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C2D voltage
- Thread starter GetFunk01
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Your voltage is a bit high considering the temperatures. Are you sure you're measuring the right voltage/temperature (or maybe you're on water cooling??)? Maybe try lowering it a bit, sometimes 100MHz less can be achived at significantly lower voltage (like 1.4-1.45V).
Ouch, seems you left the voltage management on auto. That's a bad ideea, generally, and i've seen Asus boards applying important, not needed, overvoltage when left on auto.
My advice is to get down to 3GHz at 1.35V and start from there. Or just leave it on auto at what you aim for in terms of frequency, and then manually decrease the voltage from there in 0.025V steps without lowering the frquency. Also, if you left all on auto, note RAM voltage as well, and try lowering it a bit, towards chip specifications.
Still, i'm curious what you use for temperature measurment, since 48°C at full load @3.6GHz @1.52V is too low unless you're on watercooling
My advice is to get down to 3GHz at 1.35V and start from there. Or just leave it on auto at what you aim for in terms of frequency, and then manually decrease the voltage from there in 0.025V steps without lowering the frquency. Also, if you left all on auto, note RAM voltage as well, and try lowering it a bit, towards chip specifications.
Still, i'm curious what you use for temperature measurment, since 48°C at full load @3.6GHz @1.52V is too low unless you're on watercooling
Using asus probe and the AI utility that came and the Bios all report the same.. I have the newest bios installed.. I will turn off the auto voltage.. And work it from there.. Im using the Infinity cooler and have a case temp of 26c.. Its cold in my house.. Going to test at 3.4g for a bit before i raise it more.. My Ram is running at 950(475x2) with my pc6400 (400x2) at 1.9volts. Was on auto.. Might turn it down also.. Now really worried about ram at the moment, just wanna see what the safest stable max CPU o/c i can get then adjust ram as needed...
Trust me there is no way (even on water) that you were at 1.5V and 47ºC load.
AISuite is pretty much trash for temps, use Intel's TAT or coretemp.
To the best of my understanding, the voltage is not important. Its all about temps. 85ºc is the max temp a conroe is allowed to run at. Everyone here has a different "safe temp", personally mine is ~70ºC, but I'm hardcore-don't-give-a-shit (lol) other people may have had to save up for the chip so they may feel that 60ºc is absolute max.
So, it is possible you are at 47º but your room must be cold. You're sure you are not looking at the system temp right ? Thats about correct for what you're doing.
As long as your temps are OK then crank it up, also, I usually start overclocking with ram first.
AISuite is pretty much trash for temps, use Intel's TAT or coretemp.
To the best of my understanding, the voltage is not important. Its all about temps. 85ºc is the max temp a conroe is allowed to run at. Everyone here has a different "safe temp", personally mine is ~70ºC, but I'm hardcore-don't-give-a-shit (lol) other people may have had to save up for the chip so they may feel that 60ºc is absolute max.
So, it is possible you are at 47º but your room must be cold. You're sure you are not looking at the system temp right ? Thats about correct for what you're doing.
As long as your temps are OK then crank it up, also, I usually start overclocking with ram first.
Download the CoreTemp program and be prepared for a surprise.
http://www.thecoolest.zerobrains.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=137
Micron based DDR2 memory chips, whether they are stamped as 667, 800 or even beyond are all pretty much the same. The ones that leave the factory with a 1.8 volt rating are identical to the ones that are rated at 2.1 volts or 2.2 volts so don't be afraid to see what they'll do.
DDR2-950 is common for DDR2-667 rated memory with the appropriate timings and voltage.
As long as you are Orthos stable on both cores you'll be fine. If you use too much voltage and have too much heat then this program will stop running long before your rig catches on fire.
http://sp2004.fre3.com/beta/beta2.htm
The C2Ds are amazing chips and can take some extra stress. They left the factory with a huge amount of headroom so don't be scared to use it. If AMD had something more competitive they wouldn't have been able to release the E6300/E6400 chips. No competition means Intel can release processors that overclock to the moon and release higher MHz processors in a year or so when they need to. People that aren't afraid to overclock get next year's computer today.
http://www.thecoolest.zerobrains.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=137
Micron based DDR2 memory chips, whether they are stamped as 667, 800 or even beyond are all pretty much the same. The ones that leave the factory with a 1.8 volt rating are identical to the ones that are rated at 2.1 volts or 2.2 volts so don't be afraid to see what they'll do.
DDR2-950 is common for DDR2-667 rated memory with the appropriate timings and voltage.
As long as you are Orthos stable on both cores you'll be fine. If you use too much voltage and have too much heat then this program will stop running long before your rig catches on fire.
http://sp2004.fre3.com/beta/beta2.htm
The C2Ds are amazing chips and can take some extra stress. They left the factory with a huge amount of headroom so don't be scared to use it. If AMD had something more competitive they wouldn't have been able to release the E6300/E6400 chips. No competition means Intel can release processors that overclock to the moon and release higher MHz processors in a year or so when they need to. People that aren't afraid to overclock get next year's computer today.
Interesting to see that there's no real problem with high vcores anymore. Remember SNDS anyone? Guess we're past those days??
Also, an aside question, back in the day, ram dividors would cause issues with raising fsb on most old chipsets. Are these still such a problem?
Also, an aside question, back in the day, ram dividors would cause issues with raising fsb on most old chipsets. Are these still such a problem?