Originally Posted by Kommandant Roβ

my vcore wasn't high enough

Originally Posted by Bs|Archaon

Fair point, but do you have a 3200+ or a Opteron 146? No. Those older 939 CPUs did overclock fairly well (like the similar socket 754 CPUs), but the more recent ones (and the X2 range is about as recent as it gets) can be a problem. Now, yes, I'm sure you can find on the internet somewhere that someone has overclocked one to 3GHz or something; but that doesn't mean you can do it with your setup. Really, if you wanted to overclock you should've stayed with your P4 lol. Although they do vary, they can take a hell of a lot of abuse when overclocking.

Originally Posted by Bs|Archaon

Couldn't you up the vcore a bit? If heat wasn't a problem that means you should be able to put a bit more power through it safely.

Originally Posted by C38368

That's a huge misconception about overclocking. SNDS was quite the plague a couple years ago because quite a few people took that line of thought.
Too much voltage can (and will) kill a chip long before the temps go critical in many cases.

And FWIW, And the 939 1xx Opterons have become the new darlings of AMD overclockers everywhere. Even Denmark.

Originally Posted by C38368

That's a huge misconception about overclocking. SNDS was quite the plague a couple years ago because quite a few people took that line of thought.
Too much voltage can (and will) kill a chip long before the temps go critical in many cases.

Originally Posted by Bs|Archaon

I take it you've put 1.925V through a Northwood C P4, then?

Originally Posted by Bs|Archaon

I take it you've put 1.925V through a Northwood C P4, then?

Originally Posted by xephus

What mobo u using - may be a simple vcore mod to allow higher voltage if your bios vcore setting is at max.

Originally Posted by Kommandant Roβ

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