Food of thought for P4 NW overclockers

[XcomCheetah]

i will be a P4 NW owner pretty soon... and i also want to overclock.. i have read quite a few threads and i have seen ppl overclocking their cpu like crazy.. its good.. but i m not sure if many have increased their performance of the cpu equal to the overclock they have done... actually i think many ppl have done overclocking through increasing the FSB as far as they could take and reducing the multiplier.. and i think this doesn;t improve the performance.. like if u have i850 chipset then its better to run FSB and RAM at 125x4 rather than having FSB at 140x4 and RAM at 140x3... i think running first setup will give better overall performance than second one... but unfortunately i don;t have any hard data to prove it.. so i request all u overclockers to give the score of 3D Mark at different RAM and FSB settings. so that i can verify if my hypothesis is really correct..

Thanks
(it doesnot matter u r using i845 chipset board or i850 or even SIS 645 chipet boards)

 

[mra]

Um, nobody here has unlocked CPUs. By increasing the FSB your increase overall system performance. The speed the RAM runs at is related to the FSB, by a ratio of fsb:ram.

Sometimes it is preferable to run the fsb a little lower to get the ram stable at a high ratio.

 

[tony710]

I have the 2.0a and in 3d mark 2001 se before the overclock I got 8400 3d marks...after the overclock to 2.4 I got 9100 3dmarks. I upped the FSB to 120 and left the RDRAM multiplier at 4. Hope this helps you in some way.

My main rig:
CPU: Intel P4 2000MHz @ 2400MHz
Motherboard: Abit TH7-II Raid
Memory: 512 MB of Samsung PC800
Video Card: PNY Verto (GeForce 3 Ti500)
Hard Drives: 2 60 GB Maxtor ATA100 7200rpms running RAID 0

 

[XcomCheetah]

thanks both of u, but i like to c wot r the results if u lower ur RDRAM multiplier to 3, and increase the FSB to as far as u can go, something like 135, 140.. than wot will be the result.. (running with 135x20 will give u processor speed of 2700 which will be faster than current 2400 ) i wish ur FSB can go that high..

"Sometimes it is preferable to run the fsb a little lower to get the ram stable at a high ratio. "

thats half of wot i want.. if u can supply data of different RAM and FSB settings. like i think u have the option on P4266-C of running FSB : RAM as 1:1 or 3:4 or 4:5... if u can please supply the data of these different setttings with different processor clock speed.. so if u increase the FSB and lower the FSB:RAM ratio than ur processor speed will be higher but RAM speed will be a bit lower.. than comparing 3D Mark result will give better idea of which is better option for P4...