my intel chip is an engineering sample

[luniz978]

ASUS "P5AD2-E Premium" i925XE
Intel 3.6 chip
OCZ Performance Series 240-Pin 512MB DDR2 PC2-5400
Leadtek nVIDIA GeForce 6600GT Video Card, 128MB


my intel chip is an engineering sample...how shall i overclock it with the stuff i have...

 

[clarkey01]

Id check my temps...That 3.6 isnt the coolest of chips, and with it being an Enguneering sample ? does that mean it wasnt the finished product ? maybe it puts more heat out.

 

[luniz978]

On certain Athlon XP chips, the multiplier is adjustable. These chips are referred to as 'unlocked.' The Athlon 64 series (I believe) allows multiplier adjustment to lower multipliers only aside from the fully unlocked FX series. The Pentium 4 is locked unless you have acquired an engineering sample through some stroke of luck or ebay. However, almost all motherboards allow multiplier adjustment as long as the chip supports it. For the Athlon XP boards that don't, a pinmodding guide to raise/lower the multiplier is available in the 'workshop' section of ocinside.de/index_e.html. The site explains how to perform the modification and also has several other useful tools.


according to the guide...i guess engineering samples are unlocked and i can over clock it

 

[luniz978]

The Pentium 4 is locked unless you have acquired an engineering sample through some stroke of luck or ebay.

 

[stevty2889]

Not all the engineering samples have unlocked multipliers, and they are not neccisarly better for overclocking either, in fact my 3.2 engineering sample is a much worse overclocker than a retail 3.2. In any case if you want to overclock that 3.6, you will need very good cooling. My 3.4 is running at 74-75c under full load at 3.82ghz, with a thermalright XP-120, artic silver 5 and a 120mm fan. Thermal throttling will start to kick in at 80c. If you do happen to have unlocked multipliers, try and up the multiplier, if not you'll have to do it the standard way and up the front side bus.

 

[luniz978]

any help?

 

[gwag]

help= do it try to cahnge multiplier up or down see if its unlocked.

 

[Jeff7181]

Just go ahead and start increasing the multiplier. Although... since Pentium 4's like memory bandwidth so much, you might want to max out your RAM first, then increase the multiplier to get the highest clock speed.