Is 44^C a good full load temp for a P4C 2.4 OC'ed to 2.65?

[Bateluer]

???

I am considering getting a new cooler for it, but I have not narrowed it down yet. Damn P4 coolers are so complicated.

 

[m1ke101]

not a bad temp, but I bet you can definitely push that cpu more.

 

[Bateluer]

I took it up to 3Ghz, on a 250Mhz FSB and tested it with two instances of Prime95, and it crashed a few seconds after I started the second instance. I'll play more with it this weekend, but I wish to put a better cooler on it before I attempt to increase the Vcore at all. Right now its on stock cooling.

 

[Peter D]

there's lots of good coolers out there

the U versions of the SLK series are great (900U, 800U <-- not sure if that fits P4 as well), alpha pal 8942,etc etc

 

[lchyi]

That temp's excellent. Yea, try for an SLK-800u or 900u, if they're too pricey get an SK-7. You should squeeze a little more mhz with those and some AS3.

 

[Bateluer]

I had an SK6 over a year ago on a celeron.

Out of curiousity, do these coolers attack to the socket in the same the stock cooler does? I've been out of the loop for a year, just getting back into it.

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

make sure to turn off any GAT or PAT settings and make have the ratios are 5:4. You should be able to get it up to 3.2Ghz with little to no problems. ( I bumped my voltage to 1.65 to get it stable at 3.24Ghz)

 

[Bateluer]

Is the increase in proc clock speed enough to offset the slower RAM?

 

[IsOs]

I had to lower my speed with my P4, from 220 to 210. Even at 210, my temp is still 57c , MSI 6758

 

[stevejst]

I am running it stable on 234x12 with PC3500 memory 1:1 and my temperatures now are about the same as yours Bateleur, using fairly quiet Zalman. Talking now from ACed room, 22-23C.

Damn P4 coolers are so complicated.

Really? I find them much simpler to work with than AMD screwdriver forcing and motherboard banging.

 

[Bateluer]

I bumped my FSB speed up to 235, and dialed down the memory speeds. The RAM is running at 156Mhz right now, if I remember correctly. So the overall CPU clock is now 2.83, with the temps still at 44^C full load.

Those P4 coolers from Globalwin and Alpha look like they have similar retention brackets to the socket A coolers.

 

[orion7144]

If you are running an Abit board the temps read higher than normal. Also we need to know the type of mb you are using. You should be able to hit 250mhz easy with that setup. On your GAT settings make sure the last two settings are set to disabled.

And if you are using the retail HSF that is fine. I tried the Zalman and it only changed 1-2 degrees so I sent it back.

 

[Bateluer]

This is an Asus P4P800 Deluxe, good solid board. What do you mean be GAT? You mean the Asus PAT 'hack' on the 865 based mobo?

 

[Bateluer]

I pushed for 3Ghz this morning. 4x250. The RAM speeds were auto set to 166mhz, and I turned down Asus's Memory Acceleration Mode. It booted into windows just fine, completed a few Sandra benchmarks, and took 15minutes of two instances of Prime95 and Seti@home all running at the same time.

Edit - But Asus PC Probe still gives a full load temp of 44^C, after running Seti and Prime95 for 30mins. The Real Time Clocker monitor reveals that the clock freq is holding steady at 3Ghz.

 

[mt3580]

even with stock cooler, you can push that chip at 250fsb @ 320mhz ram. at the end you get 3Ghz and DDR at 400mhz.

 

[crims0n]

Mine runs at 44c full load OC'd to 3Ghz 250FSB

37 Idle

Swiftech MCX4000

Infact the chip runs at the same temps at 2.4Ghz