CPU Life

[Luke]

nah, it would last years. Instead of it lasting 100 (just an example) years, it would probably last like 7 years...people over estimate what the voltage will do to your cpu. It is unlikely it would even fail from volts anyway.

 

[Da Viksta]

unless you try ramming 2v in the thing...

 

[Luke]

^well yeah lol, i meant it in relative parameters, obviously if you do something stupid it is going to screw things up lol.

 

[CrazeD]

As long as temps are acceptable, your chip will last quite a few years. It will be severely outdated long before it dies, for sure.

 

[Demalii]

xeon 3220 @ 1.5v - 3.4ghz Stable
Been about 8 months now and runs better with every driver update ^^. Current uptime is 17 days. I leave it on all the time and try not to restart it ever, I can always game or run numerous apps without the worry of something happening.

 

[gurusan]

there's no way you should require that voltage for 3.7ghz...if you are having problems attaining a clock then I'm 100% sure something else is holding you back other than the CPU. Is your CPU an E0 stepping?

 

[Oreo]

Yeh it's E0 stepping.

And it could be my ram. But then i tried 3.6ghz at just under 1.4v and it wasn't stable, it was onyl stable after raising it to 1.4v.

 

[gurusan]

Well the P35 is only so-so for clocking 45nm quads...but I'm willing to bet the RAM is your culprit. DDR2 is quite cheap, I recommend picking something better up.

 

[Oreo]

But surely if the ram was the culprit i would only have to be raising ram voltage to keep that stable and not the cpu itself ?

 

[gurusan]

Yes but are you 100% sure it's stable? Try dropping the multiplier to 6x and getting your target FSB stable with the CPU vcore at stock.