Right, so I have this old machine collecting dust, and begging for an overclocking session.
To start - the hard(ware) details.
Mobo - ASUS P4S800
RAM - Generic DDR 400Mhz RAM
CPU - Intel P4 Northwood 2.00 GHz
GFX Card is an Nvidia 4200ti 4x AGP 128MB
It has an Arctic cooler on the CPU.
I cleaned out the PC, applied new thermal paste and reseated/dusted everything. Case has good airflow (generic case with 400W PS) with intake/exhaust 80mm fans front and rear.
In the BIOS I set everything to default and booted the machine. It's running Windows 2000 and I let it update to it's hearts content. No problems so far.
Shut it down, and clocked it by 5%, so pushing it to 210 FSB from 200. Machine crashed on boot.
Dropped it to 0.025 , 205 FSB. Crashed on boot again.
Dropped it to .01, 202 FSB , machine loads but is unstable.
Dropped back to stock and all is ok.
Now I don't think there is a CPU in the world that won't do even 1%, so I have looked elsewhere for the problem. In CPUZ the VCore is being reported as 1.184V I have tried to find the proper default setting for this CPU, but I can't find it anywhere. Anyone have a table like the one that used to exist at overclockers.com? I think this might be too low and could be causing the issues. Any thoughts ?
To start - the hard(ware) details.
Mobo - ASUS P4S800
RAM - Generic DDR 400Mhz RAM
CPU - Intel P4 Northwood 2.00 GHz
GFX Card is an Nvidia 4200ti 4x AGP 128MB
It has an Arctic cooler on the CPU.
I cleaned out the PC, applied new thermal paste and reseated/dusted everything. Case has good airflow (generic case with 400W PS) with intake/exhaust 80mm fans front and rear.
In the BIOS I set everything to default and booted the machine. It's running Windows 2000 and I let it update to it's hearts content. No problems so far.
Shut it down, and clocked it by 5%, so pushing it to 210 FSB from 200. Machine crashed on boot.
Dropped it to 0.025 , 205 FSB. Crashed on boot again.
Dropped it to .01, 202 FSB , machine loads but is unstable.
Dropped back to stock and all is ok.
Now I don't think there is a CPU in the world that won't do even 1%, so I have looked elsewhere for the problem. In CPUZ the VCore is being reported as 1.184V I have tried to find the proper default setting for this CPU, but I can't find it anywhere. Anyone have a table like the one that used to exist at overclockers.com? I think this might be too low and could be causing the issues. Any thoughts ?
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