Burning in a two-week-old retail SL454 P3-700 @ 945 (135 FSB) at 1.85v Vcore. I burn it in by running Winamp with a fiendishly-high-drain realtime spectrum analyzer plugin (which pushes the CPU temps WAY up, even with Rain 2.0) and generally using the he|| out of the box for a few days, and I can nudge it up after that. Rinse and repeat.
My goal is 1 GHz with air cooling.
Specs in detail:
- P3-700 SL45Y (OEM, cB0 stepping, week 20 Malaysia retail) overclocked to 945 MHz (135 MHz FSB), on Asus Slotket !!! at 1.85v. Cooled by Alpha PEP66 with 23 CFM Sunon fan, using silicon heatsink paste.
- Asus P3V4X, with 1005 BIOS. Heatsink compound added to "greenie" (Northbridge heatsink). Heatsink atached to ICS clock generator chip. 80mm case fan mounted to blow onto the ICS heatsink.
- 2x 128 MB Mushkin rev. 2 Mosel Vitalic SDRAM running at "auto" clock and 2-2-2-5 timings with 4-way interleaving enabled. (Sandra 2000 reports memory clock as 135 MHz, timings at 6-1-1-1/4-1-1-1, 4-way interleaving enabled.)
- LeadTek WinFast GeForce2 GTS 32MB DDR, overclocked to 210 MHz core, 360 MHz memory in AGP slot, but overclock disabled during burning.
- 2x Netgear FA310TX NICs in PCI slots 2 and 5.
- Tekram FC395UW SCSI controller in PCI slot 3.
- Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! Value in PCI slot 4, rev. 2, with LiveDrive connector and digitial-out jack, using LiveWare 3.0 and latest driver revision.
- IBM Deskstar 75GXP 46.5 GB (IDE 0 Master), Seagate Medalist Pro 9.1 GB (IDE 1 Master), and Iomega Zip 100 Insider (IDE 1 Slave) on IDE ports. UltraATA-66 cables throughout.
- Plextor Ultraplex, Plextor Plexwriter, Iomega Jaz, and Umax scanner on SCSI bus.
- MS Intellimouse optical and NMB Right Touch! keyboard.
- Heavily-optimized fresh install of Windows 98 Second Edition. Using VIA's 4-in-1 driver set version 4.23.
- "Massively-multiboot" configuration - 14 Windows versions installed. (The box is used for software development and testing.) Win95, Win95 OSR 2.1, Win98, Win98 SE (two copies), NT 4 Workstation, NT 4 Server, NT 4 Server with BackOffice 4.5, Win2000 Pro (two copies), Win200 Server, Win2000 Adv. Server, and a backup DOS-prompt with all devices (SCSI devices included) active.
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(Edited to fix a stupid typo.)