procupine14

so i can go no furtherthan 2.4 Ghz
any point past there is unstable
so anyone else have a better clock for a 3800+ x2?

H3X4D3C1M4L

Alot of people do... just check Google.

Sure you can't give it more voltage? Or upgrade the cooling?

It could be that 2.4 is all the chip had in it

RoyBatty

And why did you start a new thread? You could have simply continued in the original "Need a little advise" one...

procupine14

i dont know that was a "my bad"
sorry

procupine14

but i just tweaked the system and got it up to 2.5 stable and i think its staying there

Zardon

did you give it more core volts?

Zelig

My X2 3800+ tops out at 2.5 GHz, with below stock voltage... any extra voltage doesn't help anything.

It all depends on your chip, anything over stock is a bonus.

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procupine14

with my 3800+ im at 3.5v @2.5
maybe i got a good one?
but stock voltage is stable but the temps at load i dont really like
nothing near core melt but higher than of course normal
but im staying where i am right now
i have the windsor core does that make a difference over the manchester?

procupine14

yeah did that now and to mysurprise i was way under
that was the same problem with my RAM

now i have it where i want it

in all actuality i might try for a higher clock and see if i can get 2.55 or 2.6

if not then a little extra volts never hurt anything lol

procupine14

heres the update
i have tested the max Ghz i can manage without windows restarting and refusing to boot at all since ASUS has that wierd "crash free BIOS" it restarts when it thinks it might crash so im chalking it up to that in the issue with windows. The current situation is this:
252Mhz x10 2.52 Ghz
that is the highest clock without using voltage to increase further anything more than that restarts every time.
i took the clock up to 2.6 and decreased it one step until i got a stable boot and this is where that stays
but as stated earlier any extra voltage doesnt seem to help out a whole lot
but 2.52 isn't bad out of a 2.0 Ghz chip

Zardon

hang on, maybe im reading this wrong - did you say 3.5volts to the CPU?

procupine14

oh no i mistyped
1.35v

Neshi

thank god... or you would be frying it :P
i got mine stable at 1.47V @ 2.6Ghz.
around 35-40 idle (now in the hot weather 40) and under load it just below 60..

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procupine14

so i tried your setup to the same result im stable at 2.6 Ghz
thanks