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[Chrishuff1]

Ok, I have a Duron 700, I want to get it to 1Ghz. It is running at 900Mhz right now. It is at 1.5v. What is the safest voltage to go up to, and how will I know if I went to far on the voltage? I am running a Asus A7V with 128 megs of RAM. Please let me know!

Thanks,
Chris

 

[AMDPwred]

I'm right there with you:

Duron 750
ASUS A7V133
256MB PC133 RAM

You can run up to 1.85v. What is your multiplier/fsb set at for 900? Is it 9x100?

 

[Chrishuff1]

Ya, I saw that you could take it up to 1.85, but is that safe? I dont wana burn this chip up, and i will be setting up a system for my friend exactly like mine, and wana get an idea. actually it is 9.5x100.

 

[AMDPwred]

<< actually it is 9.5x100 >>



That would be 950mhz then If you are that high at 1.5v then bump it to 1.7 and try 10x100. There is your 1ghz and 1.7 is ok for voltage (check those temps).

1.85v isn't bad but you don't want to run it any higher than you need to. Just keep checking your temps.

 

[Chrishuff1]

How do I go about checking my temps? Is ther a program i can run in the back ground that shows my temps in the system tray?

 

[AMDPwred]

You can check them in BIOS or on your ASUS CD there is a program called ASUS Probe. Install that and it will keep track of them and alert you if they get too high. It will also tell you fan speeds and your system specs and everything. So how is the 10x100 coming along?

 

[Chrishuff1]

Its running at 58 degrees celcius. Havent tried it at 1gz, yet.

 

[AMDPwred]

That's about what mine runs at. I'm still waiting on my 2 80mm high output Sunon case fans and my Delta high output CPU fan. I'm hoping to take my temps down to below 50C. Oh and I've also got some Artic Silver II coming in too.

 

[WarCon]

The safe voltage for your durons is 10% above. But I personally have run my old duron 600 @ 1.85vcore to achieve 950mhz and it was stable. I really don't know what it was doing to the chip, but honestly they are pretty cheap and if you toast one after a year it gives you an excuse to buy a t-bird.....

Isn't the default voltage for the duron 1.65v? I am downloading the tech docs right now (PDF file), so I will post the official setting for that chip as soon as it comes in.

 

[Chrishuff1]

It doesnt like 10x100

 

[WarCon]

Ok I was wrong. The default voltage according to the spec sheets is 1.6v and the max that AMD recommends is 1.7v.

As far as your overclock goes, what heatsink are you using? Cooling is very important.

And are you using thermal compound? I would recommend Arctic Silver II. It doesn't dry up under the heat from an AMD processor.

 

[Chrishuff1]

Well now, It doesnt want to run at 950. It is back down to 900@1.5v. I dont know what the heatsink is. It looks like a volcano 2 or whaterver, it just doesnt have that same fan on it. but besides that, i have thermal paste on it and an aditional fan blowing on it.

 

[mstudd]

If you're running at 58 deg, you really should start to look at your cooling before you OC much more. In particular, look at your thermal paste: has it dried up, or have you put too much on? Your HSF: Does it make good contact with the CPU (you will see it in the contact pattern in the paste
or thermal pad when you take the HSF off).
This sounds way too hot to me, especially with only 1.5v core voltage.
My Duron 800 runs happily, at 1 Gig, well under 50 deg with a low output, low speed fan on my HSF. (1.65v)


Just my opinion.

 

[Chrishuff1]

How do i know if i have put too much on or not enough?

 

[Killrose]

If you're running at 1.5volts, and getting 58c temp, then you have a cooling problem, or something is being mis-reported. You only want enough thermal compound to cover the core, that would be a thin coating.
Also some cores only overclock so far. From 700 to a 900MHz overclock is not bad. Also you might want to overclock your ram to obtain 900MHz.
If your ram will do 150MHz try a 6x150 ratio. It will smoke a 9x100 ratio.

 

[DieselMan]

Yeah, cooling is more important than the actual voltage!

What heatsink/fan are you using?

I have a celeron 750@1Ghz; I use a PEP66 with the fan rotated 90 degrees so the fan faces up, and my temps at full load are 42 degree C. Now get this: I run it with 1.97V completely stable! So if you can get a cooler that will keep your temps around 40 degrees C at 1.5-1.7V, you can safely try 1.85V.

 

[Chrishuff1]

I dont know the type of heatsink/fan i have. Like i said above, it looks exactly like the volcano 2, but it doesnt have the same fan on it. last time i checked the temp was runnin at 50c.

&quot;If your ram will do 150MHz try a 6x150 ratio. It will smoke a 9x100 ratio.&quot; What do you mean by that? And how do i overclock my ram?

 

[HardwareAddicted]

I have my Duron 600 at 1050 or 7 x 150 on the Epox 8K7A. stable!

I am using about 2.16 volts with a Taisol 742 w/27cfm fan.
( Lapped to 2000 grit and Arctic Silver )

My temps are about 100-105f

On my old MSI KT133 mb I had it to 10 x 100 w/1.9 volts stable. (Temp was about 90f-95f)

So get GOOD cooling on shoot for the moon....

I really wanted a T-Bird so I pushed this thing to see how far it would go....
and so far I can't justify a T-Bird because this thing just ROCKS !!

I will get a Athlon 4 soon though...

Just remember that you will only get as far as the weakest link in your system.

 

[Chrishuff1]

Mine is running at 131F right now. And thats at the default voltage and normal speed, not over clocked. i am going to put some more thermal paste on it....

 

[Chrishuff1]

I don't know what I am doing wrong. I have a thin layer of thermal paste between the heatsink and cpu, i have even bumped it down to 8.5x100. And its running at 60C. WHAT AM I DOING WRONG!?

 

[Killrose]

First off becareful or you're going to get frustrated and then chip the core. 60C is too hot. Look at the heatsink and see if the bottom looks flat. Also if it has the thermal tape on it remove it. Make sure your fan is spinning, and check the speed as well. Maybe the fan is not spinning fast enough. You should see at least 4300rpm. Just as a reference, my system reports temp of 45-46C after 2-3hrs of CS. Of course reported temps from system to system vary, but 58-60C is too hot.

 

[Chrishuff1]

Well in dos, it says 51C and in windows under the asus probe it says 61c, then i go back to the bios and it says 51C. i dont know which one to go by. and what do you mean &quot;thermal tape removed&quot;?

 

[iamthesystem]

<< If your ram will do 150MHz try a 6x150 ratio. It will smoke a 9x100 ratio. >>




so you're saying the ram will smoke at a lower bus speed?????

that puzzles me...

 

[Chrishuff1]

ya, do explain what that means.........

 

[DiamondFire13]

I think that he means it will be much faster. you will have much quicker access to your memory, speeding up your system. A system running at 100x10 at 1GHz will be slower than a system runing at 150x6 at 1GHz. Actually the difference will be somthing like 10% or even more depending on the app.

Paul