I am looking for some help with my computer hanging up on me at full CPU load. A bit of a background.
I just recently upgraded to SOYO P4I865PE Plus Dragon 2 v1.0 motherboard to get support for my new AGP 8x card and new Celeron D (Prescott) 3.0 GHz processor. I have two 512 Mb, 336 MHz memory modules installed in dual channel mode. For general use, (like Internet browsing) everything works fine, I can even overclock both the CPU and the memory by about 10 to 12%. However, when running CPU intensive applications like encoding a DVD – computer hangs up. With Prime95 torture test, the computer will hang up in 30 seconds or sooner.
I tried the most relaxed settings, no overclock, memory running at 266 MHz - pretty much the same thing, hangs up with Prime95 in less than a minute.
To test it, I put in there my old Celeron 2.4 GHz – everything is rock solid even when overclocking by 20%. Unfortunately the mobo doesn’t have any options for voltage setting.
One note: SOYO has a bit of discrepancy for this mobo specs, in their product sheet they state Celeron support up to 2.8 GHz but then they refer to another table where they state support up to 3.06 GHz.
So my question is – should I be looking for a new CPU or for a new mobo.
I just recently upgraded to SOYO P4I865PE Plus Dragon 2 v1.0 motherboard to get support for my new AGP 8x card and new Celeron D (Prescott) 3.0 GHz processor. I have two 512 Mb, 336 MHz memory modules installed in dual channel mode. For general use, (like Internet browsing) everything works fine, I can even overclock both the CPU and the memory by about 10 to 12%. However, when running CPU intensive applications like encoding a DVD – computer hangs up. With Prime95 torture test, the computer will hang up in 30 seconds or sooner.
I tried the most relaxed settings, no overclock, memory running at 266 MHz - pretty much the same thing, hangs up with Prime95 in less than a minute.
To test it, I put in there my old Celeron 2.4 GHz – everything is rock solid even when overclocking by 20%. Unfortunately the mobo doesn’t have any options for voltage setting.
One note: SOYO has a bit of discrepancy for this mobo specs, in their product sheet they state Celeron support up to 2.8 GHz but then they refer to another table where they state support up to 3.06 GHz.
So my question is – should I be looking for a new CPU or for a new mobo.