i searched but didnt find...how to overclock p4?

[MrDudeMan]

i looked around but didnt see much...i dont know how to do it.

is there a guide or can someone explain it to me?

and also i want to know how to increase FSB and voltage etc. to make the ram and cpu AFAP without damaging either of them or hurting anything in the PCI/AGP bus.

help please =)

 

[Duvie]

Tell me what your board is??? What speed chip do you have??? Northwood? What type of memory? What are you using for heatsink/fan and thermal paste..

 

[MrDudeMan]

p4 1.6a or 2.0a
TH7-II
PC800 Samsung (supposedly unofficial pc1066, right?)
ASIII
Alpha pal 8942 w/ 50cfm sunon

 

[Duvie]

I have seen plenty around here with that setup...look for threads aboutr rdram and northwood ocing (I have seen a few in here) then pm them for some help....

There are some things I read aboiut that you may need to be aware of. PM those ppl

....I would look at the 1.8a...maybe the best overall out of those two...1.6 is cheap but you will still have a hard time ocing the fsb up to high levels like most are getting with ddr. At 1.8 you should get to 133fsb for the pc1066 speed and have great cpui speed and great memory scores...At 2.0 ghz it is likely you will even reach pc1066 scores since it is unlikely you will get much over 120fsb....

 

[jiffylube1024]

I can't get to 133 FSB with my 1.8A with DDR memory in a P4B266 (even at 1.8V), and a lot of people with 1.8A's can't get 133 fsb. That's a 600 MHz overclock! The only really "guaranteed" 133 FSB is the 1.6A . Try a more reasonable o/c at first!

 

[Duvie]

Wow...I haven't heard that one much....

I have it at 133fsb for 2.4ghz memory is doing 333mhz with a 4:5 ratio...I am at 1.65v...my limit...I tested and it boots at 139fsb with 1.7v but not entirely stable and voltage is too high. 136fsb is stable at 1.675...

All on the Asus p4s333...

 

[MrDudeMan]

i heard the p4b266-c is great for OCing also..but with DDR i guess


i want RD though because it is better for games...2x as much memory bandwith


i just want my 1.6 or 2.0 to get at least a 600mhz overclock, so at least 2.2 or 2.6, maybe more since its very possible as far as i know

 

[Duvie]

More likely you would get it out of the 1.6....All these chips seem to have rouhly the same ceiling...uying a 2.0ghz just puts you closer to the ceiling before you start...I doubt you can get much past 120fsb with 2.0ghz chip...

 

[MrDudeMan]

i dont know about that...ive seen some people at 2.9 and 3.0...even a few at 3.1 and 3.2

i guess they had a 2.2a, but still, thats a 1gHz overclock

so the 2.0a has to be able to max out higher than the 1.6a

and as far as i know, the 1.8a sucks and clocks lower than the 1.6a...so i guess it all depends...or i could be wrong, just my observation

 

[Duvie]

Your smokin if you think they are doing that with air cooled....Many are using vapo chill or water system to get those numbers....

lets also remember many are doing this with way over the voltage many have discussed as safe...heat won't necessarily kill this thing...too much voltage can kill this thing as well...

You go ahead and get that 2.0ghz then...Then when you get over 2.6ghz you can rub my face in it...I doubt you get much past 2.4-2.5...


< and as far as i know, the 1.8a sucks and clocks lower than the 1.6a...so i guess it all depends...or i could be wrong, just my observation >

I am done talking to you...you are a moron...have you read a post around here??? These are all basically the same chip such binned down to meet market demands they all seem to be hitting close to same final speed...Doesn't it make you wonder why they came out with 2 and 2.2ghz first??? They don't all of sudden start sucking on the yields or run a different process to get lower performing chips...Yes some may actually have some duds, but what I know about intel and there fab operations they don't get this type of dramatic fluctuations in yields

My "sucky" 1.8 chip ran default voltage at 125fsb for 2,250...so it could have easily been binned as a 2.0ghz...yet I can only get 2.4ghz (that is at 1.65v) I can run 2.5ghz at 1.7v but I don't like it...I posted at 2.52ghz with 1.7v and haven't tried any further....

Just cause you can get a 800mhz oc on a 1.6ghz chip doesn't mean you will get this on a 2.0gh...ROFLMAO....

 

[MrDudeMan]

yeah you are obviously the moron, read where i said "just my observation, i could be wrong"


MANY people have told me the 1.8a is a total waste of money, so maybe you are the moron for buying it


i dont think you can get those numbers with air cooling, i wasnt planning on it, i just said its possible

i know voltage can kill them as well as heat, maybe you should remove your head from your ass and not be such a prick, i started this post to get help, not to be called a moron and i dont need people like you telling me that

people like kenaf who know what they are talking about should be the ones posting in here, not those of you who set out to degrade others for misunderstanding and having a question about it

and go ahead ROFLMAO all over yourself...no one else laughed

edit sorry for that flame right there, i just dont appreciate being called a moron for misunderstanding, thats just what i heard

i still dont know how to overclock it, can anyone help

 

[nvektus]

My 1.8A refuses to hit 133x fsb no matter what voltage on a p4b266. It's only stable at 2200Mhz

 

[Duvie]

Wow!!! I am starting to consider myself severely lucky...A cupole weeks back before I bought mine many only got the 1.8's and were hitting the high speeds...I could run mine at 2.2 at default voltage and the msi board was syaing it was only delivering 1.44v when it was supposed to be giving 1.5v....

What kid of things are you running into??? you know it is not the memory or the PS not able to give it enough juice...


Mrdudeman...I apologize for the hasty remarks...and you are right...I wish I did get the 1.6 and maybe get the fsb higher to work with these kingmax 5ns pc2700 ddr...Like I said when I ordered the big rush for 1.6's hadn't happened and the reports weren't really in yet...There wasn't even talk of costa rica chips when I bought, so I may have a really early 1.8....

I am running a sis chipset but I doubt the mobo is probably the limiting factor....

 

[tenest]

i'm problems overclocking my 1.6a (see here) and would love to see a guide or "how-to" like MrDudeMan asked for

 

[RalfHutter]

The highest STABLE clock I've been able to get my 1.8A (Malay, SL63X, packed 12-26-01) to is 130FSB. This is on an Asus P4B266, retail HSF, Kingmax 2 x 256 PC2700 5ns RAM. Tried up to 1.65 Vcore (1.59+ in MBM), tried RAM at 1:1 and 3:4. I run it normally at 125 FSB, 3:4 Memory, Turbo 1. It's stable here running Prime95 for 12+ hrs.

There doesn't seem to be nearly as many people that can get this chip to 133FSB as compared to the 1.6A. If I had to do it over again I'd get a 1.6A. I got this 1.8A right at the start of all this fun stuff so there wasn't any database of OC's to look at. Now there is and it seems that the 1.6A is the clear winner for OCing. Just my 2 cents, YMMV.

 

[MrDudeMan]

thanks for the link tenest, thats what i was looking for

duvie sorry for being mean, i forgive you for calling me a moron, i guess i deserved it anyhow

ralf, that is what i meant to say in the first place, you just worded it better