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1.875 too much voltage?

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retardedchicken

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ok so i have my vocre at 1.85 right now and i am (trying) to do 12x200(ram cant handle more FSB) and i was stable at prime for little over an hour then i get an error. if i bump my vcore up to 1.875 is taht simply too much for my CPU? temps are 37 idle 45 load


P.S.! MBM5 tells me that my average voltage is only 1.81, which may be due to my crappy turbolink PSU. should i trust that i am really giving it 1.85 or is my MBM5 telling the truth?
 
oh, and also i can do 11.5x200 at 1.75vcore prime95 15 1/2 hours stable(turned it off and deemed it stable then)
 
it depends on youre temperatures really, i think... if you can keep it under 60 deg under load, you should be ok, but i doubt it with a zalman
 
HTat much voltage will certainly cut into the life of that chip but if you keep the temps down nice i would worry about it a huge amount. I wouldnt go that high, 100 mhz isnt worth the price of a new chip if you ask me.
 
XP's are dirt cheap
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LOL...Yeah, even 3200's are dropping like a rock. BWTF, 1.875 voltage doesn't sound very bad to me...if ya keep it cool. If not then don't be OC your sweetheart, especially if ya can't afford to replace it ;)

Now seriously, I have a 2600 Thoroughbred running now at 215 x 11 = 2.370ghz and I think it is at about 1.9v. My Corsair XMS-3200 CL2 is juiced at 2.8v so it may only last a year or two. It has never crashed in my daily grind or in games so I figured it was ok. However, just for grins I just did a Prime 95 torture test for 7 hours without any errors or warnings so I assume it is fairly rock solid. I could never figure out the MB monitor so I just rely on what my EXOS shows as the HS temp and it jumped from 91*F to 97*F while running primes. Still working on getting the 9600 Pro up to 600 core, but it appears to need some extra juice and an ice job to get me there :p

Forgot to mention: So what if your chip only lasts 12 months instead of 5 years. You aren't going to want it in 12 months anyway :D
 
Originally posted by Top Nurse
LOL...Yeah, even 3200's are dropping like a rock. BWTF, 1.875 voltage doesn't sound very bad to me...if ya keep it cool. If not then don't be OC your sweetheart, especially if ya can't afford to replace it ;)

Now seriously, I have a 2600 Thoroughbred running now at 215 x 11 = 2.370ghz and I think it is at about 1.9v. My Corsair XMS-3200 CL2 is juiced at 2.8v so it may only last a year or two. It has never crashed in my daily grind or in games so I figured it was ok. However, just for grins I just did a Prime 95 torture test for 7 hours without any errors or warnings so I assume it is fairly rock solid. I could never figure out the MB monitor so I just rely on what my EXOS shows as the HS temp and it jumped from 91*F to 97*F while running primes. Still working on getting the 9600 Pro up to 600 core, but it appears to need some extra juice and an ice job to get me there :p

Forgot to mention: So what if your chip only lasts 12 months instead of 5 years. You aren't going to want it in 12 months anyway :D
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You found the theory behind my overclocking my 1900+. :p Instead of frying it, though, I'll just put it into another cheap system and have 2 2500+, a 1900+, the PIII dell, and the 550 PIII. :D Too bad I don't have the money for another system (plus, my mom will bust a nut if I add another boxen to my farm... ;))
 
I personally wouldn't trust the voltages in MBM5 too much...Mine looked kinda low until I checked them with some other monitoring software and went into my bios to find out they are just fine. I have an Antec....they should be just fine :)
 
Originally posted by thezfunk
I personally wouldn't trust the voltages in MBM5 too much...Mine looked kinda low until I checked them with some other monitoring software and went into my bios to find out they are just fine. I have an Antec....they should be just fine :)
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AMD CPU do handle high voltages quite well. 1,875 is probably no problem.

I got a crap CPU or mainboard though so I have to run at 2 V to run at 11x210 stable.

But I am also running like 45 full load but I am watercooling.

And it´s not your crappy PSU. Those Abit have very weak power onboard. So I run 2V is more like 1,95.
 
I voltmodded my A7N8X a while back and have been running at 2.01 volts ever since. I am watercooling with a cascade block so my temps stay nice and low. About 36-38 under load. Then again, I keep my house a little cooler than most people, so I have a few degrees of ambient bonus.

