ok heres the facts i got a 3.2 ghz northwood trying to overclock it but max it seems to go to is 3.8ghz stable it wont get into windows if i give it more then 1.60 voltage. I also have a 3.0 pressy i switched from to see how far this northy would go i had it running 3.79 ghz stable at 53c the northwood runs 45c full load. Trying to get enugh speed outa northwood so i dont have to fight with my hard to put on heatsink to put the pressy back in. Any suggestions ?
3.2 northwood ?
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Lemme get this straight,
You've got a northy running at 3.8ghz and a pressy running at 3.79ghz, and you are hoping that the northy will go higher as its a faster stock chip?
I'm not sure if you are aware, but the northy chips are faster than their pressy counterparts until the pressy's get past 4.2ghz. Almost all Northy's top out at 3.9-4ghz on air/water. 1.60v is WAY to high for a northy especially on air.
You've got a northy running at 3.8ghz and a pressy running at 3.79ghz, and you are hoping that the northy will go higher as its a faster stock chip?
I'm not sure if you are aware, but the northy chips are faster than their pressy counterparts until the pressy's get past 4.2ghz. Almost all Northy's top out at 3.9-4ghz on air/water. 1.60v is WAY to high for a northy especially on air.
.ya lol but the northwood was a freebie im not really worryied about killing it i got the pressy as the backup. Friend works for a dell repair places when they get pcs they cant fix they trash them and can keep parts so he comes home with cpus hes got a 3.4ghz northwood to im trying to talk him into giving me. My pressy been running 3.6 to 3.79 for 2 years.
ya i got 2 256 and 2 512 but in sandra i do get over 5300 in bandwith so its not real bad. timings are 2.5 3 3 5. Thats with pressy im benchmarking both see which i end up using. Pressy seems to have better bandwith for memory probly cause of the higher fsb it has. But northwood is having more cpu power it seems like.
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name='PV5150' said:Yep all the Northwoods I have read about that suffered S.N.D.S were all on air. They seemed to avoid it when benched at the chilly end of town
Agreed. I crippled my old Northwood at 1.6v 3.9ghz on water cooling. After about a month it wouldn't even run at stock speeds reliably.
ya im switching chips back and forth seeing wat it takes to run the northy with under 1.6 but 1 of my 512s been freakin out for while and only runs in 333 so im losing huge memory bandwith always overclock it back to 400 and more. More i back the northy down on fsb chart and i dont have cash to replace ram nor do i really want to when i upgrade im going ddr2 and a dual core. Hard to beat the pressy memory bandwith with it hiting unmost 1000 more then northwood running 3.75. Now i got it running 3.79 at 42c full load for northwood and the memory bandwith for it is up to 4800 so im happy with that. Seems more it runs higher it can go with same voltages.
