Overclocking & Pentium 4's?????

[dc9mm3]

Hi all, i have right now an old system a Pentium 550E overclocked to 800 and am looking to build a new system but am confused by the new tech stuff. I will be getting a Asus P4P800E motherboard but am confused about multiplers and bus speeds. I want to use a P4 2.6C 800fsb and get it to at least 3.0 gig a hertz. What is the multiplier for a pentium 2.6 gig cpu. Am trying to figure out what i need to get the FSB speed too to get 3 gig a hertz . When i look at reveiws it appears to have an actual FSB of 200 which would make a 2.6 have a multiplier of 13 but i then see Anand getting up to about 284FSB which if am at all figuring this out at all correctly would mean he would be getting on a P42.6 cpu a speed of 3.6 gig a herts which sounds faster than i would think possable. Please some help for an old time overclcoker with the new tech stuff. Thanks

 

[nick1985]

2 threads = faster response time

 

[SpeedFreak03]

Originally posted by: nick1985
2 threads = faster response time

Its like hyperthreading!

 

[SpeedFreak03]

(no pun intended)

 

[Sunny129]

you are correct that the P4 2.6C has a multiplier of 13. and since the multiplier on an intel chip is locked, the fsb is the only way to OC one. this means the 2.6C must be running on a 231mhz fsb to run @ 3GHz. it is possible that Anand got his 2.6C to 3.7GHz using some very effective cooling. OR he has an engineering sample with an unlocked multiplier, meaning he can keep the fsb lower, and OC w/ the multiplier itself. engineering samples with unlocked multipliers are not available to consumers.