I was thinking about trying my luck at building a 2.4C pentium to replace my aging 1600@2200 AGOIA and to go with a new vid card.
Of course I am going to overclock. I was wondering if there is a specific stepping or revision that I should look for aside from the fact that it is an 800 mhz fsb processor.
Also, what are typical results for the 2.4C. I looked on VR-Zone and of course I saw all of those outrageous 4-5ghz overclocks by omega and friends, but for typical use (not 2.15 vcore) I was wondering what I can get. I decided I would pair it with an Alpha PAL8942 and a Sunon 80x25 50cfm fan from SVC (any comments about this cooler and whether I should take the 900U over it?). I prefer a copper base and aluminum heatsink.
As far as memory is concerned I was looking at 2 sticks of 512 3700 2 6-2-2 DDR for a couple bucks under 200. (Why would anyone buy 2x256 3700 for 170 when they can have 2x512 for 200
).
Now here is where I need the most help, picking out a motherboard. I have done plenty of overclocking with AMD's, and I know what boards to go with, but what about P4's? I was on newegg looking through posts, and I was thinking about an Abit IC7. The only thing is, I really do not like Abit (I got 3 bad boards from them in a row with RMA's). What do you guys recommend for a motherboard? (I thinking about the P4P800 Deluxe and Abit IS7, also)
Can you change multipliers on P4 chips? Would it really matter if I put the DDR to 240MHZ and ran it 1:1 as opposed to running 240 5:4. Obviously the cpu clock and system bus would be much higher, but P4's eat up memory bandwidth, don't they? How much of a performance increase between a 240 1:1 and a 5:4 would there actually be. This is simply going to be my new gaming rig that will be paired with an overclocked 5900FX. I will not be doing any MPEG editing or whatever. I guess I will get the Abit IS7-E, I just do not feel like buying from Abit again (tech support and RMA have been horrible for me). I really do not feel like paying the extra 40$ for the p4p800, though.
I do not want to go much over the stock voltage and I have seen people getting a 2.4 to 3000 with stock voltage. If there is no real difference between a 240 1:1 and a 240 5:4 I might as well do 1:1 and not push the CPU up too high so that I can keep the vcore down.
I am going to buy another Sparkle FSP-350 (rated to 454w - I love sparkle). Will that do for an intel system (typical stuff - burner, dvd, hdd, floppy, etc)?
Hope I did not miss anything.
Thanks
Of course I am going to overclock. I was wondering if there is a specific stepping or revision that I should look for aside from the fact that it is an 800 mhz fsb processor.
Also, what are typical results for the 2.4C. I looked on VR-Zone and of course I saw all of those outrageous 4-5ghz overclocks by omega and friends, but for typical use (not 2.15 vcore) I was wondering what I can get. I decided I would pair it with an Alpha PAL8942 and a Sunon 80x25 50cfm fan from SVC (any comments about this cooler and whether I should take the 900U over it?). I prefer a copper base and aluminum heatsink.
As far as memory is concerned I was looking at 2 sticks of 512 3700 2 6-2-2 DDR for a couple bucks under 200. (Why would anyone buy 2x256 3700 for 170 when they can have 2x512 for 200
).Now here is where I need the most help, picking out a motherboard. I have done plenty of overclocking with AMD's, and I know what boards to go with, but what about P4's? I was on newegg looking through posts, and I was thinking about an Abit IC7. The only thing is, I really do not like Abit (I got 3 bad boards from them in a row with RMA's). What do you guys recommend for a motherboard? (I thinking about the P4P800 Deluxe and Abit IS7, also)
Can you change multipliers on P4 chips? Would it really matter if I put the DDR to 240MHZ and ran it 1:1 as opposed to running 240 5:4. Obviously the cpu clock and system bus would be much higher, but P4's eat up memory bandwidth, don't they? How much of a performance increase between a 240 1:1 and a 5:4 would there actually be. This is simply going to be my new gaming rig that will be paired with an overclocked 5900FX. I will not be doing any MPEG editing or whatever. I guess I will get the Abit IS7-E, I just do not feel like buying from Abit again (tech support and RMA have been horrible for me). I really do not feel like paying the extra 40$ for the p4p800, though.
I do not want to go much over the stock voltage and I have seen people getting a 2.4 to 3000 with stock voltage. If there is no real difference between a 240 1:1 and a 240 5:4 I might as well do 1:1 and not push the CPU up too high so that I can keep the vcore down.
I am going to buy another Sparkle FSP-350 (rated to 454w - I love sparkle). Will that do for an intel system (typical stuff - burner, dvd, hdd, floppy, etc)?
Hope I did not miss anything.
Thanks
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