what voltage barton 3000+ @ 2.6

csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
edited May 2005 in Hardware
Maybe someone can help before I get started here. I suppose I'm just looking for an educated guess here.

Where should I start with my volt settings for 2600mz?
11.0 x 200 = 2200 @ 1.65v or whatever stock is ...
11.5 x 200 = 2300 @ 1.675v
12.0 x 200 = 2400 @ 1.825v
12.5 x 200 = 2500 @ 1.95v
13.0 x 200 = 2600 @ ?.??v

mem @ 2.8v 400fsb for now
nb @ 1.6v
agp @ 1.5v

thanks in advance
csimon

Comments

  • NiGHTSNiGHTS San Diego Icrontian
    edited May 2005
    I know it doesn't help much but I'm worried about pushing my Barton past 1.775v, which I have to run it at to keep it at the 3200+'s speeds.
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited May 2005
    Is it running watercooled, Chris? If so, this page here shows the Barton's with a max Vcore of 2.0v. If you are air cooling it, then good luck getting it to survive even at 2500 MHz as that is some serious volts you are giving it. :eek:
  • lemonlimelemonlime Canada Member
    edited May 2005
    I always thought of 1.85V as the 'safe' maximum for good cooling. I think the benefits when you start exceeding 1.9V dwindle pretty quickly, and many NF2 boards start to have higher fluctuations in vcore in this range too..
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited May 2005
    1.85 or 1.9v is pretty much the safe max for great air cooling. I agree with Lemonlime there.
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited May 2005
    muddocktor wrote:
    Is it running watercooled, Chris? If so, this page here shows the Barton's with a max Vcore of 2.0v. If you are air cooling it, then good luck getting it to survive even at 2500 MHz as that is some serious volts you are giving it. :eek:
    Yeah it is watercooled.
    I'm at 1.95v now running stable @ 2.5gz.
    In the past I've gotten it to 2.6ghz stable but I was at 2.0v or a little better with the slk-947a cooler. I think I was a tad over 2.0v to be honest but with summer temps I had to back way down to 1.825v or even lower.
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited May 2005
    yeah it surely states 2.0v as top end so I think I should stick with the 2400-2500 clocked range. I may try 2600 @ 2.0v a little later to see if it's stable or not.

    thanks
    csimon
  • lemonlimelemonlime Canada Member
    edited May 2005
    My Barton 3000+ couldn't easily break 2.4GHz with load temps in the 30s (Most don't do much better than 2.3 on air), so I'd say you are doing very well in the 2400-2500 range! :thumbsup:
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited May 2005
    ok here I am at 2.5gz

    My mem is @ 2.9v and my fsb is @ 1.7v.

    Everything is stable but I'm wondering if I can turn down some voltage somewhere to conserve on temps?
    I'd like to keep my pc3500 bh5 @ 2-2-2-11

    anyone?
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited May 2005
    Chris

    If you have been keeping your memory @ 200 and I recall you are running the Mushkin PC-3500 Level II (BH-5) which is what I had. You don't need to increase your voltage till you get to 215 to 220 fsb. I was able to run mine at 225 w/ 2-2-2-11 @ 2.8V on my NF7-S. so why don't you try running somthing more like that with a lower multi, or are you locked? You also don't need anything higher on the chipset voltage than stock till you get the fsb above 225.
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited May 2005
    mtgoat wrote:
    Chris

    If you have been keeping your memory @ 200 and I recall you are running the Mushkin PC-3500 Level II (BH-5) which is what I had. You don't need to increase your voltage till you get to 215 to 220 fsb. I was able to run mine at 225 w/ 2-2-2-11 @ 2.8V on my NF7-S. so why don't you try running somthing more like that with a lower multi, or are you locked? You also don't need anything higher on the chipset voltage than stock till you get the fsb above 225.
    okie doke that's exactly what I wanted to hear!
    Temps under load are leveling off now @ 47c cpu & 29c sys.
    If I lower the multi to 11x and up the fsb to 225 that would be good enough ...I wanted to keep my cpu as close to 2500 as I could for folding puposes so that should work.

    So what do you recommend as a multi?

    edit\ nope not locked
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  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited May 2005
    here I am at 223x11.5 and 1.95v ...I'll try lowering to 1.925v
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited May 2005
    Try 11 for starters as that should put you real close to what you want. Have you ever lowered your multi to 10 or so to see how far you could push the fsb? I always loved the old BH-5 as it was great for tight timings @ high fsb.:D
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited May 2005
    yeah I've tried it but my notes all got lost in the move.
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