Was this a bad idea?

[Pepsiboy700]

I currently have my x2 3800+ at 1.7v but the load temps dont go above 40 degrees celcius. Is this ok?

 

[Nitestick]

it certainly is if you don't need it that high

if you are running at 1.7v for 2.5GHz i think it is not worth running the vcore that high. i wouldn't be happy to run a vcore like that unless it was at around about 2.8GHz. you should be able to run 2.7GHz at around about 1.5v :amazed:

 

[Pepsiboy700]

Thats what I said but it only runs one core stable for 8 minutes. I will try it again. Just failed at 1.7v. ****!

 

[Pepsiboy700]

That was the only time I ever ran 1.7v and it was for less than 15 minutes. The highest I have even ran besides that was 1.55v. I am trying 1.5v right now.

Temps have never passed 50 celcius.

 

[Nitestick]

either you have some nice cool room temperatures or your temperature sensor is faulty if it's reading that low for 1.7V. you really shouldn't push much further than 1.7V and if i were you i wouldn't run 1.7V without watercooling. it's ok to run suicide benchmarks at high voltages with air cooling but you wouldn't want to do so 24/7. 1.8V is about the sudden death point for an Athlon64 E revision. if you go much over that the chip will just be nuked.

 

[Pepsiboy700]

I got a big typhoon with a 95cfm fan on it. I have 4 of the same case fans in a room at 60 degrees. Are my temperature sensors faulty now? Lol

 

[Pepsiboy700]

I love you Nitestick, no homo. 1.5v seems to be the sweet spot so far. 1 hour prime stable at 2.5ghz with the ram running 1:1 at ddr500 3-3-2-8 timings. SWEET!

 

[Nitestick]

:amazed:

a thank you would have sufficed . well the fact that 1.5V seems more stable leads me to believe your sensor is faulty. either that or your cpu was simply running too hot to be stable at that voltage. stable temperatures decrease with voltage and clock speed.

 

[Pepsiboy700]

There was an issue where one core failed at 1 hour 16 minutes but I restarted that core and now its 2 hours stable and the other is obviously 3 hours 16 minutes stable. Also maybe its just the game but, when coh is open the pc tends to lag a bit. Like typing and switching programs lags a bit too.

 

[Nitestick]

sorry, if i'm familiar with coh the name isn't coming to me. yeah anyway, voltage and overclocking can do some very funny things it's almost impossible to learn overclocking from the internet. it's just something you learn with practicve and it becomes a part of you. i don't know about you but i don't really think about overclocking any more, you feel the settings. right now you probably either think i've been smoking some wacky-tobaccy or you know exactly what i mean.