Barton 2500+ @ 3200+? running slow!

[domwells]

Okay I'm slightly confused, I followed advise allowing me to clock to 190 * 11 stable... I then clocked to 195 * 11 giving me a BSOD on entering windows... Fine I thought to myself I'll give it a wee bit more voltage that'll sort it, and lone behold it did...
1.725V Vcore setting in BIOS allowed me to get to 200 * 11 with my RAM running at 166 Dual Channel mode. (2.5 3 3 7) AND it benchmarked fine on 3DMark 2001se (here is the confusing part) my score came out at 12000 (I get 12500 stock and 13300 at 190 * 11).
In MBM 5 it told me the Vcore is 1.78V not 1.725V and the temp maxed at around 57oC in the test.

I have heard that P4's slow themselves down to prevent overheating do you think this is the case or is there another reason why a faster proccy would run slower???

By the way im running a stock heatsink / fan, im gonna upgrade to a volcano 11+ I think I'm just a little bit afraid my computer will sound like a helicopter (any thoughts).

Thanks.

 

[domwells]

anyone any ideas?

 

[Demalii]

iono what your deal is, but perhaps a crappy chip, and you're just stressing it, remembar not ever peice of hardware can go as far as others, but i don't think that's the case... i have a v12+ @ 3500rpm's (almost silent) with a temp of about 40C

 

[domwells]

so are you saying that it is a heat related issue or a crappy chip??

 

[Grasu]

Could you please post more details about your configuration? I mean when you had a 13300,12500,12000 points, what was your frequency for FSB, memory, etc?

 

[domwells]

kk,
CPU @ 11 * 166, Vcore @ 1.69, RAM @ 166 gives 12500 approx.
CPU @ 11 * 190, Vcore @ 1.69, RAM @ 158 gives 13300 approx.
CPU @ 11 * 200, Vcore @ 1.78, RAM @ 166 gives 12000 approx.
The above scores are all 3dMark 2001se.

 

[Grasu]

It does look strange. Is the 12000 score consistent? How many times you run the tests. Before playing with voltages buy a better cooler. Personally I suggest to buy a v12+ cooler it does sound like a vacuum cleaner at max speed (5400rpm I think) but you can always reduce the speed to 2000rpm and runs very silent. My rig is running now at 2.5Ghz (230x11, 1.8V) with the memory at 166Mhz.
Grasu

 

[domwells]

I only ran it through the test once because the score made me think that I was damaging something... Does it sound like something that could be caused by too much heat?
I read somewhere that P4's slow themselves down to prevent overheating.
What are your temps at 2.5GHz Grasu?

 

[domwells]

I've just been looking around at coolers... what do you think of the Aero 7+???

 

[Grasu]

Aero 7+ looks a very good option. As far as I can see from a quick look at reviews, it will do the job.

For the temperature, I will let you know in 1-week time (I have to build a temperature monitoring device). For the moment, I have no idea because I have no sensor attached to the CPU and personally; I don't trust the bios values. However I think is below 50 C because the air coming out of the heat sink isn't even worm. Usually my rule is that if you can't keep your hand for 1 minute on the heat sink (because is too hot) than the temperature is above 60 C. (the fan is rinning at full speed)

I read somewhere that P4's slow themselves down to prevent overheating.

I don't know about P4, but I never heard of such feature on AMD stuff. (maybe is true for laptop thing)