Overclocking ability of the Pentium 4 3.2E?

[Arachnotronic]

I've been thinking of upgrading my P4 2.4C @ 2.8GHz to a Pentium 4 3.2E. Now, do the Pentium 4 3.2E chips have much overclocking headroom? If they're able to reach 3.5GHz+ on air, then I think it'd be a good upgrade to my aging platform.

Does anybody here run an OC'ed 3.2E?

Thanks!

-Intel17

 

[Duvie]

The 600 series are decent and you could maybe get 3.8 with aggressive air...However that is a sckt 775...Are you need to stay sckt 478??? if so I would recommend just getting another northwood..they run cooler...

Most of the top 3.2 prescotts I have seened OC'd are the 600 series chips that had some thermal management revisions...

2.8ghz out of a 2.4c isn't that great....My 2.4c did 3.5ghz...Most hit 3ghz pretty easily...What mobo do you have???

 

[Arachnotronic]

I'd like to stay with socket 478 if I can...it'll save me the money for my next major upgrade. I wouldn't want to go to another northwood because I'd like to play with the SSE3 instruction set in the software that I write, plus it's hard to find a northwood nowadays, from what I've seen.

Yeah, I was rather disappointed when I got my 2.4C and it didn't go past 2.8 stably -- was expecting at least 3GHz. It wouldn't even get into windows at 3GHz. I'm running an Abit IS7, a fairly cheap motherboard.

 

[Duvie]

The IS7 was a decent board...I ran an IC7 Abit....

Are you able to take advanatge of the SSE3 set??? I thought it was math driven...What do you write???

If you got a 3.2e I bet you will have cooling issues rather quick and probably 3.4-3.6ghz may be your max...not much headroom....

 

[StrangerGuy]

I have a 3.0E and briefly tried overclocking to 3.6GHz on stock voltage but it wasn't stable, and overvolting it will probably melt my motherboard so I didn't even dare to try it out.

So stay with your 2.4C. Perhaps you can do 3GHz with a better mobo such as an Asus P4P800, that is, if you are mobo limited.

 

[Zebo]

Get another northwood. My 2.6 ran 3.4 easy which is faster than a 3.6 presscot. If you're lucky you should get 3.6+ capable chip which is faster than a 670. I'd search in FS forums and maybe just straight out ask.. "hey anyone got a 3.6Ghz capable northwood for sale?" Many do since many moved to the A.

 

[stevty2889]

My 2.8E got to 3.5ghz, you might get 3.6ghz if you are lucky with a 3.2E, after than, temps are going to get way outta control. My 3.4ghz prescott was even throttling at stock speeds with a thermalright XP-120. My 3.06ghz northwood@3.45ghz was faster than my prescott @3.82ghz(had to water cool it to keep it from throttling) in everything except video encoding and some meaningless synthetic benchmarks.

 

[Arachnotronic]

Well, I went ahead and bought the 3.2E, and am running it now at 3.7GHz, and I'm not even done pushing it yet :-D

 

[secretanchitman]

my 2.4C can go up to 3.6 stable via air cooling and the stock heatsink.

oooh, i see you got the 3.2E. well, good luck with that OC! im sure it can be pushed further than 3.7!

 

[Arachnotronic]

The max of this chip is 3.76 on air with the stock voltage. Will a voltage increase help my overclocking?

 

[Arachnotronic]

Well, I bumped the vcore up to 1.36 from 1.33 (the box says that the max supported voltage is 1.4, so I should be safe), and I'm now up to 3.85GHz!

There is certainly some merit to this 31 stage pipeline, if not only for the gratification from the overclock!