Prescott 2.4 A overclocking results!

[darkecho]

Ok so i got my prescott from newegg (refurbished, ordered friday, received monday!) love newegg, have been buying junk from them for almost 4 years now... spent roughly 4000 bucks lol... anyways... i installed the processor onto my max3 mobo with my ddr 400 dual corsair xms (2x512mb sticks) and overclocked with 1:1 ratio, got up to 3.36 and ran great!!! only prob is that my cd-rom/rw/dvd-rom drive got bitchy and started getting really slow, other than that, everything worked like a dream love this thing... one question though, since it is only 533 mhz fsb, would i get any really performance gain by setting the ram to 5:4 and dropping the timings? i havent even looked at the timings right now, i wonder if they are maybe as low as i want them to go.... hmm curious.. anyway, ill be getting an exos pretty soon, then ill try and reach 3.7 anyone got any suggestions on how to obtain ultimat maximum performance out of this thing? i know the fsb is weak but ill need better cooling to get it up high enough, 800 mhz hopefully, that wont be tooooo bad i guess.... any ideas? too bad i can change the multiplyer :'(

 

[TFR]

Gratz an a nice OC with your Prescott If only I were so lucky (more on that later). Depending on how conservative your ram timings are atm, you could see *up to* a 10% increase in system performance. That 10% could be the difference between cyber life or death, or it could just be a shot to the ego. Depends on how you use your computer. I would check to see if you have the latest firmware for your DVD drive, but if the only effect to your OC is a downsped DVD drive, then take it. To reach 3.7, you'll most likely have to up the Vcore AND go with watercooling, TEC, both, or more extreme. A couple of online reviewers running Abit AI7s hit a wall just shy of 3.7 with their Prescott 2.4s. It doesn't mean that you'll have the same results, but the chips are stacked against you (pun unintended). And remember, a high quality 400+ watt PSU is your best friend.

That said, I can't get my Prescott to cooperate at all. Check my sig for what I have. My memory timmings are stable at 2.5-5-2-2, but my system doesn't even like it when I bump up the fsb from 133 to 135! My computer just reboots during the Windows startup. I also bought Prescott 2.4 at Newegg when they were having a sale for $119. My stock idle temps are right around 40C and my load temps will hit 50C. My case temps are stable at 28C. The only thing that's a little wierd that I can think of atm is that Sandra tells me that my CPU should be running at 1.4 volts, but my bios settings start at 1.5 volts. But +0.1 shouldn't hinder my OC efforts--they should help them, right?