Overclocking a Willamette P4

[imported_RobJ]

I'm building an AMD939 system, and wanted to do something with my old Dell. So i thought it would be fun if I ripped out the following components and paired them with a new case/power/cooling/motherboard for some overclocking (just for fun). If it works out, I could give it to one of my family members, or use it as a server.

the components i'd salvage are:

1.8 GHz Willamette P4, Socket 478, 256K L2, 180nm, 400MHz bus
7200 RPM WD 80-gig
GeForce3 64mb
TurtleBeach Santa Cruise 5.1 sound card
CD and DVD drive

I'd prolly have to do away with the ram because it is RD-Ram and most motherboards only have DDR nowadays.

Does anyone have a suggestion of motherboard in the $50-100 range? What I'm not sure of is if all of the new socket 478 motherboards made for northwoods and prescotts will work with my Willamette.

Also, can i salvage my 512mb of ram (2 dimms)?

 

[Stormgiant]

Try to get a used RIMM board.

There should be many on the sales forum.

 

[RalfHutter]

Those Willamettes were pretty poor OCers. You'd be lucky to get a10% OC out of it. I don't think it'd be worth the time and trouble to even try.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: RalfHutter
Those Willamettes were pretty poor OCers. You'd be lucky to get a10% OC out of it. I don't think it'd be worth the time and trouble to even try.

I agree, even if you do get a better overclock it'll still be a willy, and that ain't good 😛 Just take the Dell as is and use it as a server, give it to someone that needs a solid system, or sell the whole thing outright.

 

[SinfulWeeper]

Agreed, those willies sucked, just keep the Dell the way it is.
Though my 1.8 did hit 138fsb on a BE7-R... which involved taking off the IHS. Otherwise it would only hit 134 stable, even then it was still slow.

 

[imported_RobJ]

Thanks you guys for the advice. I'll just leave it as is. 🙂

 

[IQJUMPuw]

urgh... I have a 1.7GHz Willy... well it's my bro's... anyways, I tried overclocking it with a stock hsf and the CPU died. Intel sent us the new one after few weeks though.