Venice 3200 Safe OC VCore

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Greetings,

I'm trying to squeeze as much as possible out of my old home machine. I've had it stable for years at 10x241 @ 1.45 vcore, wont go any higher than 2.41Ghz at that voltage. Getting another 200-300 mhz would be nice. I'm running a stock HSF, my temps are around 38 idle 45 on load. Mobo is GA-K8NSC-939.

What is the max VCore I should consider for a safe 24/7 OC? I've searched around on the web but got conflicting results some people run those cores at 1.7 on air and are getting as high as 2.8Ghz speeds some say 1.5 is the hard limit. What would you suggest?

 

[Stumps]

IIRC I went to 1.5v with my old 3000+ and it went all the way to 2.87ghz and is still running at that speed 3 years later, you will need to lower the HT multiplier down a bit to get a higher OC.

 

[cparker]

from:

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuch...howdoc.aspx?i=2548&p=1

"As we couldn't get to 2.7 GHz without running at 1.750V, we're a little hesitant to recommend that speed as a long-term solution. Given that 2.6 GHz is, at worst, only 4% slower, we'd recommend that as a better solution and go with the 1.650V setting"

 

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Thanks for the link, that's very useful

 

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Originally posted by: Stumps
IIRC I went to 1.5v with my old 3000+ and it went all the way to 2.87ghz and is still running at that speed 3 years later, you will need to lower the HT multiplier down a bit to get a higher OC.

Wow that's pretty nice, what is ur HT and mem timings set at?

 

[Stumps]

Originally posted by: avp2306

Originally posted by: Stumps
IIRC I went to 1.5v with my old 3000+ and it went all the way to 2.87ghz and is still running at that speed 3 years later, you will need to lower the HT multiplier down a bit to get a higher OC.

Wow that's pretty nice, what is ur HT and mem timings set at?

FSB was 287mhz, HT was set at 3x (1722mhz), ram was at 459mhz (8-4-4-4 2T).

My 3000+ (E6) is a Socket 754 model and the board was a GA-K8NS PRO.