HELP WITH A 2.4 (A?!?!) OVERCLOCK

[otispunkmeyer]

i have already posted this but i never really got any helpfull suggestions

first i will outline the system i have

case is a chenbro gaming bomb

Pentium 4 2.4Ghz with a 400Mhz FSB and is multiplier LOCKED(dunno bout willamete or northwood....but im guessin A=400, B=533 and C=800 yes?)

this is cooled by a thermaltake SubZero 4G themo-electric peltier cooling system

there is 768Mb of samsung RD RAM (pc800) with Heat spreaders
the motherboard is a Gigabyte P4 Titan GA-8ITXE
and a Radeon 9500pro occupies the AGP

there is a 400watt PSU....from QTEC its a dual fan job
on teh cooling front there is a 80mm front case fan blowing directly over the HDD, then there is a PCI system blower and a 120mm rear case fan

how far can i expect to go.........i hear RD ram is very scalable, indeed i have seen the exact same ram i have go all the way to pc1066 and be fine. not sure bout timings and, AGP locks or anything as i expect to have to play with the FSB as the cpu is locked and the board only does a 24x multiplier anyway (24x100=2.4Ghz)

 

[myocardia]

Well, you seem to have a fairly overclockable system, although 2.4A's aren't known for their overclocking prowess, like the 2.4C's are. Just start raising your fsb until it starts to become unstable. Once it starts to become unstable, you can either back off on your overclock, or raise your vcore (processor voltage) in the bios. That usually will make an overclock that wasn't quite stable become stable, but that will require testing by you to make sure it's completely stable (Prime95 torture test is used by most of us around here to make sure that our overclocks are completely stable). Good luck.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

right jus had a quick check..CPU-Z says its a northwood on a 0.13 core

jus upped the FSB to 110mhz.....so the ram is at 440mhz(PC880) and the cpu is now at 2.64Ghz
temps stayin round 35 -40 degrees......and system is constant 34-35 degrees

the vcore is only 1.45 and the mobo will allow me to use 133.33mhz FSB....so is their a chance that i could bumb up the vcore abit to say 1.5....or 1.55 volts and use 133.33 fsb? not sure what this is doin to the PCI and AGP slots tho.