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Originally Posted by bobkoure
Are you using an external radiator box? If not "fans on full" may be air cooling some elements that otherwise might be holding you back.
A P4 means you don't have multiplier control - right? So you're overclocking by increasing overall clock speed? Not a bad approach, but it leaves you unable to under-multiply your CPU while you determine the fastest the rest of your system will go.
Try running with the case open and the fans turned down a bit - and then use a thermal probe (I use the "Mark 1 probe" - AKA "fingertip"  ) to see if there are ancillary chips on your mb running hot. If there are, these might be your problem - try heat-sinking them.
I also find myself wondering as to the advantages/disadvantages of removing a heatspreader from a CPU when using a waterblock. There has got to be additional thermal resistance in the additional boundary the heat has to travel through. I'd thought the point of a WW was minimal distance/resistance for the heat to travel through before it got to water... |
I'm not using an external radiator box.. built into my case..
but I pull the air fresh from out of the case directly to the heater core...
yes my multiplier is locked... so i'm raising my FSB of my CPU right now to 255 mhz.
I have had it running as high as 280 mhz... and ran pretty stable when idle...
it usualy dies after 15 min when I run CPU burn...
also i looked into buying a couple 2-192 heater cores... new... $190CDN each..
to much... scrap that idea...
now considering a chiller... need to find a cheep used dehumidier me thinks...
time to get some ZZzzZZ's