4200 oc

[[teh]manwich]

just did my first overclock last nite and i could only get my cpu stable at 2.63ghz with 1.4v. when i got to 2.7ghz with 1.425v i couldnt do a full run of superpi at 32m without errors. should i up the voltage more and see what happens? or is the voltage already too high? by the way, after the overclock, the cpu is 35c idle and 44c underload.

 

[Smoove910]

Give it 1.45 and see what happens. I would go up to 1.5 if needed, but keep an eye on your temps

 

[[teh]manwich]

yea if the temps get up to 50 im gonna back down a bit. but i just dont know what the limit is with the voltage. ill give it a try tonite and see if i can maybe get it to 2.75ghz.

 

[[BRO]Alaskan]

If you are using a stock (all aluminum) HSF you will run into temp problems trying to go any higher. With a good cooler you can get to 2.7ghz on 1.5v (maybe less) and keep the temps below 50deg C.

 

[shmitty]

Mines maxed at 2.68 right now and I did a lot of messing around. I found that with a multi of 10.5 I could be stable at this with it at 11 max is 2.62. FSB is 255. That's both memtest and orthos stable.

 

[[teh]manwich]

well im using a zalman 9500 cpu cooler so i dont think temperature problems will be that big of an issue. ill bump the volts up to 1.45 and try for 2.7 and run superpi.

 

[[teh]manwich]

well i set voltage to 1.5 and tried 2.7 and i couldnt even start superpi without errors. so the best i could do is 2.67 and thats about it. although i can leave the voltage at 1.45, and when it was at 1.5 my temps were a bit too high, so i guess 2.67 is the limit.