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undefined Alright, so I have a P4 2.6 GHZ, HT with a 200 MHZ FSB (shows up as 800, but it's really 200). Of course, thanks to the good people at Intel, my mulitplier remains 13. I have a stock heatsick/fan on it, but I've got 3 other good fans in the case and my MOBO monitor never shows temps above 40º. So... I went ahead and used my SOFTMENU Bios tool to change the freq to 210 (taking a small jump to 2.7 GHz). Well, it won't boot. For some dumb reason-- and anything between 200-210 boots 'sometimes,' but not reliable enough to keep it OC'd. Well, get this: I was curious and put it at 214-- and it worked! But, only for a bit. Once I restarted I couldn't get it going. I had it OC'd at 209 for over a week-- with no problems and no high temps above 40 still. So what's the deal?
I've messed with the voltages a bit and to reach the 214, I had to increase the Vcore of the CPU-- but I couldn't go above it and I can't reach 210-214. I don't think it has to do with heat, and I've tried practically every volt combo. I'm kind of stuck here-- but I read that this CPU overclocks well into 3.0+... but I can 'barely' make it to 2.8.
Here are my full specs...
Abit VT7 mobo with VIA PT-880 Chipset
P4 2.6 GHz HT
2 X 512 MB DDR PC-3200= 1G
Radeon 9600 PRO 128MB AGP 8x
Please advise if you know of any suggestions.
Scott
I've messed with the voltages a bit and to reach the 214, I had to increase the Vcore of the CPU-- but I couldn't go above it and I can't reach 210-214. I don't think it has to do with heat, and I've tried practically every volt combo. I'm kind of stuck here-- but I read that this CPU overclocks well into 3.0+... but I can 'barely' make it to 2.8.
Here are my full specs...
Abit VT7 mobo with VIA PT-880 Chipset
P4 2.6 GHz HT
2 X 512 MB DDR PC-3200= 1G
Radeon 9600 PRO 128MB AGP 8x
Please advise if you know of any suggestions.
Scott
