Life at 4.1GHz
 

After wanting to overclock, or rather run my system past the 4.0GHz mark, I've finally done it.

My good friend JNAV got me a P4 550, and all I had to trade him was 2 Prometiea's, 2x1GB-kit of Corsair PRO4000, 1GB-kit of OCZ Platnum3200, 1GB-kit of OCZ GOLD 3700, 1GB-kit of OCZ 4200, two P4's 2.4c and 3.0C, TBred 1700 does 2500MHz, Chaintech ZNF3, A64 3400, Danger Den RBX, Danger Den TDX, Hydor L-30, Black Ice Extreme, MSI 915G, P4 530, Gigabyte PCIe 5900, Swiftech MCX4000-Tec, (oh and I helped him get a processor) I still owe him a 1GB-kit of Corsair DDR2-667, and Abit IC7, Epox 4PCA3+, Epox 8RDA. Abit KX7333, Soltech Sl75FRN and a few other things, but that's fair for a Abit AA8 and a P4 550 right?

Anyhoo with a new DD TDX for S-775 here's where I'm at

Re: Life at 4.1GHz
 

thinks so :D


if you have some spare hardware, i would like to give you my p4 WB:grin:

LOL :ws:

Do you seriously need anything? If you can build a waterblock, you could write a waterblock review? I have a friend at http://www.watercooling.de/catalog/ I've been trying to get him and JMKE together for a while now. But maybe I could have him send something your way. Of course you would have to thank and link the store in your review...

How close are you to Germany? Where's Kasterlee? (excuse my ignorance of the area)

kasterlee is 40 km of antwerp(the center of belgium:^D )=>its brussels actualy but :rolleyes:

How close to Weinheim are you?

about 420 km

Email me if your interested in checking out hardware from Cool-Cases.

I have great news (for myself anyway) I knew something was amiss having to run my sysytem at such high vcore in order to run above 4.0GHz or 240FSB. Originally when booting into WindowsXP desktop, the system would fail unless I had the Vcore up to 1.536V.

After sometime I thought to myself, "Why should it take so much current to run an overclock which usually occurs at default? After all the CPU wil boot to 230FSB without touching Vcore, the default is 1.38V. SO I dropped the Vcore to default 1.38V, and she's running at 4.0Ghz just fine. This of course drops the temps significantly. However, this begs the question, "Does burn-in exist?"

Some think burn-in is valid because as electrons pass long their intended interconnects within the processor, the friction existing when a chip is new, begins to change. Analogous to a stream of water, as it flows continually opver time it carves a pathway of least resistence. This may also hold true for microprocessors as the electrons continually flowthey "carve" a path in which resistence is reduced throught the processor. Mnay people belaive "burn-in" does eventually allow their microprocessor's to run better. I know from my audiophile experience this is true, which is why speaker cable and interconnects (high end) are directionaL.

I have not read amperage (current) listed on any processor; only into voltage and min/max heat dissipation from loss in wattage.

I believe "burn-in" is necessary which is not the same as in any mechanical forms. There is "migration" consideration in all metal which effects connectivity.

so much for the conclusion on burn-in from your tabula rasa articles then :^D

Yes that really throw a "wrench" in the works? Well to be honest the argument FOR Burn-In is pretty strong, where physics is concerned.

But HOW to prove it? That's the question? Here's a great page too...