My preciouss...... prescott

[orionman]

Hi all,
I have a P4-650 3.4GHz
ASUS P5LD2

I have reached 4.1 GHz STABLE on stock voltage and I'm so surprised. I'm begining to wonder if I'm about to damage my chip. I have not touched the vCore but it is set to 'auto' and I fear the mobo is increasing it by itself, CPU-Z still says 1.424 (same as before). Is it possible to go that high without any voltage increase?? My memory is set to 'auto' too and I saw the mobo changing timings to keep it stable... all by itself... It's a good thing but I'm seriously wondering how far the motherboard could go to keep it stable... (like touching voltages)

Also, the LOAD temp. is around 55-56C, (51-52C at stock speed). I know, if I keep these settings, I'll buy a better cooling system, I was just trying to push it a bit to see if a new cooling device would be worth the buy. But DamN! I'm impressed, my old northwood 3.0GHz C got unstable on stock voltage at 3.25 Ghz.

My priority is to keep my processor healty, my computer is new, and I'll keep it for a long time.

Any advice?, any opinion? Please if you have no idea, do not recommend me any thing lol. I know how some of you guys are... I've been reading THG for a while now 😉

thx guys

Orion

 

[luminaris]

As long as the temps don't reach any higher for now, you'll be fine. The temps are what you really need to worry about. I would suggest going with a Zalman CNPS7700 air cooler. Once you change that, you should be able to take it higher and keep moderate temps. Mine runs at 33-35 idle and under load hangs right around 47-50C.

If your going to change coolers, get AS5 too. That will help dissipate heat better.

 

[orionman]

The temps on my old northwood were over 60C most of the times at stock speed. Thx for the advice, anyone else would recommend that cooler?

Orion

 

[WINDSHEAR]

if I were you I'd set the settings to manual, set the vcore at stock, and relax the timings manually. Extreme heat can damage a processor, but when you are overclocking the real thing is overdoing the voltage. 4.1Ghz is no surprise to me. Intel's are good overclockers.. and if you overclock high enough, you should be able to beat a lot of AMD's 8)

 

[orionman]

Thx!

Any idea where I can get the official voltage of my P4-650? on Intel's website?


Orion

 

[WINDSHEAR]

no I don't think Intel posts the voltages... but I don't know,.... however, there have been charts made. This one comes to mind: http://images.tomshardware.com/2006/01/05/the_65_nm_pentium_d_900s_coming_out_party/cpu_table_intel_big.gif

 

[orionman]

Good,

I'm shopping for a good HS and a Ram heatsink, I know this not the right forum, but if I keep stock voltage, is there any need for a watercooling setup?

Orion

 

[luminaris]

I don't see a need for watercooling unless your going into extreme OC'ing. Mine runs cool just on air. Like I said, just keep an eye on the temps and you should be fine.