Overclocking a P3.. Benefits?

[Johnbear007]

I have a P3 800 in my wifes system right now.. Its got a western digital 80GB SE 8 MB cache HDD, 64MB Radeon VIVO (I know its old ) 640 MB of PC133

I just slapped an athlon XP heatsink on it when I changed it out of my system, and it seems like performance has improved slightly (I think the dinky heatsink it came with was not sufficient) Anyway, I can push it up to 930 MHZ easily (thats as far as the board will go) and everything seems stable.

My question is, is the overclock worth the risk, will that 130MHZ make much of a difference on a P3? (Im irking every bit of life out of this system that I can)

She basicaly just plays Neverwinter nights and some warcraft 3... does anyone think that the OC will bosst performance enough to make it worth it?

 

[MDE]

Well, 130 MHz is a 16% raw clock speed boost, plus the memory bandwidth gained too. I'd say it would probably be noticeable for gaming. Have her play without telling her it's overclocked and see if she notices anything. The video card is another thing to look at and possibly upgrade (Ti4200 for ~$100 would be a HUGE boost, even a 64MB version)

 

[Sid59]

worth it? depends if you have cash to replace the equipment.

 

[0roo0roo]

back in the day people would be happy with that overclock. p3'sdidn't oc much. only tually's did

 

[Electrode]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
back in the day people would be happy with that overclock. p3'sdidn't oc much. only tually's did

Obviously, you never heard about my P3 CuMine 866 @ 1.2 GHz.

 

[NEWKILLA]

or my 550e @826

600e@900

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800@1.2

the key to O/Cing p-3s was a good cooler and a good mobo--be6 - 11 or the p3v4x

slot one loven at its finast


KILLLLLLAAAAAAAA

 

[Johnbear007]

Originally posted by: MonkeyDriveExpress
Well, 130 MHz is a 16% raw clock speed boost, plus the memory bandwidth gained too. I'd say it would probably be noticeable for gaming. Have her play without telling her it's overclocked and see if she notices anything. The video card is another thing to look at and possibly upgrade (Ti4200 for ~$100 would be a HUGE boost, even a 64MB version)

I'm running an 8500 128MB right now in my system and when that gets upgraded she will get it, so the radeon will get replaced eventually (as soon as I can afford it)

Im not too worried about the hardware most of it dying would just give me an excuse to upgrade and give her my system

The only thing I dont want to harm is the hard drive, how much of a danger is the OC to the hard drive?

 

[chilled]

My PIII-866 only did 956MHz on a 147MHz FSB, but that was with generic PC133 CL3 and a mobo using Via's Apollo Pro 133A...

 

[Johnbear007]

Originally posted by: chilled
My PIII-866 only did 956MHz on a 147MHz FSB, but that was with generic PC133 CL3 and a mobo using Via's Apollo Pro 133A...

Thats the chipset i'm using right now I believe. It was originally purchased for a celery 366 @ 550 but now it has the p3 800 on a converter. Works well, I've gotten alot of use for my money out of that board. I think its a soyo

Anyway, will OCing affect my hard drive at all?

 

[MercenaryForHire]

If that's an 800/100FSB, clock the crap out of that thing.

- M4H

 

[Johnbear007]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
If that's an 800/100FSB, clock the crap out of that thing.

- M4H

It is an 800 / 100fsb Is that a Tualitan? <sp>?

I will give it some more OC juice.

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: Johnbear007

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
If that's an 800/100FSB, clock the crap out of that thing.

- M4H

It is an 800 / 100fsb Is that a Tualitan? <sp>?

I will give it some more OC juice.

tuallies start at 1.1ghz

 

[sparkyclarky]

My PIII-E 650 did 933 smooth, but when I upped the system to 384 on the RAM, I had to drop it down to 866. This was on a MSI-6309 (awesome board at the time) with the stock Intel heatsink. The system is still going strong over at a family friend's place. So yeah, PIII overclocking was great and really easy IMO.