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What methods / programs do you use to increase OCs?

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finalgt

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I guess this thread can serve a dual purpose; for one, you can say what you use to help advance your overclocks, and for another, you can help me advance my overclock, heh. The fastest it would appear I can get Prime95 to run for more than 6 hours on my 3200+, MSI K8N Neo2 and SLK-948U is 2.4 ghz (240x10). I've been doing that at 1.60Vcore with the hopes that it will burn in the processor and I'll be slowly able to get my system Prime-stable at higher clocks. Or, at least, that's the way it worked with my experience with Athlon XPs.

Are Athlon 64s a different deal when it comes to burning in? A couple nights' worth of running Prime 95 (it finally generates an error after about 10-11 hours) at 2.4ghz and 1.6V hasn't yielded any headroom whatsoever; Prime crashes within 4 hours at 2.45, within 3 at 2.5. My goal is to get it to at least 8, at 2.6 ghz. Think it's possible, and if so, how?

(btw, the RAM is Corsair PC3200 XMS CAS2...so it shouldn't be a limiting factor. Nor should PSU)
 
Interesting that you observed cpu burn in increases overclocking. I think most people have the opposite experience. CPU just decreases overclock over time. RAM on the other hand seems to overclock better after burn-in.
 
joecuddles said:
Looks like you hit your own personal wall.
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Yeah, I was afraid of that. Well, hopefully I'll be able to eventually get it to run at 240x10 at 1.4 or 1.35v. Probably no chance in hell, but who knows.
 
Generally I always wait a few days before OC'ing. Main reason is I want to make sure everything is stable and in working condition before I start to run it hard.

As for my latest system I just worked out all the bugs and problems. So now I've hit my maximum overclock. 4% from 3.4GHz to 3.58GHz!!!! WooHoo! Go Intel. :rolleyes:

The Intel board is a temporary board though. I got it super cheap. 4% is all that Intel will let you get out of thier boards. So that's all she's got.

I'm waiting on SLi boards with DDR2 support to surface. I've already seen 1 SLi capable Pentium 4 board. Unfortunatley it's made by Gigapoop.
 
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