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E5200 overclocking

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Just finished a budget build for my office (grad student) and I have an E5200 paired with a Biostar TP43D2-A7 board (although I have read people saying they received a TP45D2 instead, and CPU-Z shows the mobo as P45, but I haven't bothered checking the writing on the mobo...but back to the topic at hand). I built it at home and got a stable oc at 3.6 (12.5 * 290) at +15% voltage - the BIOS options suck on this board, which should be 1.38V. When I took it to my office, it failed Intel Burn Test almost immediately. The temperature in the office is probably ~6-8 deg F warmer than at my house, but is that all that is really causing it? Realtemp only shows 60 deg C before my computer restarts, and I have a hard time thinking its temperature related (TJMAX = 100C). I had to lower it to +10% voltage and FSB at 275 (3.4 GHz) to finally get a stable clock, and it hits 59C in Intel Burn. Is there something I'm overlooking or is it just shutting down due to thermals?

Other specs: OCZ PC2-8500 ram @ 870 (for FSB = 290), 2.2V, Chipset Voltage + 0.20, and I forgot the name of the other option...FSB maybe? +0.10V. TIA
 
The CPU should not shut off until it has exceeded a temperature of 100C. I would think that the issue is something else.
 
Maybe. I suggest you play around with the other voltages and see if you can get it stable. VTT might help a lot.
 
Yeah...I upped the VTT to +0.20V and got 3.63 stable. Do you know a program to monitor voltages such as VTT & NB/SB in windows? Does Everest allow this?
 
I'm not familiar with software to monitor voltages, although it doesn't really matter since you won't get accurate readings from any of them anyway.
 
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