What voltage, and can I do 1.2GHz

[tompagenet]

I have a lovely 1.1GHz Thunderbird, and a KT7 (non-RAID) motherboard. It works fine at 1.1GHz, but I have two questions:

1) - What voltage should I set it at when I'm running at 1.1GHz - I have to choose the options manually as the SoftMenu system only goes up to 1Ghz - I've been running at 1.750 - does this sound normal?

2) - I've been trying to push the system to 1.2GHz, but even at 1.850 volts it's not able to run Prime95 without getting errors. Am I being unrealistic to expect it to go this high?

Thanks people, Tom

 

[Merle451]

Id say stay at 1.1Ghz

that is plenty of power and I believe the T-Birds at 1Ghz+ are using a vCore of 1.75

-Merle

 

[hans007]

you might need a new fan. also have you tried 1050?

 

[Fingers]

if your that power hungry, then you can never go wrong with a peltier. just make sure you get the cold side to touch the cpu or else you will certainly fry it, but before you even go with more extreme cooling, what type of heatsink/fan are you using.

 

[tompagenet]

I'm currently using the globalwin FOP32, but I'll be sticking the CardCoolerXT in as soon as it arrives - meanwhile I've been simulating this by having the case off and blowing a household fan across the motherboard.

I discovered somthing vaguely interesting - Prime95 was giving errors even with the CPU set at 1100Mhz and all other options (memory latency and interleaving etc.) set to the lowest (i.e. most stable) settings. I tried to figure this one out, and eventually found the culprit, or at least the partial culprit. When I run Prime95 with the Via Hardware Monitor it causes errors - without it Prime95 can complete the diagnostic. I'm going to try this at higher speeds today

Thanks people - I'll tell you how it goes