3.2E Prescott temp help

Racerboyf1 · Post by **Racerboyf1** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 11:44 am

P4 3.2E @ 3.6 (225x16) idle 46c. Load 55c.
1gb (2x512) Corsair pc-3200xl pro @ 225 @ 2.5 3 3 7 (I can't get it over 212 @ 2 2 2 5)
x800xl @ 456/564

I know the Prescott runs hotter than the Northwood that I was using before. I just need to know what is too hot.

Thanks,
Chris

kenc51 · Post by **kenc51** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 12:22 pm

60C should be your max temp when overclocking a prescott

Try to keep below 50C if poss!
You can try lowering the voltage a tad and test for stability, if it's still stable, it will lower your temps!

Racerboyf1 · Post by **Racerboyf1** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 2:27 pm

I lowered the voltage and the idle temps dropped to 42c which is what it was running before running it up to 3.6. 55c is absolute max after playing fear for 45 minutes. Seems to be totally stable with these settings. I'm running the Cooler Master Hyper48, but I have nothing to compare it to because I installed it with the prescott and never ran the stock cooler.

kenc51 · Post by **kenc51** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 2:40 pm

I'd make sure it's stable by running 2 instances of prime95....

55C is fine

Racerboyf1 · Post by **Racerboyf1** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 4:53 pm

How do I run 2 instances of Prime95. It ran 1 for the las 2 hours and never went over 53c. I also ran burnin test with 55c max. System is still totally stable.

kenc51 · Post by **kenc51** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 4:56 pm

download the version of prime95 that's in a zip file
Extract it to 2 seperate folders and run each.......

p95v2414.zip

bigblockmatt · Post by **bigblockmatt** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 4:59 pm

whats prime 95?

infinitevalence · Post by **infinitevalence** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 5:01 pm

Prime95 is the ONE and ONLY true test for stablity. When your computer is prime stable for 24 hrs then your computer is stable.

kenc51 · Post by **kenc51** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 5:02 pm

bigblockmatt wrote:whats prime 95?

It's a program which calculates prime numbers.....It's usefull when testing/stressing your system.....It normally finds an unstable overclock prity quickly. Most people will run it for @ least 12hrs to make sure their overclock is stable, some will even do a 78hr run....

Racerboyf1 · Post by **Racerboyf1** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 8:50 pm

Here is my best OC so far. I can browse the web, but I can't run any benchmarks at that speed. It does run good at 3.6 though.

Racerboyf1 · Post by **Racerboyf1** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 12:39 pm

Ok so you can't see the pic now, but it was at 3.85 (16x240)
Memory at 240 (2.5 3 3 7)

Black Mesa Scientist · Tue Feb 28, 2006 11:36 am

That's a nice overclock . Can you post some benchy improvements?

Racerboyf1 · Post by **Racerboyf1** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 2:46 pm

At a stable clock of 3.6 (16x225) 3DMark01 went from 19591 to 22167. 3DMark03 went from 10550 to 12074. 3DMark05 went from 5567 to 5744.

kenc51 · Post by **kenc51** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 3:03 pm

post your results in our 3d mark threads Link
Link

Pls post only results in these threads!

Imakeholesinu · Post by **Imakeholesinu** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 6:48 pm

That's a pretty high memory clock speed of 240Mhz. Guess you don't have value ram in there.

wuzy · Post by **wuzy** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 7:05 pm

The higher you go, the lower it has to be.

A good yard stick is when your system becomes unstable when a certain temperature is reached at a particular clock speed.

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http://users.erols.com/chare/elec.htm

you can see how much can your cpu temp should be..
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