F/23C on an ABIT KT7-RAID. Additionally the 112mhz causes graphics glitches, so its unusable.

Any ideas why it wont go higher?

 

[shiznut123]

i think its just a bad chip.
dont buy arctic silver. your grease is already good

 

[BP]

Try increasing the Vi/o to 3.5v.

 

[compuwiz1]

Close your L7 Bridges too. That helped me get a couple to there.

 

[grifterspawn]

Dont feel bad, I bought a 1ghz (blue core) TBIRD off of someone that guaranteed it @1.2ghz, not steve btw, and it wont go past 1.1ghz without croaking. Exact same setup as the guy I bought it from, except I have to run it at 1.87volts just to get it stable at 1.1ghz.
KT7-Raid w/ASG
5 Case fans
FOP-38
300w PS
If I clock it at 1.2ghz it reboots all by itself before windows loads or it causes vxd or someother type of error/corruption. Lovely!

 

[Daudi]

How did you get yours to 1.87 volts? I've got my tbird 1ghz@1.2ghz pretty easily. It's stable as hell too..I believe it's a week 48, I bought it off some no-name pricewatch company too..how lucky is that?

 

[Compuguru]

Dont the L7s just increase the voltage?

 

[grifterspawn]

The KT7, setting my KT7-Raid at 1.800volts is actually 1.87, 1.775 is actually 1.85 and so on. Just look at your hardware monitor. What board are you using?

 

[AdamK47]

What does closing the L7 bridges do to increase stability that the motherboard voltage selection doesn't?

 

[Daudi]

I've got the msi k7tpro2....

 

[Compuguru]

I knocked agp down and put the i/o at 3.5 and the mem speed down. I may tinker a little more but im pretty convinced its just a bad cpu.

 

[MortaniuS]

hehhe, i got loucky also, my 1ghz runs rock solid at 1.2 ghz and my memory at cas2, and all teh fastest settings in my kt7raid

 

[lenjack]

It's not a bad cpu....you paid for 1G and you got 1.1G. Anything over 1G is luck. Tbirds don't o/c as well as Durons. Overclocking is never guaranteed.

 

[sweetca]

if his 1gig wont do over 1.1, does that have any kind of significane of how much i can overclock my duron 800? im trying to OC it, but i dont know how. i am really lost when you are all talking about L7 and L2 or whatever that means. any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Moonbender]

Sweetca read AMD Thunderbird & Duron Overclocking Revealed. It's a bit aged, but it's a great introduction to Socket A overclocking. Also try searching tomshardware.com for his overclocking how-tos. There are also plenty of messages about the topic on this forums.