GNDS and Extreme Editions

[Falkentyne]

Hope this is the right place for this...

Has anyone seen/experienced GNDS with these EE processors, when overclocked to max stable settings, and a small vcore boost (or more?).

I mean, voltages such as 1.60v on the low end, to about 1.7 on the high end?
(air or water).

I've seen a few posts with people with M0 stepping CPU's (L3 cache disabled perm) suffering from GNDS even with a modest voltage increase.

One of my regular 3.4C's suffered GNDS (lost 125 mhz overclock) at -just- 1.625v. (default is 1.55) :confused:

I haven't had GNDS yet, but I don't keep my CPU overclocked and 1.60v 24/7, I set it up for games, then -underclock- it (and lower vcore below stock (1.575v = stock (Box MAX/Intel spec sheet) to 1.55, when finished.)

[masterofpuppets]

GNDS = Gallantin Nsomething Death Syndrome? I have had my 3.4EE at suicidal voltages with no problem. Although, it won't overclock with clockgen anymore without freezing.

[Falkentyne]

Well GNDS means Gradual Northwood Degrading/Death syndrome.. slowly losing the overclock.

The Gallatin -is- a northwood, just with added L3 cache...right?

[enzoR]

nop.... gallatin is a different core... its different from northwood and prescott. though it bares lots of similarities to northwood (same architecture...)

[masterofpuppets]

Gallantin is the old Xeon and the EE version is just got extra cache and added Northwood features right?

[jjcom]

A Galltin IS a Northwood with 2mb of L3. Nothing is different from the two. Disable the L3 cache and its that same as Northwood.

[masterofpuppets]

Nope. The gallantin has netburst and lots of xeon features. Its basicly an old xeon with smp disabled and a 800 bus speed.

[jjcom]

All P4s have Netburst. It may be an "old" Xeon, but when you disable the L2 it will preform the same as a equally clocked Northwood. Its just a Northwood with 2mb L3.