Newcastles suck.

[Bloody_Sorcerer]

Ugh. My system is such crap. Newcastle 3200 0418 CBASC that *used* to be able to do ~2.6 ghz on air and water. So, last night, I was encoding a bunch of movies. Since I usually run at stock speeds, I thought I'd OC a bit for a change and try and speed it up a bit, so, to be safe (and since the K8N Neo Platinum is a steaming POS) I only did 2375 mhz. This morning, I wake up, turn my monitor on, and am greeted by everyone's best friend: the BSOD.
OK, so this is a pretty lame thread, but I'm just ranting here. I can't wait until my chip degrades so much that its not even stable at stock clocks.
And yes, it is definitely the CPU; my ram is TCC5 that can run 250+ (my mobo craps out at 250 HTT) at 2.5-3-3-10-2T. 1T craps out around 225-230 HTT.
And yes, I was overvolting in hopes of getting stability at freakin 2375mhz. I loathe my newcastle.
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[Calderbrae]

I can feel your pain.

Sitting on a 3500+ New Castle that can barely manage 400MHz over stock clocks.

Looking at Opttys on eBay....so very tempting. Kinda hard to spend $400+ on an Optty when I can get a X2 for less.

[Stuperman]

I have a 3500+ 0419 CBASC that won't prime for more than 12 minutes @ 10x233, using DDR500......

I also have a POS mobo which might be my problem.

[IvanAndreevich]

I don't think a chip should degrade at all considering you ran it stock all the time. Sounds like something else

[CandymanCan]

Odd my 3000+ Newcastle is an 0416 date CBASC also, and it overclocks to 2750mhz 1.75v for its max and 24/7 speeds are 2600mhz using 1.6v. It hasnt degraded @ all. Must be something else. Maximum HTT speed is about 325 or 330 HTT

I can feel your pain.

Sitting on a 3500+ New Castle that can barely manage 400MHz over stock clocks.

Looking at Opttys on eBay....so very tempting. Kinda hard to spend $400+ on an Optty when I can get a X2 for less.


Try pricewatch, a 165 Opty duel core is $325, the x2 3800 with less cache is $290 not much of a price diff

[DaWaN]

I think your motherboard died, I've seen many of those s754 nForce 3 MSI board dieing !!

[high5]

i also had a crappy Newcastle, CBAEC 0435VPDW.

~2.35GHz was the max and memory controller was limited to ~230MHz w/ 1T. :rolleyes:

2T no problem upto 275MHz.

[speed bump]

I don't know my 2800 newcastle seems to love volts but does 400mhz over stock if the non PCI locked Kt800 chipset will let it on that day.

[[ZIZI]]

personally i loved my newcastle when it was still alive...alas too bad i was not able to attach it to my incoming SS :( :( :(

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=76124&highlight=%5BZIZI%5D

It seems as though quite a few people had some fun with newcastles :D

As the previous posters, pointed out though, i believe that it is not the CPU giving you headaches...i too believe that it is probably your mb craping out.\
[ZIZI]