Okay, all I need is a little advice in overclocking my 2.4 Ghz (800 FSB) Northwood. (D1 revision)
I am not a "hardcore" overclocker, but now I have a Zalman 7000AlCu cooler with Arctic Silver 5, and 1Gb of Geil DDR500 memory, I would like to get somewhere near 3.0Ghz.
I know this can be done, and much higher overclocks are possible with better cooling.
Naturally, for a laugh, I put it at 250FSB straight away, needless to day, this did not work. biggrin.gif
Most importantly, my default vCore is 1.58V. I gather this is bad...so can one of you guys please tell me:
- how high is it "safe" to go on the vCore with this kind of cooling?
( I don't want to significantly shorten the processor's life)
- how high am I likely to need to go to approach 3.0Ghz?
- is my Thermaltake 420W PSU good enough? (http://www.thermaltake.com/purepower/w00089.htm)


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but theres currently 4000 in there to get and keep it stable over 250FSB. Whats strange is that it idles at 29oC at 3.3Ghz, which im not complaining about.
