Intel P4 2.4, 512K 533 FSB Boxed $189

[iwearnosox]

P4 for less. I hate Fry's. Cats R00l.

 

[Maverick215]

seems like a good deal, I always get FAST shipping from them.
just remember not much room for oc'ing realistically
you're looking at like 150fsb? unless you're a total ocnut and have the board/components that are really needed for over 150
so you'll top at what 2700?

 

[drewdogg808]

damn..nice price...anyone know how high these will overclock? anyone with one of these?

 

[Technogeek]

Google Gear has it for 189.50 Shipped

 

[Fallengod]

This isnt really a "hot deal" but its a good to mention. $189 is about how much they cost now, and intel just cut prices so all of the cpu's should be dropping even more soon. I would wait a month or two.

 

[deeznuts]

Originally posted by: Maverick215
seems like a good deal, I always get FAST shipping from them.
just remember not much room for oc'ing realistically
you're looking at like 150fsb? unless you're a total ocnut and have the board/components that are really needed for over 150
so you'll top at what 2700?

don't know what you are saying. 150 fsb would be 3.75GHz.

seen 3 Ghz on stock voltage.

 

[ViperV990]

don't know what you are saying. 150 fsb would be 3.75GHz.

seen 3 Ghz on stock voltage.

Eh, it's a 533FSB CPU.

 

[fyleow]

I have a late October pack date 2.4B. Running at 1.85 volts it is not stable at 3 ghz and this is with water cooling. 2.26 or 2.53 is much better IMO or C1 stepping 2.5. Just wait for te C1

 

[Ogewo]

C1 stepping P4s are out already, yes?

 

[spokes]

What's the difference between C1 and other stepping?

 

[paulieside]

a decent deal

 

[NauTiKa128]

Does anyone have a good link to how overclocking works?? I'm dying to learn..

 

[Maverick215]

Originally posted by: deeznuts

Originally posted by: Maverick215
seems like a good deal, I always get FAST shipping from them.
just remember not much room for oc'ing realistically
you're looking at like 150fsb? unless you're a total ocnut and have the board/components that are really needed for over 150
so you'll top at what 2700?

don't know what you are saying. 150 fsb would be 3.75GHz.

seen 3 Ghz on stock voltage.

sorry I should have been more clear
this chip is 533Mhz FSB but it's quad pumped so if you will it runs at 133fsb
so if we take it up to 150 then you're talking 600 quadpumped
since all we're doing is changing fsb we can make it easy to see by
2400/533=4.5
4.5 is our effective multiplier
so
4.5*600=2700
please someone do correct me if I'm wrong... I have been up rather late

 

[Kovie]

You are getting it a bit mixed up. The 400 and 533 bus speeds are between the processor and the MCH. Internally the processor runs at the multiplier times 100 or 133 depending on the chip. This one for instance runs 19*133 to get 2.53Ghz. Much the same for the Athlon except that processor runs 266 between the processor and northbridge, and DDR memory being 100 or 133mhz but using the rising and falling edges of a cycle to make its effective bandwidth 200 or 266mhz (P4 bus uses the rising, falling, and in-between edges making it 4X instead of 2X.)

The easy way to explain overclocking of a P4 is that you just raise its bus speed to what you wish, and since the multiplier is locked at a certain number, it will always be that number times whatever speed you set it at. For instance, 3.0ghz on this chip you would set the bus to 158mhz (158*19=3002). Of course, if you change the bus speed then the agp/pci busses will be out of sync unless its on a board that can lock those (too tired to explain this aspect). It may want more voltage, it may want less heat, it may want lower fsb settings, or better memory, or it may want a lot of things, but Im sure there are guides that go more into it than this.

 

[Dug]

C1 stepping P4s are out already, yes

Only the 2.5, 2.6, 2.8 have C1 stepping right now.

It won't be for awhile till you see it in the other chips.

The 2.0, 2.26, 2.4, 2.53 all seem to overlcock to 2.8-2.85 with a few hitting 3Ghz.

If you are set on a 2.4 I would recommend a 100fsb version though.

 

[spokes]

Would someone please explain the significance of C1 stepping please?

 

[Technogeek]

Google search results for C1-Stepping

 

[iwearnosox]

Nevermind.