New to P4 overclocking. Need a little help on these decisions.

[Wildfire]

Hey all!

I have decided it might be time to upgrade my computer. The 1.6Ghz P4 Northwood has really caught my eye since everyone seems to be having such good luck overclocking it. I have spent all day finding what hardware I think I want and I just wanted to make sure I have everything right in terms of what I need (especially speed wise).

First and foremost I only plan to overclock to no more then 133Mhz FSB in order to keep all items in spec (AGP, PCI, etc). So the highest speed ram I need will only be PC2100 DDR266 (hence 133Mhz x 2). Am I correct in saying this? If I am then this is the hardware I have decided on:

-P4 1.6Ghz Northwood
-Asus P4B266
-2x Mushkin 256MB High Performance DDR SDRAM 222

How does everything look? Is the Asus board a good choice and will I have any probs keeping anything within spec (ie. does the MB supply all the multipliers and dividers I need for PCI, AGP, etc)? Let me know any opinions you have. Just to let you know I am partial to Asus MB's as I currently have the CUSL2 and it has performed better then any MB I have ever had, BUT I am open to suggestions. Thanks to all!

 

[Schmo]

You are correct in saying that you don't need anything better than PC2100 or 266MHz DDR ram to run at 133FSB. The Asus board is also a very good board based on reviews but I went with the more feature rich Gigabyte GA-8IRXP. Don't be disappointed if you can't reach the 133FSB, some people haven't been having that much luck. I have the 1.8a and can reach 2.21GHz without any weird problems at 1.6V.. past that I start getting some weird side effects. Of course this is with stock cooling and I have a sunflower coming later this week.