Does a P4/2.53/533 oc well?

[BCinSC]

Can I simply drop it on an 800MHz board? It's a 19x multiplier, right? So 3.8GHz (with really good cooling)?

 

[SuperStrokey]

maybe wiht like LN2, the mobo will keep it at its 533 fsb and you could oc from there. I wouldnt expect much over 2.9 ghz though.

 

[BCinSC]

Well, I've got 2 P4/2.53/533, one 2.4B and one 2.4C. What should overclock and roughly how high?

Happily OCing a Barton 2500+ to 3200+ levels. Have a P3/450 oc'd at 504 (limited by onboard SCSI) and a Celery 300A at 450.

Do Dell, Compaq, HP motherboard have ANY means of OCing?

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: BCinSC
Well, I've got 2 P4/2.53/533, one 2.4B and one 2.4C. What should overclock and roughly how high?

Happily OCing a Barton 2500+ to 3200+ levels. Have a P3/450 oc'd at 504 (limited by onboard SCSI) and a Celery 300A at 450.

Do Dell, Compaq, HP motherboard have ANY means of OCing?

Dell, Compaq, HP motherboards have BIOSes specifically written to not allow you to overclock them. And, of the 3 P4's you have, the one that's going to overclock the highest is going to be the 2.4C. With a good Abit or Asus board, they can go as high as 3.6ghz. The 2.53B (what you have) is supposed to be one of the worst overclocking chips Intel has ever made, but the 2.4C is supposed to be one of the best OCing chips they've made to date.

 

[BCinSC]

What about a 2.4B? I've got one of those, too.

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: BCinSC
What about a 2.4B? I've got one of those, too.

Well, a couple of people have gotten them up to around 3.5ghz, but not nearly as many as with the 2.4C's. Plus, remember that you're also getting hyperthreading with the P4C's. That's worth buying a new motherboard to get, assuming the board you have the 2.4C on doesn't support it.

 

[BCinSC]

Dell PowerEdge 400SC with 875P chipset does support HT and 800FSB. Is there any way to circumvent default BIOS for OCing?

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: BCinSC
Dell PowerEdge 400SC with 875P chipset does support HT and 800FSB. Is there any way to circumvent default BIOS for OCing?

Sure, all you gotta do is write your own BIOS and flash it

 

[BCinSC]

Thus the question is, given that far exceeds my skill, has anyone else done it?

 

[myocardia]

The only way that I know of to overclock a Dell is with ClockGen, a Windows-based overclocking utility. Here's the link.

 

[BCinSC]

Looks cool, but nothing for Dell specifically, unless you know something about who manufactures their boards...

 

[MDE]

Originally posted by: BCinSC
Looks cool, but nothing for Dell specifically, unless you know something about who manufactures their boards...

Most likely Intel.

 

[Stormgiant]

Originally posted by: myocardia
The only way that I know of to overclock a Dell is with ClockGen, a Windows-based overclocking utility. Here's the link.

Great link... thanks for the link.
Was trying to get a good software to work with my asus within windows.
Works great