Now my P4 2.0 northwood hates me!

[_giorgos]

-Gigabyte GA8iexp ver 1.2 P4 2.0-

Yes!It's true!My p4 does want to be overclocked any more after replacing my two ddr pc2100 dimms (384MB) with a brand new 1GB V-data pc3200 dimm.
Before changing the memory i could reach 2.3 Ghz with no issues using the gigabyte's software.Now my pc freezes everytime i change the fsb's value from bios or windows.
Why?
Is it a memory issue? (the memory which supports 400Mhz works at 266)

Thank you in advance

 

[Hale73]

Memory frequency affects the CPU's clock frequency causing a
bottleneck on overclocking because of the processors front side bus but I' m not sure. One question, what motherboard chipset do you have and what is ur timings on ur ram. Last one, does ur system crash with ur 1GB ram? I have a 2.66 Northwood but I can't overclock it coz I have a lenovo pre built PC matched with an IBM motherboard. :roll:

 

[apache_lives]

i used to have issues with corsair memory (XMS3200) with FSB100/400 - manually set the ram timings - that could be it.

 

[_giorgos]

One question, what motherboard chipset do you have

Here are my mobo's informations specs

and what is ur timings on ur ram.

Do you mean this?

or this?

Why writes pc3200 (200MHz)?

Last one, does ur system crash with ur 1GB ram?

No,never!

 

[_giorgos]

Well i have managed to reach 2.4 but setting from bios the ddr at 200MHz and overvoltaging a bit the cpu & the dimm
Here are my stats:



I don't know if is stable or not but want to ask you if worths keeping these settings.
Thanks again

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Also tried 2.5 .Here are sandra's results


But for now i'll stay at 2.3.Seems pretty stable.Do i loose something using the ddr at 230 instead of 266?

 

[apache_lives]

read the overclocking threads here for tips

to check stability download and run prime95

 

[_giorgos]

read the overclocking threads here for tips

Where?Do you have alink plz?