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Barton 2500+ OC: What went wrong?

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Cow-Man00

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I just got a nice new set of Geil Dual Channel 2x256 3200 today and popped it into my system to see if I couldn't hit the 3200+ performance level. I've got a Leadtek Winfast CR18D with a Barton 2500+ cooled by a Thermaltake Silent Boost. I set everything up in the Bios as I've seen in a number of guides, CPU FSB to 200, RAM at the same speed, and then I start up 3DMark to see what I've improved on. It makes it to the second test before 3DMark crashes, taking windows with it. So I restart, and up the voltage to 1.75 and try it again. This time, 3DMark freezes when loading a test but when I rebooted it posted weird. I could see the specs of the processor at 3200+ but none of the drives loaded and the system wouldn't respond to change the voltage back. I had to clear the bios manually and set it back to stock speed. So my question is, what happened? And how can I fix it?
 
i have no idea if that board can overclock anything. if it should:

did you try and go straight to 200MHz? if so, run Prime95's blend test at 166 for a day, then do it 175, then 190, then try 200. if you hit a wall somewhere before 200 then raise the Vcore some more, but most get to 200 with that processor at 1.75. i did. and you shouldnt have to, but try raising your DIMM voltage .1 or .2v.

you should be running Prime95's torture tests anyway to determine if its the processor or the memory thats causing problems. the test that says Maximum FPU stress will push your processor only. the Blend test will push memory also. if it runs the FPU test for a few hours but crashes on the blend test quickly, its the memory. if both tests fail repeatedly after nearly the same amount of time, its probably the CPU.

and see what the temp shows before you crash or fail Prime. should be well under 60, probably in the 40's with that HSF.
 
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