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Going for 1.6A
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gunf1ghter
Golden Member
No matter what anyone here tries to tell you, there is no surefire guarenteed recipe for success when overclocking any CPU. Although the 1.6A is very overclockable (I have overclocked several) it is still possible that no matter what you try you will get a CPU that simply refuses to overclock ... another possibility is that you will get a CPU that appears to overclock but will have stability problems.
My 1.6a ran at 2.13 gigahertz quite well but I would have the occassional lockup when CPU hit 100% (even though it ran prime95 for 24 straight hours, go figure). I also found a weird problem playing heroes 4 where the game would continue to run at the overclocked speed but the sound would degenerate till I finally had to exit the game and re-start it. I spent a lot of time tweaking this setup and just could not get it to fly. I am 90% sure that the problem is that I simply got a CPU that was not capable of running at those speeds. I had similar poor luck about 4-5 years ago with the Celeron 300A. I got my hands on 6 of those CPU's and the only one which wasn't a good overclocker was the one I used in my own system rig at the time. Go figure.
Cooling should not be an issue for you if you get a retail version of the CPU. Inte'ls stock HSF setup is excellent and should easily allow for good overclocking headroom.
Overclocking does void the warranty but in general your warranty would be honored unless the manufacturer could find some obvious signs of abuse.
Now that the 133FSB is out for the P4, prices have come down a lot. You can get a retail 2.0a northwood P4 for around $200. That's a little more expensive than the 1.6A but still has plenty of overclocking headroom to potentially reach speeds of 2.66ghz air cooled. Then if you do have probs getting a stable overclock you will still have a CPU faster than nearly any T-bird system available.
I am not trying to talk you out of overclocking, but I think that in general you will hear many people who have never even touched one of these CPU's talking about how good of an overclocker it will be. Just keep in mind that there is a possibility that you will end up having to run the CPU at stock speeds for maximum stability.
My 1.6a ran at 2.13 gigahertz quite well but I would have the occassional lockup when CPU hit 100% (even though it ran prime95 for 24 straight hours, go figure). I also found a weird problem playing heroes 4 where the game would continue to run at the overclocked speed but the sound would degenerate till I finally had to exit the game and re-start it. I spent a lot of time tweaking this setup and just could not get it to fly. I am 90% sure that the problem is that I simply got a CPU that was not capable of running at those speeds. I had similar poor luck about 4-5 years ago with the Celeron 300A. I got my hands on 6 of those CPU's and the only one which wasn't a good overclocker was the one I used in my own system rig at the time. Go figure.
Cooling should not be an issue for you if you get a retail version of the CPU. Inte'ls stock HSF setup is excellent and should easily allow for good overclocking headroom.
Overclocking does void the warranty but in general your warranty would be honored unless the manufacturer could find some obvious signs of abuse.
Now that the 133FSB is out for the P4, prices have come down a lot. You can get a retail 2.0a northwood P4 for around $200. That's a little more expensive than the 1.6A but still has plenty of overclocking headroom to potentially reach speeds of 2.66ghz air cooled. Then if you do have probs getting a stable overclock you will still have a CPU faster than nearly any T-bird system available.
I am not trying to talk you out of overclocking, but I think that in general you will hear many people who have never even touched one of these CPU's talking about how good of an overclocker it will be. Just keep in mind that there is a possibility that you will end up having to run the CPU at stock speeds for maximum stability.
You can get a retail 2.0a northwood P4 for around $200. That's a little more expensive than the 1.6A but still has plenty of overclocking headroom to potentially reach speeds of 2.66ghz air cooled.
Seriously? I just ordered a 2.0A and 512 mb of pc800 rdram on the Abit Th7II-raid motherboard, will I be able to overclock that much ?
Seriously? I just ordered a 2.0A and 512 mb of pc800 rdram on the Abit Th7II-raid motherboard, will I be able to overclock that much ?
Mavrick007
Diamond Member
Originally posted by: subxeon
You can get a retail 2.0a northwood P4 for around $200. That's a little more expensive than the 1.6A but still has plenty of overclocking headroom to potentially reach speeds of 2.66ghz air cooled.
Seriously? I just ordered a 2.0A and 512 mb of pc800 rdram on the Abit Th7II-raid motherboard, will I be able to overclock that much ?
You might be able to overclock that high, it just depends how good that particular board (not the model) is and how much the cpu will go. That would only be a 33mhz overclock to take your fsb to 133x4 = 533fsb like the new "b" cpus will do. If you can get it that high then you will have a sweet machine, but however you look it will still be not too bad at all.
gunf1ghter
Golden Member
I think that 2.2 or 2.3 is pretty reasonable, it would depend on how your motherboard does with locking the AGP/PCI ratios.