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Extreme Pentium 4 FSB/RAM Overclocking @ Firing Squad

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damocles

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Anand touched on this during his 2Ghz P4 review. The Firing Squad review is just an indication of things to come, but it makes a good read

As you can see in our test results, the faster bus speed basically buys the Pentium 4 the equivalent of a 200MHz clock speed boost once the system is also equipped with 1066MHz RDRAM. In our tests, this essentially results in a 9% performance improvement. Keep in mind that this is a very rough figure as our video card was overclocked and therefore running out of spec. This figure also varies from application to application, and is only valid for our results at 1.6GHz. By the time 533MHz systems are commercially available Pentium 4 processors will be running well in excess of 2GHz, therefore the gap between 400MHz and 533MHz systems should be a little larger
 
Yes & if the heatsink happens to fall off your cpu is still good.😉

Yes, I saw Tom's article today. The clock throttling technology on the Pentium4 is an excellent piece of technology. AMD are way behind Intel when it comes to thermal protection.

I had hoped that the Palomino would be at least as good as the P3 but alas, it wasn't.
 


<< How many times has your fan died then your heatsink fell off? >>



It would only take 1 time for me to get pissed off.🙁
 
Now why would your heatsink fall off? Because your system has so many fans it started flying around the room?
 


<< Now why would your heatsink fall off? Because your system has so many fans it started flying around the room? >>


rotflmao
 


<< With its larger L2 cache, Northwood would likely benefit more from a bus speed increase than today's Pentium 4 processors. >>



I'd say the opposite is true, right?
 


<< << With its larger L2 cache, Northwood would likely benefit more from a bus speed increase than today's Pentium 4 processors. >>
I'd say the opposite is true, right? >>



Yeah, if anything the L2 Cache will lessen fsb traffic.
 
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