Switched to liquid cooling.....specs

[SOcRatEs]

I got a thermaltake big water cooling system today.
Got it installed without too much headache.
I'm only using it on the cpu until I can get a vga block.

I bumped my fsb from 133 to 166 on p4 2.4c prescott,
getting 25% increase to 3.0.
My temp is idle @ 46°c.
This MoBo (abit IC7-G) lets me lock the agp/pci @ 66/33.

Is there any reason I would need to bump my voltage?

My ram, it looks like got bumped anyway to 208
The system seems stable, going to try some load here in a few.
I'm not too sure what to run to stress test.

Any suggestions?

I attatched a small everest report if you care to take a peek.
Thanks!
SOx

 

[howard_hopkinso]

Hello SOcRatEs.

Try the Prime95 torture test. You can get it HERE

Regards Howard

 

[SOcRatEs]

Thank you

Man! Now thats what I call stress'in out!
Had to back off the OC. to 2.88ghz to get it stable for prime95.

I'm still wondering how far I should tweak the voltage...

Thank you Howard for the link!

 

[SOcRatEs]

OC Update:

Had to back off the OC! Prime95 kicked my booty.
I'm not sure where the weakness is yet. Probably ram.

I get my RMA 6800 gt today and I'm considering a vga water block for it.
Though BFGtech said it would void my lifetime warranty! Now that sucks!
I hear they work well since the 6800 7800 tend to run very hot.
I'm wide open to any suggestions on the cooling mods I'm attempting.

Thanks!

 

[kirock]

OC blog

Hi SOcRatEs: Here's a blog I used for my OC. Now it's for AMD64, but so much about OCing either AMD or Intel are the same I think you might get some good suggestions here to help your stability and keep your % increase high. Just skip past all the AMD chip mumbo at the beginning.

http://forums.extremeoverclocking.com/showthread.php?t=107925

I think the basic idea of turning down your memory bus speed (up the divider) to eliminate the RAM as a limiting factor to reach max CPU OC is still relevant, etc. and stuff like that there.

Good luck.

 

[sllewe]

what voltage are you running that CPU?

 

[SOcRatEs]

My board allows small jumps in vcore, .05 on each step.
1.35 to 1.55V
My stock voltage is 1.360-cpuz

I had it bumped to 1.430 @ 166x3.0ghz and 1.450 @ 160x2.8ghz.
both failed prime95 within 10 mins.

I just added a second stick 512 ddr 400 infineon, matched pair,
for 1g ram. I haven't done any OC yet with this setup.
When I lock the agp/pci clock to 66/33
I thought it would also lock the ram, I was wrong.
I still have to figure out the ratio fsb for ram/cpu.
SPD shows my ram @ 166mhz stock. The 2.8 OC gave me 200mhz on ram,
cpu was 160.
My goal is to clock out @ 2.8 20% increase and be stable.
What I still don't know yet is when I increase the vcore does it also increase the ram voltage too?
Still waiting on UPS for new 6800gt.....nail biter

I hope I'm making sense?!?
Thankz

 

[howdyhowy]

Any hard results on your OCing

I have the same Processor in which you have and was curios of your results.Look at my gallery

 

[werty316]

You don't necessarily need to increase the voltage. Just when you hit any instabilities you should increase the voltage. I don't need to increase the voltage in my 3000+ till I get to anything above 2.5GHz.