CPU oc'ing

Well not to long ago i was going to upgrade from my quite good computer to a brand spankin new beast. Unfortunately, my car had other plans in mind. So now needing to buy a car, my budget has decreased to around 300 or so(need down payment). Sorry for the length! System Specs:

2.53ghz @ 2.8ghz p4(b)
1024MB 1066 RDram (kingston)
Gigabyte GA-8iHXP
WD 80gb hd (SE 8mb cache)
9700pro (ATi) Oc'd 356-core/340-ram

As of just recently i started OC'n my proc again. It wasnt going all to well. It seems to run okay and temps are good but its been restarting at random. Sometimes right after it gets to desktop or right in the middle of vicecity it will just decide it wants to restart. So i increased the vcore by .50 and enabled an option called Dimm overvoltage(think thats it). It still restarts just not as much. Again temps are fine. So my question is would i be better off buying a new 3.06 with ht, will it have that much of a speed difference? This board has no agp lock so i thought maybe it was messing to much with the grfx card and messing stuff up. Dont know, thas why i'm here.

ALL HELP IS APPRECIATED!!!



The customer is not always right.
If they were, they would do my job.

i would say no to the 3.06

3 386DX-25's...12 volts...glue some ln2 and a wicked amount of overclocking and you get a willamantee minus 36 pins, 33.75 million transistors and a couple hundred mhz...

You could upgrade to a 3.06... but would be completly pointless, and you'd find it hard to notice a difference....

You have a heavyweight system there dood. You'll have no problems with all the latest and greatest games/apps, with monster detail levels, for at least 6 months, probably more.

I'd stick with what you have, and spend all that money you obviously have lying around on partying... or save it and upgrade after all the prescott/A64/etc dust has settled...

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$hit Happens. I just wish it would happen to someone else for a change.

Thx!...for responses did some memory messing and toned it down from the 300mhz over clock, now its like 280mhz oc. Now it works like a charm.

Not that it has anythin to do with this board but anyone touched a zalman heatpipe vga cooler?? I have an aluminum case and good air flow. $30-35 for less heat and maybe more performance....hmm.



The customer is not always right.
If they were, they would do my job.

LOL..

<b>ur comp suxx! face it and live with it!!</b>

Aight its a go on the zalman. I figure if it doesnt even overclock anymore it will atleast run cooler than what its at now with the normal hS.

Only need 9734582789 to catch crashman!!! w00t!!!



The customer is not always right.
If they were, they would do my job.