My final P4 Overclocking results (Benchies too)!

[SpeedFreak03]

I finally got around to overclocking my P4 on christmas and yesterday. Anyway, it has been at 100% load (Prime95, SETI@Home, 17 or bust, SuperPi@32M, and chessbrain all at once) for 48 hours, so I declare it stable. I ran some Memtest and it did fine (2 passes of standard testing). I got it at 240MHz CPU FSB, 5:4 Divider (192.1MHz), which is 3120MHz on stock voltage and stock cooling (full load temp never goes over 50C). OK heres the Sandra 2004 benchmarks:

Dhrystone (before) - 7868 MIPS, after = 9504 MIPs
Whetstone (before) - 3232/5858 MFLOPS, after = 3879/6915 MFLOPS

Im gonna go run 3DMark 2001SE Build 330, and 3DMark 2003 Build 340 and ill report back. But do these Sandra benchies look good for my specs?

ASUS P4P800 Deluxe
P4 2.6C @ 3120MHz
Kingston HyperX PC3200 2x512MB (dual channel)
GeForce4 Ti4200 AGP8X 128MB DDR (Chaintech GX-21)

-Josh

 

[Jeff7181]

I don't put too much faith in Sandra scores... but either way, your video card will limit the performance in 3DMark.

 

[SpeedFreak03]

Well I ran 3DMark 2001 and I got 11859. Is this good for my setup? I realize the GF4 Ti4200 is a bottleneck, but I don't play many games, and for the games I play (NFS Underground, BF1942) I can run them at 1280x1024 at high detail with no problems or slowdowns, so its fine for me.

-Josh

 

[Acanthus]

nice speedy rig gratz.

 

[stardust]

Overclocking abilities differ greatly and I would say your OC is definitely a good one, but more than many 2.6C chips have gone +250fsb.

I have a funny feeling that if you can somehow get SiSandra to detect a faster speed of your CPU than it actually is, you may have a better score. It seems that program is purely theoretical speed without too much multithreaded stress that "normal" applications generate.

Anyway, last time i used SiSandra was when I had my 2.6C @ 3.33ghz. My Dhrystone was well over 10,000, and Whetsone in the 8000 range.

I have your exact motherboard, and I am running 1:1 dividers on OCZ PC4000 Dual Channel Gold.

 

[SpeedFreak03]

When I go over 240, no matter what voltage, Prime95 crashes. I have tried tons of things, from memory timings to VDIMM voltage and I just figure that I hit a wall. I know most can do better, but Im perfectly happy with it, my old computer was an Athlon 850MHz so its a huge improvement. If my buddy gets me to upgrade his box (he tried mine and hes jelous), Ill swap chips with him and try again.

-Josh

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: SpeedFreak03
When I go over 240, no matter what voltage, Prime95 crashes. I have tried tons of things, from memory timings to VDIMM voltage and I just figure that I hit a wall. I know most can do better, but Im perfectly happy with it, my old computer was an Athlon 850MHz so its a huge improvement. If my buddy gets me to upgrade his box (he tried mine and hes jelous), Ill swap chips with him and try again.

-Josh

Awesome, if you're happy with it, that's all that counts. BTW... that's a decent score for that Ti4200... can't get much higher than that without overclocking it.

 

[SpeedFreak03]

Yea its unbeliveably fast to me, and it does everything i need it to do, so a hundred MHz aint gonna matter to me.

-Josh