Overclocking for kicks
Ok, so 2.2ghz was never enough, and 2.64 was getting old… so I figured that I’d push on my CPU a little harder. I thought I was running into instability problems from my Chipset so I got a heatpipe cooler for it (the extreme spirit II from Thermaltake). When I ran into instabilities with my overclock I started upping the voltage little by little to the chipset, which didn’t do anything… so I put it back at stock and started pumping volts into my RAM since I can send it to 2.9volts w/o voiding the warranty. Neither helped stabilize the system but when I got the CPU to 2.4volts it has been running perfectly stable on Prime95 for 8 hours now! I’ll come back and post some Screenshots when I end Prime95 with everything so it shows the time it’s run stable and what not.
Only 55mhz faster than what it was running before. I’d push it to 3.0ghz if I had a spare mobo sitting around, along with a more powerful PSU, I’d also like 6 Vantec Tornado fans in my case rather than these generic fans that barely move 40cfm each. CPU is sitting pretty at 33° Celcius, Chipset 27°C, and RAM 31°C (sorry I use thermal probes so I can’t give screenshots for those, and if I did it’d say that my CPU was running at 22°C because my motherboards heat sensors are retarded).