I need to overclock my P3 1ghz

[Serp86]

Hi.

I just got myself a brand new Radeon 9700 and frames are really flying when compared to my old GF2 mx 400. Trouble is, my pc is too slow 4 it and i can only manage 7500 3d marks on 3dMark 2001se.

Can anyone tell me how to overclock my pentium 3 pro (socket 370) which is on board a chaintech CT6AJA mainboard. I have Award BIOS.

Thank you all

 

[Thor86]

Not gonna happen. Get yerself a P4.

 

[Mardeth]

"Not going to happen"? Arent you a little too pessimist?

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

Originally posted by: Thor86
Not gonna happen. Get yerself a P4.

Yes there was overclocking before the P4s

 

[rogue1979]

Pentium III's can overclock, but the older steppings won't go very high. Since going for a P4 would mean a new motherboard, why not just go the AMD route. $53 XP1600+ AGOIA and a refurbished socket A DDR board from newegg for $39 shipped. $92 total for 1800MHz of true cpu performance. Throw in a 256MB of PC2100 for $45 and you are still cheaper than a Northwood 1.6a cpu alone. If you are looking for true gaming performance and nothing else, don't waste your money on DDR 400MHz components. Other than emptying your wallet, this will only raise your 3DMark2001 score. Won't do jack for games!

 

[Serp86]

oh - you are propably right.

In case you were wondering why i got a radeon 9700 instead of upgrading processor 4 half price - my dad brought it to me.

I am still 16 and my budget isn't so big to allow me to upgrade processors. Thanks to you all.


P.S. Do you think 75003dmarks are enough for a p3 1ghz, radeon 9700, and 256mb 133mhz ram?

 

[bacillus]

is your p3 a 100 or 133fsb version?

 

[oldfart]

I'm not familiar with that mobo. If it can overclock, and it is a 133 FSB PIII, you can bump the FSB up to 150 MHz, that will get you to 1125 MHz. Your ram will need to be fairly decent to hand this speed. Not a huge increase, but every little bit helps.

 

[obeseotron]

If it isn't one of the new .13 micron p3's it won't overclock at all. There is a reason intel recalled the 1.13Ghz P3's on the .18 process. There is zero headroom above 1Ghz. 1050 or 1100 might be possible with the .18. The newer .13's will likely go up to 1400 or so.

 

[mechBgon]

1GHz plus a Radeon 9700 is certainly enough to terrorize your friends in UT2003, if you're a good player.

 

[Pink0]

Not with that 3d mark score. My GF3ti200 scores higher than that!

What you need to do is give me that video card and I'll send you this ti200 which is better suited to your system. This way you remove the bottleneck!

 

[fluxquantum]

Originally posted by: Pink0
Not with that 3d mark score. My GF3ti200 scores higher than that!

What you need to do is give me that video card and I'll send you this ti200 which is better suited to your system. This way you remove the bottleneck!

LOL!!

 

[oldfart]

If it isn't one of the new .13 micron p3's it won't overclock at all. There is a reason intel recalled the 1.13Ghz P3's on the .18 process. There is zero headroom above 1Ghz. 1050 or 1100 might be possible with the .18. The newer .13's will likely go up to 1400 or so.

Thats nonsense. Yeah, the very early 1.13 steppings were recalled. The later CD0 steppings are able to run that speed easily on default Vcore. I had a couple of them running 150 FSB, 1125 MHz on stock Vcore. They will go farther if you have ram that will go past 150 FSB. I've seen people run them in the 1200 - 1300 range as well.

 

[rogue1979]

cDO stepping Coppermines can definately reach 1200-1300MHz. Some of the older steppings are limited to 1000-1050MHz.

 

[AkumaX]

Originally posted by: rogue1979
cDO stepping Coppermines can definately reach 1200-1300MHz. Some of the older steppings are limited to 1000-1050MHz.

 

[bacillus]

my 100fsb version is running happily @1.24GHz!

 

[kadajawi]

no matter how high you overclock your P3... you will never be able to reach a point where CPU fits to GPU. Simple. Well... except you get the P3 to lets say 2 gig (uhm... with liquid nitrogen it may be possible ). Instead, ask your dad for the extra cash for the new board, RAM and CPU, as rogue calculated it would be around $130-140 (but the CPU would still not be a real partner for the graphics card... that would be a P4 3.6 I guess ). Your old components can be sold again (eBay etc.), they are not THAT bad and old, so they should still bring in some money. I mean, if your dad can give you a 9700... he might aswell add the <$100 to make the rest of the system fit. Or he can return the 9700 for a GF4Ti4200 PLUS Athlon XP, board and RAM. And still have some money left over I guess. And that system would definately be faster than you current combo.

P.S. Do you think 75003dmarks are enough for a p3 1ghz, radeon 9700, and 256mb 133mhz ram?

How do we know??? No one has been insane enough to try that

 

[boyRacer]

I got a P3 1Ghz to 1.33 @ at whopping 1.90-1.95v which is a wee bit too high for me for a 300MHz overclock... now i have a P3-S 1.26 a 1.5... i tried my brother's radeon 9700 on it... blah... pretty much the same score as an overclocked GF3 Ti500... i need a faster cpu. You may have a slow cpu now and a videocard that's too fast for it... but hey at least you got the videocard out of the way... you can start saving up for a faster CPU .

 

[Thor86]

Originally posted by: GtPrOjEcTX

Originally posted by: Thor86
Not gonna happen. Get yerself a P4.

Yes there was overclocking before the P4s

Overclocking before P4s? Really? At least your post helped the guy out.

Originally posted by: Mardeth
"Not going to happen"? Arent you a little too pessimist?

Not being pessimistic, just realistic. A whole whopping 250 mhz overclock on a p3 (even if you could do it) wouldn't benefit for the ATI Radeon 9700 and still be a bottle neck in the system.