Need Opinion: Asus P4PE mobo and Intel P4 3Ghz HT 800FSB

[Poohbee]

I'm planning to build an HTPC and was going to swap out my current cpu (p4 2.53ghz northwood) and keep my current motherboard (ASus P4PE) and buy an Intel P4 3.0ghz Hyperthreading, 800 FSB CPU. I was wondering what kinds of overclocking would I see if i put in a new CPU, namely the p4 3.0ghz prescott with HT and 800 FSB or should I go with something different? Will there be a Heat problem, since I heard that prescotts give off ALOT of heat. My cpu right now ranges from 42C-50C.


Here is my current config:

Asus P4PE motherboard
Intel P4 2.53ghz northwood
Corsair Value ram 1 gig
Antec 480watt PSu
Geforce 4400 video card
Six internal Hard drives (5 x 120gig, 1 x 60gig)
1 dvd writer
1 dvd-rom

Almost forgot to mention I have an Aftermarket Heatsink/fan: Swiftech mCX 4000 with a TMD fan

 

[BillyBobJoel71]

hell yeah. i have the same 3.00E p4 prescott you are getting and damn this thing gets hot. see this thread for my recent observations on the temperature. besides that it is a super-fast processor and it crushes multi-tasking like nothing else. paired with a gig of ram and you are set to do alot of things from games to heavy spreadsheet stuff. who says the athlon 64s are better when i get 11462 in 3dmark03 and processor is fast? i do.

 

[Poohbee]

That's really weird with the crakling sound you heard when your cpu throttled down ..... weirddddddd.. You checked the cpu heatsink etc.?

Now you make me wonder if I shoudl buy that cpu or not... 65c... that's way too hot for me.. 50C is still hot too..

 

[Sentential]

If you are building a silent box your best bet is to buy Asus's CT70 Socket 479 adaptor and then buy a Pentium-M chip.

They run considerably faster and can be run damn near passive with the cooling you currentally have. Just be sure that mobo is supported with the adaptor and you have flashed the proper BIOS

 

[stevty2889]

Well the P4PE doesn't even support 800mhz FSB let alone prescotts, so you wouldn't be able to use a prescott with it anyway. The fastest CPU you can use on that board would be a 3.06ghz northwood with hyperthreading.