Too much voltage / instabilty

External Since: Dec 12, 2003 Posts: 13

"when overclocking, bump the voltages up a notch to help with stability"

Most people would go along with this yeah? Been running my Barton 2500 @
180 x 12 @ 1.70 / 1.75 volts. System kept crashing. Took them down to
standard and all is fine with the world. Got better temps as well now due
to the lower voltage which is never bad - 20 above ambient instead of the 25
I used to have.

External Since: Jan 06, 2004 Posts: 30

"Alex" <freeflyer91 RemoveThis @hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:bu19or$63r$1@newsg2.svr.pol.co.uk...
> "when overclocking, bump the voltages up a notch to help with stability"
>
> Most people would go along with this yeah? Been running my Barton 2500 @
> 180 x 12 @ 1.70 / 1.75 volts. System kept crashing. Took them down to
> standard and all is fine with the world. Got better temps as well now due
> to the lower voltage which is never bad - 20 above ambient instead of the
25
> I used to have.
>
>

Some of the 2500s need the extra Vcore and some don't. You got lucky but
mine needs 1.70 Vcore for stability at 3200+ level (11x200).

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