Of course, in the summer I may have to redo things.
 
He has a unlocked one (i know him personally) and you can't get those cheap anymore :(
 
Originally posted by retardedchicken
i think i may try the 1.875, i dont trust my PSU very much and i am pissed because i cant get 2.4 ghz
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You are aircooling and expect 2,4 ghz in as low voltage as 1,875???

Most 2500+ don´t do 2.4 Ghz stable. You are lucky if you can get 2300 Mhz.
 
It will shorten the life of the processor, but from like 10 years to 8 years or something. Not anything we would ever notice. My old Celeron 333 at 450 was on a high voltage and a lot of people told me it would die, but it still runs all these years later.

Just make sure your cooling is good and if your temps start getting to around 55c or higher, then take it down a notch.
 
my bitch(2500) better be stable at 2.4 ghz or ill be ANGRY!!!! RAAWWRRR


is there any way i can tell if i am going to fry before i see the BSOD (smoke not screen:p )
 
Originally posted by reflex33
It will shorten the life of the processor, but from like 10 years to 8 years or something. Not anything we would ever notice. My old Celeron 333 at 450 was on a high voltage and a lot of people told me it would die, but it still runs all these years later.

Just make sure your cooling is good and if your temps start getting to around 55c or higher, then take it down a notch.
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I have never owned a CPU with a lifetime larger then say 2 years. After that I have sold it and moved on.
 
Originally posted by retardedchicken
my bitch(2500) better be stable at 2.4 ghz or ill be ANGRY!!!! RAAWWRRR


is there any way i can tell if i am going to fry before i see the BSOD (smoke not screen:p )
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Um, no... When the CPU lets go, it does it all at once, at lease in my experience. I had a PIII lose a transistor on it, and it went 'POOOOW!' and that was it. :p No warning before (other than the massive amounts of random rebooting...).
 
that voltage seems fine
i stop when i get to 1.925 or so
that just seems too much for air
 
Sorry to sorta drift away from the topic but I felt this belonged in here. How long have you 1.9V and above peeps with Athlon XPs had them last for?
 
Originally posted by Andrew87
Sorry to sorta drift away from the topic but I felt this belonged in here. How long have you 1.9V and above peeps with Athlon XPs had them last for?
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I've been running my CPU at 2.5ghz with 1.9v for about 6 months now. Still runs great.
 
Originally posted by oqvist
I have never owned a CPU with a lifetime larger then say 2 years. After that I have sold it and moved on.
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I'm not talking about lifetime you own it, I was talking about how long the processor will work before it failed.

The point being that even with raising the voltage it won't decrease the life of the processor enough to where you would still own it when it failed. You would buy a new one long before that (I would hope).
 
Originally posted by reflex33
I'm not talking about lifetime you own it, I was talking about how long the processor will work before it failed.

The point being that even with raising the voltage it won't decrease the life of the processor enough to where you would still own it when it failed. You would buy a new one long before that (I would hope).
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There's me... I have my first CPU, still. :p Well, both of them. The PIII in the Dell never really has been mine, but it is still going strong. Then there's the Pally 1900+ I bought almost 2 years ago... Both still going strong. NOt to mention the PIII 550 (Slot1) that has been used in servers for 3 years, then I got it. :)
 
im using the same mobo and have my voltage @1.95 2480mhz with a dp-102 deep impact 2 temps are a little high close to 60 but its stable as a rock:)
 
Originally posted by reflex33
I'm not talking about lifetime you own it, I was talking about how long the processor will work before it failed.

The point being that even with raising the voltage it won't decrease the life of the processor enough to where you would still own it when it failed. You would buy a new one long before that (I would hope).
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Which was exactly my point. I moved on getting a faster CPU since my CPU tends to get slow within the 2 year lifespan
 
Originally posted by infin|ty
2.3vcore before:D You're fine.
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my kinda of guy....

Originally posted by Andrew87
Sorry to sorta drift away from the topic but I felt this belonged in here. How long have you 1.9V and above peeps with Athlon XPs had them last for?
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2.58Ghz 2.23v (235x11), 24/7 for the last 2 mounths or so.....before that it ran 2.4 2.0v (12x200) ofr about 5 mounths...iv had the chip for well over year now its a week 0249 I got it when it was 3 weeks old...Been runnign +1.9v ever since.
 
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